<~Catherine's POV>
The monsters of the Void are simply gargantuan. Out in the empty space, it would be impossible for a human to measure them without a reference. For human telescopes, a fairly complex set of equations involving their size on the screen, the lens' focus, and more parameters, calculating it is simple.
An AI trained to deal with that kind of data returns these results, and multiple more, in a fraction of a second.
Diameter of the largest creature estimated at over ten kilometers. Total number greater than a thousand. Speed relative to the galaxy core almost double the stars at the relevant radius.
The data rolls through the screen, and then it refocuses on another object. Its size is too small to capture with any detail, but the AI extrapolates and estimates. Color in the shades of yellow, size between one and a half and two meters. Irrational human resemblance, it decides based on quick simulations.
Speed relative to galaxy core, two meters per second; the AI returns an abnormal value, suspicion of calculation error. Detailed analysis returns zero point zero three meters per second. Repeated again and again the background, they bring the result closer and closer to the final verdict.
Zero.
Suspicions of error do not stop, but all calculations point towards that result without fail. Shelved for further analysis it gives space for more data.
Before that goes anywhere, one of the creatures disappears. One moment it is there, and another there is nothing. Not a visible trace remains to base any theories on.
Following that, as the AI still returns error after error trying to explain the event, there is a blinding flash of light. It comes from the unmoving shape opposing the monsters, throwing all the cameras into disarray as they try to adjust to its brightness, only to disappear a moment later.
As the image comes back into focus, it is revealed the closest few creatures are hot to the point they're shining in the visible spectrum. The AI judges light is the source of the damage, as it roughly matches what modern weaponized lasers do to matter - not that there is a lot to go off of with the telescopes far on the end of the star system and the targets only a few dozen meters wide.
After that outburst, the situation quiets down. The presumed human - as absurd as that claim sounds - remains unmoving in place, and the creatures continue advancing, although some of them alter their courses slightly.
The calm stretches on, for ten seconds, twenty, then for a minute.
Then the video goes black.
A series of quick tests confirms the equipment is working as it should, but before the AI can deeply analyze the cause, the image comes back. It is merely not even close to the last frame.
Dark fragments of what seems to be flesh, black drops of liquid, invisible bends and tears that move and shift the starry background. All in a dizzying variety of shapes, sizes, positions, and speeds. All looks like a fantastical battlefield, with remains floating around aimlessly and dregs searching like stray fish in a shipwreck.
All that is framed by a pale yellow, irrationally unmoving outline. It covers the place from up and down and back and obscures the view from the front slightly, so the AI zooms out briefly to ascertain what it is dealing with.
A pair of hands. Impossible. Once again, and a woman made out wisping flame in revealed, holding the remnants of the battle in her has as if God observing its creation.
The AI analyzes and returns more and more features. They have never been seen on this scale, but they are all familiar.
Digitigrade feet ending in three large claws. Wide hips, long tail winding around long legs. Slim waist, generous bosom, arms cradling the speck of space in clawed hands. Wings emerging from the back and folded there. Curved black horns as if devouring light, with vividly glowing ridges resemblant of dragons' belly.
The face, for a moment, is not visible, even though it should since the whole... being, is transparent.
Then the head turns, ever so slowly with the momentum of a solar flare and inevitability associated with the divine. It is, indeed, a being, the AI decides, even though not a single logical explanation for its existence is found.
Then the head turns, revealing the contours of the face beautiful like an image of just one human perfection and yet inexplicably different, impossible. Its expression carries no emotion, not a mote of starlight making it up moves, yet it pressures like the presence of a deity.
Its eyes move. For a single, infinitely long second, they move from an undefined point in space to the telescope. Twin abyss gazes, full of stars, red, black, incandescent, full of colors, they see, they know, they understand they draw they allure they disgust they crush they build theydestroytheymendtheysetrightloveare
Catherine screams feeling a pull on her side that sends her tumbling in disorientation, and she doesn't find out where gravity wants her before she slams hard into something and sharp pain blooms in her forehead.
She lies there for a long while as sounds and voices roll around, but they are muffled, irrelevant in the pain and... detached, in a way that doesn't make sense, and yet that seems normal. Doesn't make sense because there's no reason for it, and seems normal because there's nothing wrong.
There's nothing wrong, it hits her with a sudden spike of clarity.
