User blog comment:Testxyz/18/@comment-94.196.88.122-20140206191342/@comment-75.36.138.98-20140207091447

Predictions require data - only achieved by sampling --- either resulting in instant death and end of THAT dimensions instance involvement   OR through intelligently opening a teeny tiny spy-hole to see whats on the other side BEFORE - and doing that so many times to reject all the infinite wrong/useless ones. Plasma at millions of psi and millions of degrees from inside a star are still far more likely (by probability) to spew incandescent death upon the viewer, so some non-physical viewing test would have to be done (a hole one atom wide??). So our Luteces would be some subset  of their infinite number who were cautious enough to do this 'scouting' EVERY time they open a tear.

Elizabeth doesnt seem to have any machinery to do this when SHE opens a Tear (hmm and what about  those tears that seem to open by themselves all over Columbia  - maybe they are echos of 'safe' ones previously 'opened' to explain their non-catastrophic effect?? )

SO this might imply The Luteces (before their becoming dimension gods on their death) and Elizabeth (already a dimension god who apparently can see all (except that she should be killing the Luteces as the real cause of all this mess))   are somehow magically capable of selecting/guiding the Tear they are going to be opening so that it does NOT result in their instant death AND IS something someplace (sometime??) that they want to reach through a tear.