Driven more by idle curiosity, than a genuine interest, you set the parameters to show you a more sexist reality. The power to the portal takes a few minutes to rise, the smell of ozone thickening in the air.
A faint swirling appears in the middle of the portal. Barely visible, but you know to look for it. Closing the curtains allows you to darken the lab and properly observe things develop.
It's a few more minutes until the whole of the portal is swirling, the faint impression of shapes seeming to form and shift as they appear... or seem to. It's half an hour before the clear shapes form, into familiar shapes. Depending on the parameters, you can't always be sure to lock to an alternative reality. It's creation might be so extreme, or different that it's too distant to connect.
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Making out a shape, you realise it's a person. Leaning closer you hunt for more details. As they turn towards the portal, you recoil. Not so much forgetting they won't pass through, but an instinct is hard to resist. The power drain is less now, with the connection established, you can observe the alternative dimensions.
It's always dangerous to try to sneak something across the various dimensions. Some quantum differences are significant, and fatal. While others seem to be shrugged off.
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