She freezes at that, and slowly, carefully, tries moving through the pain. It's all normal. As it should be. It's all...
I'm Catherine. There's a hiccup in my chest and my arms snap to my front. Small, lean, and small mounds. Then to the top my head. Ears, soft, covered in fur, huge. Then to my tail.
My tail! I have a tail! I scramble up at the thought and I bang my head on something again.
Ow.
I put my hands over my head as my ears lay flat against it, and I rub it a little, sitting in place. Damn, that hurts.
"Uh, Cathie?" I hear from above me and I growl impatiently, but then it hits it's Xethu and my little heart does that weird flip and I open my mouth to apologize.
Wait. I growled. Right, I've a tail, ears, I'm a Wolfkin, so I can growl, right... no. My eyes blink open at the weirdness and I look around. Around my room.
My room.
On Gaia.
I turn to Xethu, who is standing a meter away and on the other side of a tea table, who looks at me with mouth for a flytrap.
Then I turn to my body, my very own small, cute, soft, strong body covered in midnight black fur, most of which peeks out of the absolutely oversized shirt I'm in.
"Uh." I answer, then my brain hitches on that voice. On my voice.
I blink a couple of times.
"Um. I have questions." I declare.
...
<Helia's POV>
When I pull to a stop next to Cathie's house deep in the alleys of the Middle layer, in a shade of towering skyscrapers packed and connected together so tightly and with so many bridges and walkways they might as well be a single solid block, Derrie looks paler than usual.
Might have to do with the way I was driving. Not quite breaking any rules, but skirting around them in a way that would have landed us in a couple of accidents if I was a normal person.
Truly, what can some little nudges to our momentum do.
"Helia?" The spirit asks, and I turn to her with raised eyebrows. She's just dismounting the bike, and looking at it with a frown. "I trust you wouldn't get us killed, but what the hell is up with your driving? That didn't look... normal."
I grin. "Long story short, energy manipulation has a lot of uses. Should we be focusing on that though?"
She stays silent for a while, turning to Cathie's house located on a honeycomb-like wall of apartments, in one of the lower rows. Most of the higher ones are obscured by walkways and all, but hers is clearly visible, painted bright blue next to a number of differently shaded hexagons. The whole construction reminds me of what we've seen on Tau Ceti f, but it's packed drastically more tightly, with each apartment shaped like a trapeze around ten meters in width.
"Yeah, let's not. I'll have time to dissect it later." She nods.
"You think?" Letty muses, then smirks and glances at me.
I only puff out some air and smile, leaving the bike to find a parking spot.
Derrie's gonna have way more to do than she realizes in the coming months, when she internalizes that the sheer amount of knowledge humans have about VOW and everything in it, which would normally take tens, if not hundreds of years to learn, is just a drop in the ocean compared to what has been hidden. Way more islands on Neva are inhabited than humans think, and that ring is just one of a huge number of inhabited stars, if not by life as humans know it, then by other, much different forms of intelligence.
Not to mention stars themselves, not to mention other universes.
Speaking of stars, one approaches Cathie's house with a grin on her face.
Did the girl get better acquainted with a certain demoness since I last saw them? Not sure how far they have progressed or if they did at all, but the way they hold each other can be interpreted in multiple ways. And she's a wolf!
That... would have been a surprise if I did not have a vague recollection of causing that about a hundred and twenty years in the future from this place. As it stands, it just kinda hits me that I caused it. That I can do so much because I simply want to. It's a... weird feeling.
Aaah, but that's enough peeping. It's kinda unconscious now. There's a big open talk just around the corner, so I figure they're gonna say it if there's anything to say.
"Robert and David are already here." I tell the two walking next to me and looking down into the mess of the city below us, over the railing. "...Jake's also here."
"You don't- ah." Derrie sighs. "Well, it was supposed to be a little surprise, I guess? Robert thought that we're meeting up, so might as well invite the rest, and Jake conveniently had free time." She sucks on her lip for a moment. "It didn't go quite like we thought, huh."
I only nod my head, as we're just by the door, and I ring the bell. It's quickly answered, and Xethu's voice sounds out.
"Derrie?"
"It's me, with company." The girl answers. Seems she was expected. What about me though? I don't think they wouldn't connect the dots seeing us three...
"Come in then, we're in the living room."
The door clicks as soon as the quick exchange ends, and we step inside, though Derrie steps up first, giving me a look.
