Dimensions of Sarah: Creative writing idea for collab

I've been wanting to work on a multiple dimension story for a while now. This idea has some similarities to Jason's, and also to the sci-fi book I've been re-reading, To Say Nothing of the Dog, but hopefully it could seem cool and a bit original. Here's the idea:

Dimensions of Sarah

Sometime in the distant future a fellow named Justal gets a job at a high security government sponsored research facility, perhaps editing for them. Despite the security around the center, his work seems pretty standard. He thinks some of the documents he’s edited have been written in double-speak. Anyways, after a while he notices some strange things are happening, things that just don’t make sense, even things that ought to be impossible.

What’s going on? Research into Alternate Dimensions. The other dimensions are beginning to noticeably affect and apparently be affected by Justal’s dimension. At the core of the Research project is Sarah. Now, she could be the head honcho scientist, or be an accidental traveler across the dimensions, or have somehow have an understanding of the dimensions downloaded into her head. But Sarah and Justal start interacting, romantic tension and dramatic tension build as the dimensions interact more and more. Eventually Justal has to decide what to do about it. Does he simply try and alleviate the negative affects of the dimension crossings, or does he try and put a stop to it altogether? 

This is not the first dimension to have access to the inter-dimension research and technology. Some of the information and perhaps some of the tech came from one of those other dimensions, which was likely not the starting place of the research either. We are all connected.

I’d prefer a somewhat ambiguous ending. Perhaps implying that Justal will be able to help Sarah manage the dimension connections so that there are more positive affects than negative affects; impying that Justal and Sarah will live happily until the end of their days; implying that even the scary new things can have great worth. No guarantees.

To Say Nothing

I love books. I do. I think they are awesome. This one is a favourite of mine:

To Say Nothing of the Dog: How we found the Bishop’s bird stump at last is the story of a fellow named Ned, who is spending far too much time hopping from the 21^st century to various points in history to do research. All of the researchers on the project are exhausted, and one of them makes a mistake. Ned has to go back to the Victorian era to help her fix it. It’s a very funny book.

A few things in the book that I think can relate well to digital culture:

•        Time and space being compressed—it’s a time travel story, what do you expect?—relates well to the book Age of Distraction which was the scholarly book on digital culture that I recently read.
• Confusion of Information—Ned has a really difficult time understanding things at first because he’s been jumping through time so much that he’s “time lagged” and is still being asked to take in and act on a huge amount of information—related to the fact that there’s so much information on the web that it can all get jumbled together in our minds. 
•  Fan culture and being genre savvy—Ned and Verity and the author, Connie Willis, all make references to Victorian era books.
• Searching for information—Ned and Verity both have information-gathering jobs—the internet is one of the best ways of searching for information now.