Keys

If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.

The particle of admiration is so strong, its absence alone permits persistence.

The Shape of the Universe

The easiest way to describe the architecture of space-time, is as a really fat doughnut.

Or a planet with a hole right through its rotational axis.

Imagine if you would that all the possible timelines are stretched out from North Pole to south pole. North Pole would be the beginning of time. The big bang could be accurately represented as exploding in all possible directions. All time would flow back to a single point at the other end, or South Pole where it would collapse on itself. The result would be a black hole of the magnitude of all the universes and all time lines combined. The quantum energy built up on each time line would be measurable and immense. The energy released from such an event would make all versions of the multiverse pull back onto itself and create the mother of all black holes, leading to the other end of existence, the beginning.

Each aspect of existence would be more easily quantified. For example the quanta of energy at any given point on a time line would be reduced by someone leaping out of that time line and onto another one, or onto itself at another point in that line. Thereby changing both the departed and arrived at timelines creating new branches of reality at each. One where the individual left, one where it arrived to, and two more where the individual never left or arrived to at all.

It seems that the energy to break out of a time line is congruent with the cumulative quanta of that line measured from the begining. In other words, it would take more energy for a being to jump from a timeline when he is twenty years old than when he is forty years old. Time “mass” is equivalent in properties as matter. For example, it takes more energy to reach orbit from a more massive planet than a smaller one. It would therefore require nearly infinite energy to jump from one branch to another once both lines had already been building up for eons.

However, the point of least energy requirement is the point of creation. The moment where a version of reality branches out into two possibilities is the moment of least resistance, thereby the moment of least energy requirements. The person who is about to take his little space-time trip requires no energy at all to change path before he takes it. The decision just requires his thoughts. From the moment he takes his first step toward a decision that reality begins to build mass.

In a real life example: Mary goes back in time to kill her grandmother creating an alternate reality where her grandmother is killed (in her own reality her grandmother would have never been killed. Otherwise she would have never been born.) The consequences of not having the grandmother’s quantum energy in that universe begin to accumulate. Mary could move forward in time to see her present having been affected by her change but would not be able to move side ways back to her own time line where her grandmother is still alive. The infinite energy required to make the trip would make it impossible for her to move sideways back to her own branch reality.

The only way to get back to her own reality would be to move forward in time to the big crunch, then back to the big bang at the beginning and choosing the right branch of timeline out of a nearly infinite number at the moment of creation. Then moving forward to the time she left.