Don't do stupid shit, got it. She'll handle the first three seconds.
We pass a tiny antechamber and enter the living directly, revealing a fairly small, cozy space with a number of blue and pink jelly cushions strewn about, all illuminated by a large, flat lamp on the ceiling. The walls open up on the left side to the kitchen and on on the right side to a small corridor with stairs and doors, but those are not what we focus on.
The moment we enter, four heads swivel and lock on us. Cathie's still curled up on Xethu's lap and doesn't seem to register anything, instead radiating an aura of happiness.
The four, that is Xethu, Jake, Robert, and David, all four stare in silence as if they've agreed on it in advance. Derrie looks between me and the group, then sighs. I only grin at that.
"Nice to see you all. You probably guessed already, but that's Helia... and that's Letty." She adds the last part as my girlfriend steps in after us and gives a small wave.
The room erupts in questions and exclamations as soon as Derrie's voice fades, and I laugh at the four different questions that fly almost at once and all make so much noise it's impossible to tell who said what, then it gets weirdly quiet and each of the group looks between each other as if asking wordlessly to to speak first.
"What's all the ruckus-?" Is the first voice that breaks the silence, and it comes from none other that Catherine, who looks around blearily as if she woke up ten seconds ago, which is probably what really happened.
Her eyes rest on me, and she freezes for a long moment. Then she sniffs the air, shudders, and lets out a massive breath of air; I can't quite tell if it's one of relief or something else as she deflates on Xethu's lap, staring absently somewhere around my legs as she lays on her side. "Oh, it makes sense now..."
She receives a total of five confused looks. This time Derrie joins in. I, meanwhile, do have a pretty good idea what she means. The girl had always had good intuition, and I can only assume becoming who she is now only amplified and developed that. And if I'm right, then she should be able to sense the power, a sort of presence coming from me.
"Cathie? What do you mean?" Xethu is finally the first to ask, and the Wolfkin looks up, still with her head on the demon's thighs.
I'm tempted to make a comment, but I refrain.
"Yeah, like, don't you feel how strong she..." Cathie's voice trails off and she blinks. She shots up to a sitting position, pats her legs, then her cheeks, then she blinks and frowns at me. Then she tries to focus on something in front of her, and suddenly looks up at me with a weird expression. A mix of realization, shock, and confusion, I'd say, but that soon melts and she flops back onto Xethu's lap. And stays there.
"God damn." She concludes.
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>CAOS God Here saying the true<
the return in time does not exist the truthIt, is much easier to reconstruct the entire universe, than to go back in time more than 1 hour.
Gravity is created from the collision between the balls that orbit the atoms and that creates waves when they join with the waves of each billion of atoms, the denser the material is, the more gravity waves it will create, which is why there are time distortions. near a very dense material.
Time is an illusion created by each tidal wave Gravity the distance between waves creates the effect of time If a material is denser the waves accelerate and time accelerates, this effect can be clearly seen from a plane or of a skyscraper, a very clear effect is on the clocks when they climb Everest, people on the ground give the illusion of walking very fast or a tractor in the crops moves faster than the slowness it would normally have, the closer you are of the planet's core, the faster time will pass. similar to BlackHoles or the movement of solar flares that move too fast the closer, you are to the Sun and when they move away they become slower.
(The light from distant stars moves very slowly because gravity is minimal in a vacuum)(When the vacuum or rather the dark matter is very dense, time and gravity cease to exist,Therefore, outside the universe, people end up completely frozen in time.
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This is an explanation that even a small child understands.
The electric balls around the atom rotate so fast that they create a shield circulating around the atom. The atoms affected by radiation cause the atoms to lose their shield, spinning erratically, releasing the energy from their core in the form of needles of fire or light energy.
(that chops the meat and liquefies the organs from the inside, the radiation is horrible
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That was supposed to be the last chapter? It was supposed to just end there? Are you planning a sequel? Because you have like almost no story threads resolved. If I was reading this story without the authors notes I would think we were only just getting into the main narrative of the story.
Frankly, I could give you a whole page of why I see this as an appropriate ending, but I won't, for many reasons. I'm not here to preach what I wanted to say in this story, and if you didn't notice a part of it, then it's just what it is.
To answer the question, no, I'm not planning a sequel. Not a direct one, at least, though I like reusing characters and worlds when I write other stories.
