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Here are restrictions to be considered for the parallel geometry:
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• Materials, production thresholds and EM field are used only from the mass geometry. Even if such physical
quantities are defined in a parallel world, they do not affect to the simulation.

I believe this contradicts what is demonstrated in example RE04, where the "mass world" contained just air, and overlapping materials from the parallel world were used for transport.