The Growth of my Multiverse
Long, long ago, people thought the Earth was flat, with a defined edge that held a nightmare world far below it. Somewhere around AD 1500, a man named Magellan proved everyone wrong, by chartering a ship that eventually circumnavigated the globe, even though his corpse was left on some savage island in the South Pacific. With their minds expanded, man looked out at the stars and said “Well, at least we’re the center of the universe.” Then Galileo and Copernicus prove otherwise. And on and on it went, until the convention held that everything in creation resides in one merely infinite expanse of a universe.
Recent scientific studies of the cosmos and the anomalies have given to the rise of a hypothesis that the Universe might actually be a collection of universes, the Multiverse. That’s 20th century science talking. However, there has been evidence of a Multiverse for as long as there have been stories of people falling into holes or off cliffs and finding themselves in strange new worlds. When printed books became popular, stories of people entering a storybook world also arose.
In constructing my model of the Multiverse, I took these “fantasies” as well as the scientific Multiverse Theory and made a connection. Of course, with my curious, imaginative mind, I couldn’t help but personally see to the determining of every little fact. Before I even had a notion of a Multiverse, I located and visited many small dimensions where I made my presence very well known, something I rarely attempt anymore.
A few years back I tried my hand at creating a Universe of my own by writing an epic fantasy saga. That plan only worked slightly; the Universe is pretty firmly established, but I haven’t written much about it in story form. I intended to keep my little project separate from the rest of the Multiverse, but eventually I couldn’t help making a companion universe. Up to that point in time, I hadn’t given much thought to organizing a set of rules for a Multiverse, but when I started formulating the links between my two creations, I found what I was looking for.
I applied logic when defining the Void. Since all the Universes were completely separate from one another, except in portal regions, there had to be some sort of space between them to separate them. And since the vacuum of space within our Universal Boundary is the most deadly environment around, filled with space dust and unfiltered cosmic rays, the absolutely empty Void couldn’t be much friendlier to people.
Most of the Multiverse’s growth has occurred in the last year when I really had time to mull over my facts, leading the separation of Universes from Dimensions, as well as defining the kinds of portals and the real nature of parallel universes. And I owe to the that ultimate combination of logic and fanciful thinking.