@LilRora ?? It's not about "not noticing what you wanted to say". You started like 8 or 9 plot threads and then just left them completely unresolved. You started major new plot threads *in the last couple of chapters*.
People read stories because they want a full story, not half of a story that cuts off right as things gets good and then refuses to explain anything or finish any of its plots.
The wolf did a nyah!
That... would have been a surprise if I did not have a vague recollection of causing that about a hundred and twenty years in the future from this place.
Urgh, tenses and causality and just generally confusing to my brain.
It's because of the speed of light, basically. The phrasing may be a little debatable, but if something happens ten light years away from you, it's arguably happening ten years in the future, cause that's how long it will take for the light with that information to reach the place you're at.
@LilRora time is weird. The fact that it is, to a certain degree, affected by gravity is weird. It makes my brain hurt.
@LilRora This is one of my pet peeves with how relativity is handled. 120ly doesn't mean 120 years in the future, it means your observation of that place is lagging by 120 years. If she did something 120 ly away then, for the information to arrive in 120 years, the information must have already begun propagating and thus the event must have happened.
Thinking about it as being in the future is a massive problem when FTL is added to the picture... In your example, the observer at A subjectively considers events at B to be happening 10 years in the future, the observer then uses FTL to instantly travel to B and now the departure from A is subjectively 10 years in the future.
@Kaithar Yeah, why I said the phrasing may be debatable. It all depends if we consider subjective perception or imagined perception of a "universal" moment in time (or however else one would call that), and a couple of other factors such how light cones are created.
@LilRora Yeah but light doesn't flow backwards in time, as far as I'm aware. We do not see future events occurring through old light. And if it were flowing backwards through time, wouldn't it be playing in reverse, the light echo that is? And moreover, if it has occurred in Helia's subjective/personal future, that means she has transtemporal omnipresence now. Or at least some other thing that lets her remember things she hasn't done yet.
Wait wait wait, had to pretzel my brain a bit to wrap around what you were trying to say. You were using time as a distance measurement, and not in a very plainly understandable way. Given two points in space at the same objective point in time two light years apart from each other, the causal information of an event on one planet will arrive two years later to the other planet. Which is to say, the visibility of that event will be two years "in the future" for that planet. HOWEVER! People don't talk like this because it is confusing, or rather it is too computationally intensive for back and forth conversation. It would derail a conversation, since it would take tens of seconds to entire minutes to make sense of what was being said, and that's with having a relevant knowledge base and having the relevant context. What we saw, or rather what Catherine saw, was the fight scene you kept offscreen, isn't it? That's what I'd assumed at first, until the distances involved meant that the scene would have to have occurred over a century in the past for it to be visible through telescopes like this.
EDIT1: Wait hang on, the internal logic of your turn of phrase falls apart under further scrutiny, or at least my proposed explanation/approximation of your thought process does. Reusing my earlier planetary example with tighter information tolerances, planet A and planet B are 2 light years apart. No no, this takes too long. An event happening on planet A can only be said to have happened 2 years in the future from planet B at the time that planet A's event happens. Planets A & B use the same calendar system, so from an objective temporal standpoint it is the year 1987 on both planets simultaneously. An event happens on planet A in the year 1987, and since neither planet has FTL planet B does not learn of, or more in line with your wording it does not experience this event until 1989. The bite of 87 can only be said to be 2 years in the future from planet B is in the year 1987, not 1989 because it will be the present under this modus of thought, and moreover it will be in the past not only from other modes of thought but also literally if a few days pass. It's one thing to use years as a stand in to light years, it's entirely another to try and loop in chronology into that because it entirely falls apart. Sorry for shouting.
@Tonykins2000 I can't really disagree with anything you say at the beginning, but then you forget FTL Network is a thing. The delay in the story comes from the time it takes for light from the fight to reach the telescopes on the edges of the system (I think that was even mentioned), and then it's virtually instantaneous. Certain groups of course want to keep it contained, but it spreads sooner or later, reaching Catherine a couple of days after the event happened from Helia's point of view. There was no weird chronology there, everything happened in the exact order it did from Helia's perspective.
