Codex of the Synapse: Folio A1.2 

 Neighbor-worlds

 

 

"The collapse of a black hole - any black hole - can indeed lead to a bounce which creates a new universe ....which expands away in a new set of dimensions of its own. ....these discoveries have led to the idea that our universe is just one among a multitude of universes."

                     ~ John Gribbin, In the Beginning: After COBE and Before the Big Bang, xiii

"What about the world, Mr. Cummings?" 
"Which one? I live in so many."   
                      ~ e.e. cummings, introduction to The Enormous Room

 

 

We are consigned to travel along our particular lattice, the vast monkey-bars whose rungs make up our local-world. But one can easily imagine other monkey-bars whose rungs pass through the in-between spaces of our own lattice, parallel to it, never touching, never allowing access, despite their proximity. Each of these parallel lattices, in the Mytharchy of the Synapse, constitutes an entire "neighbor" world, possibly as vast and diverse as our own.

We know that much of the mass of our local universe consists of "dark matter," or matter that gives off no light, electromagnetic energy, or indeed any detectable presence at all. Nonetheless, deduced mathematically from the way things in the universe are moving around, it must exist. Dark matter accounts for almost all of the mass in the universe, and yet, as if it were sitting on the next world-lattice over from us - out of phase - we simply cannot find it.

The space required to slip another lattice in between the lines of our own is infinitesimal. Therefore, an infinite number of worlds can exist in the gap between one particle of our universe and the next. The neighbor worlds are precisely what their name implies - neighbors, who, as a proverb of The Keepers says, "dwell nearer to us than we do to ourselves."

Together, the entire collective of neighbor-worlds form a universe of universes, known as the Continuum.

 

 

ADJOINING FOLIOS:

 

 

 

 

 OBJECTS IN THE MUSEUM COLLECTION:

Cat. #MA1.1A - Simulated magnification of Lattice Strand

Cat. #MA1.2A - Simulation of Neighbor-worlds in a Drop of Water

Cat# MB4.2 - Keeper Child's Lattice Toy (Steel frame and Fiber-Optic Filament)