@LilRora "There was no weird chronology there, everything happened in the exact order it did from Helia's perspective." then the phrasing of "in the future" is worse because you don't want the reader to think it's in her subjective future even though she's thinking the line
@LilRora If the light took a couple days to reach Cathy, assuming no magic f*ckery, then it's not even 120 light years or however many, the event took place literal light days away. And maybe it did, I read dozens of things simultaneously and 2023 hasn't been good for my memory and general mental faculties, but no matter how you split it there will be some manner of break in logic. Hell, this got me to understand the thought process behind the fallacy of FTL causing backwards time travel.
And I didn't forget the FTL network, it just wasn't relevant and I therefore excluded it from my example. Because it further undermines what you're trying to say. New example, alternate universe planets A & B discover the capability to transmit signals faster than light and come into contact with each other and develop their own FTLN in 1950. This allows them to align their subjective and objective presents with each other, so when the bite of 1987 happens on planet A the news of it is immediately spread on planet B. There is no logical or illogical way to construe the bite of 87 happening 2 years in the future from planet B's present timeframe of 1987. What's your point of bringing up the FTLN in this context?
EDIT1.2: my webpage reloaded while doing calculations offscreen. New example, and this one is an analogy! You are sitting at home watching YouTube on your television, when all of a sudden there's a flash coming from your window and the power goes out. You turn your head towards the window, and after about 5 seconds thunder pounds against the glass panes. The substation a mile away must've been hit by lightning, you think to yourself. And you most certainly do not think "the substation will be hit by lightning five seconds in the future."
EDIT2: the existence of the FTLN proves that your universe utilizes an objective timestate independent from the speed of causality, which is why using relativity as a counter argument to using the speed of sound as a stand in for the speed of light does not work. Just gonna preempt that.
@Tonykins2000 Sorry, but, do you think I don't understand what you're writing? I know what I write the best, I know why I write it like I do, and I know that it might not be correct depending on how much scrutiny it's put under, which is exactly what I wrote a few replies above. I just finished physics in this semester in college, and relativity was among the things I had lectures about, on top of my personal interest in physics. I assure you there's a ton of things I don't get, and if this is one of them - which I doubt - then I'm gonna go study up as soon as you give me a convincing argument why I'm wrong in that it depends on interpretation, because that's the reply I gave to Kaithar, which he understood as far as I see, and what you're trying to argue against.
As of now, your argument is moot, because the very first sentence of your reply shows you've misunderstood what I said in my previous reply.
@LilRora I concede and admit to you having the better knowledge base and better mental state (in that order), but as it stands I either do not understand or do not agree with what's been said. If it's alright with you, could we just start over from the top? Just put the whole thing out there.
Btw 'admit' in this context is me bringing up new "information" that was not in contention, whereas concession is me submitting to your claim over something I was not aware was in contention. I'm autistic, things such as tone and more or less just general in-depth conversation of this nature can be difficult for me to handle gracefully. I apologize for being heated, and the subsequent thorniness that arises from that.
EDIT1: Oh by the way my autism and adhd isn't what I'm referring to with my mental state comment, moreso a consequence of depression and terrible sleep health combining with the fact that there's been a dramatic increase in people with brain fog and decreased mental states this year, at least in America. The United States of, specifically. Also anxiety, since I'm just spilling everything out at the moment.
@Tonykins2000 Alright, so, the way I intended this to work is as follows: Helia teleports and gets rid of Voidlings that have invaded a distant star system, then goes back and goes about her own business. After a couple of days, the telescopes on the edges of said system that had not been destroyed pick up the fight, and the footage is shared all around via FTL Network, quickly reaching Catherine as well.
The reason why I used "some time in the future" is because when we consider the situation locally, then that event will only be seen in that time, and sharing that information via FTL transmission doesn't change that. I'm not great at explaining, so I'm not going to try and make a stupid mistake somewhere, but the whole thing here boils down to relativity of simultaneity, which is an implication of Lorentz Transformation, and the fact that arguably, from a certain point of view, everything happens only as it's observed. It's also got a lot to do with light cones.
That, of course, is arguable. We could instead consider a universal time frame, what I'm pretty sure you referred to a couple of times, where the observer is irrelevant. In that case, the event happened just a couple of days ago, which is about as simple as it can get, so I don't think I need to explain. The light cones are also a little vague in how they are interpreted, because it's not wrong to say that the edge of a light cone, because of how time is stretched and effectively stopped for photons, is all the same moment in time.
My personal opinion is, all of those are not wrong, because how it's seen depends on interpretation and assumptions that can't really be proven or disproven in reality (at least yet), much less in fiction where authors have a lot of leeway.
I do hope this clears up the situation.
@LilRora It does, thank you. I’m having some trouble compiling the next few sentences, and stating that helps me break the clog. I don’t believe in "exploits" so to speak, that is to say in the context of physics and rules of a universe. Specifically videogame esque exploits, I think I first formed this belief after reading a novel on here (which I like and think was good) where the protag, a dungeon core, manages an infinite energy/mana exploit. [Relative Simultaneity] isn’t actually an exploit or anything, but if causality moves at an actual speed, I don’t think it should be possible to backtrack through it to the source event instantaneously or retrocausally. Because if that’s possible, why doesn’t information flow instantaneously? I mean causality, or w/e I guess. And this can be used to accomplish an exploit, using this phenomenon to smuggle info back in time. There’s definitely weight behind observer dependent world states and subjective reality, but I personally don’t agree/believe in this aspect of proposed scientific canon, so to speak.
↑ And that was my stumbling block, I disagreed with a fundamental aspect of what you were say and I didn’t bring it up because I’m a dumbass, despite the fact that I very much could’ve said it. I mean, it did come up a few times when I was processing the comments and replies. But what’s done is done. Thank you for the explanation. I kinda think what Kaithar brought up earlier is relevant here, albeit with a misinterpreted context which threw me off. If the telescopes are a few light days away from Helia’s fight, she was still gone from the area in her subjective viewpoint by the time the causal information reached the telescopes and therefore not around to do anything. However, this is purely how things work via mundane & mortal physics, something that Helia is not. I propose that Helia, at least when spun up into one of the higher tiers of cognizance, has transtemporal awareness and was using the metaphysical act of being observed as a transmission vector for causal action. This sidesteps the various possible problems brought up, although at the end of the day her phrasing is still, well it’s bunk. I don’t think there’s a way to make my brain accept it as not being contrived or a logical fallacy, or even a logical failing. But that’s fine, because even if you are in higher education for physics, Helia isn’t :P. And neither am I, for that matter. My wheelhouse is fiction anyway.
@LilRora wait... Isn't that backwards? Speaking of Relative Space-time, As the light takes a set time to be visible At Distance, Then Wouldn't the Event that caused the change have been Ten-thousand years in the past, rather than future?
Though, given a world with FTL Travel, Space-time dosent work. Distance×object in space×the speed of light. That's the Equation. But with FTL, You ignore the first and last element, Replacing them with Nothing. Object in space×???. We don't know, Because we haven't yet exceeded lightspeed. That said, the way light works, to view the event in question in real time, from a great distance, Such as a star Dying, Is impossible. It would take The Result of the lightspeed equation. So, let's say 10000ly away, that's roughly 1 year per Lightyear. So, to witness Saud example, a Star 10000ly away from earth Exploding, FROM Earth, you would be seeing an event that happened 10000 years in the past, Rather than the future. But given near-instantaneous Travel, as in this story, it would be at most just a day or two in the past. Unless they somehow Travelled backwards on a Temporal Plane, Then there's no Way for it to happen in the future... Witnesses from that planet SEEING IT would be 10K years in the future, But that's just observing the event, it dosent change the When of the Event. So, if said event was Two weeks Before the meeting, for example, it would still be two weeks Ago, it kust wouldn't be visible from there for 10k Years.
I get what you were saying, But, Though Weird, Space-time dosent work that way. Unless you get into Quantum Entanglement theory, But that's a Whole 'nother horse in the race... to over simplify, The Speed of Light Dosent Affect Time, Just the human Perception of time. Lightspeed is always constant, and visible light is always in the present, even if it's source is billions of years in the past... but it CANNOT travel Backwards in time. That would be like seeing bulb generating light BEFORE turning on the Switch. Or Graduating college before ever attending. Time is a Constant. That's why we can't figure out FTL, We can't break through the time barrier.
Great chapter, but I saw this pointless argument and had to chime in. In theory, Your Words were correct, assuming they're speaking in terms of when the event will be Visible from the planet... but speaking in terms of actual Time, The event is still in the past, and always will be... time Is, as far as we can tell, one-way. To imply otherwise gets into Quantum Entanglement theory, And then it gets all messy, and everything devolves into endless paradoxes. So let's avoid THAT.
Yay. Lightspeed Theory. The ultimate puzzle for mankind, at this moment. Those Astrophysics Nerds are all working on it, but never making any headway.
@Darkakuahebi Time does not exist, it is just an illusion, just like money.
@LilRora Time does not exist, it is just an illusion, just like money.
@Dreckons Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so.
@Kristeen @LilRora really it's easy to understand..
Dark matter devours, heat, light and energy of Atoms. gravity and time It is an illusion because they were created as it'is a countermeasure that the universe to defend itself from dark matter, if you see everything that exists from another perspective are like two animals, predator and prey. (the universe VS the void, attacking each other and our universe is losing, that is why religious people call it the eternal battle between light and darkness, there is no more mystery)
@Dreckons I was going to say some sh*t about the stupidity behind "time is an illusion" bullcrap, but that whole essay pales in comparison to whatever the hell you just said about dark matter. What in the f*ck do you even think dark matter is, because that ain't it as far as I'm aware. Dark matter is what makes the formation of galaxies possible, it isn't some sort of biblical antithesis to reality or w/e the f*ck you just said.
EDIT1.2: Safari just destroyed EDIT1. Putting it simply, dark matter has nothing to do with the void (as far as I'm aware IRL) and your imposal of a false binary, this simplistic dichotomy of reality against unreality, is insulting to both me and the very concept of the void.
@Tonykins2000 I never said that it is its antithesis, the atoms are born from the void, they separate from the void and the dark matter tries to recover the energy it has lost, so that the atoms return to their origin but the universe refuses to return and cease to exist.
Therefore we are the rebels vs the empire haha
the dark side is much more stronger
The monsters with t*ntacles that devour planets and stars are the stars of death sent by the void.
and the demons are clones whose souls have been stolen with dark energy and are controlled by the empire
@Dreckons -_- you’re just having fun with this, aren’t you? Having a right ol laugh. The void is not the same thing as the fabric of spacetime, it is a lower substrate than that. Void is literally an actual cosmogenic and theologic concept that has existed in many ancient civilizations and cultures such as Ancient Greece, the Norse, and it has a plausible mention within Christianity. Kháos, Ginnungagap, and the darkness from before the Abrahamic god said Let There Be Light respectively. It even has grounding in a quasi-scientific sense, as the answer to “if the universe is expanding, then what is it expanding into?” The void, that’s what. It is not part of a universe, it categorically is outside of universes.
Also, again, that’s not what dark matter is. Dark matter is what allows for galaxies to from. And that’s it. Stop looking at the word 'dark' in the name and thinking it means it has connections to the void. And while yes, there are horrorterrors and eldritch monstrosities inside the void and they will wreak havoc onto material realms for a variety of reasons, that does not mean that they are some sort of agents for the void as a whole. The void does not have a will or at least a discernible one. Thinking that it does have some sort of singular and unifying mind, which has a simplistic human concept of imperialism as it’s driving force, is reductive and stupid.
@Tonykins2000 What else do you want me to tell you?, the energy of this planet is extracted through the souls that absorb the negative energy of dark matter and through feelings they transmute it into subatomic energy, when you die the soul is torn apart, it rises to the stratosphere and is discharged in the planetary nexus in the form of electrical storms, (one is found in the Amazon), then the energy is compressed, converted into heat and retransmitted to the core of the planet that recycles it to continue expanding the planet in addition to generating the electromagnetic shield if the conditions of the air are not sustainable for life forms, the earth will create typhoons to restore the earth's climate from pollution, the planet is an artificially machine and we are part of the system.
@Dreckons How is any of that related to the Void though.
EDIT1: Like, that's my only thing I care about in this sub-conversation of ours by this point. Lots of what you said just then are wrong from a scientific perspective of course, but since I also hold objectively wrong cosmogenic worldviews due to their mysticism/exoticism that's fine by me. Having views of the universe where forms of magic or just spiritual physics makes things fun. But as a recently self proclaimed acolyte of void, I take matters relating to the primordial darkness with a bit more seriousness.
EDIT2: I mean hell, in broad strokes the cycle of life energy you described is something I also ascribe to, just not some of the specifics. In universes with quantizeable life force, the aura caused by a planet's soul core analogue would also have properties analogous to the magnetosphere, if not be the cause of the magnetosphere in full. Life allowing for the creation of more life and all that.
*sniffs the "water" to see if it has been tampered with*
@Kaithar
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