It is dark outside. Technically as a day lasts 24 hours it still counts as a day, but in classic form the churning of many universes are preventing me from sleeping within my allocated 8 hour REM cycle despite self-hypnosis and that baby I ate two hours ago - jelly baby. That jelly baby I ate two hours ago, packed with simplistic amino-acid compounds that should have sent me into a sugar coma by now.
As you can see I am tired, I just can't sleep.
Picture, if you will, three objects in line. One of them is a super-mass structure with an insatiable gravity well, like a black hole. On the other end is a matter-less void - an equally insatiable vacuum sucking in whatever it can at the exact same intensity as the black hole. In the middle is World 1, the first world of creation. Because the Sixth World is made of 12 dimensions, the First World was made of 2. Behold my visual representationary prowess:
Working off the idea that the Dimensions are effect fields with fixed centers which generate a world when those fields overlap, and that those fields are affected by gravity and displacement or whatever their extra-dimensional equivalents are, we can assume that the shape of the world remains linear. There is an equal amount of force on each side, and thus the distribution of the dimensions is 1-1.
Skipping forward a few bagazillion millennia the first world collapses into a mini-well, and Volianor moves on to the Second World, a place with four dimensions which, I remind you, can border one another and overlap to a degree, but cannot occupy the same space:
Now the 'no simultaneous occupation of the same space' rule enforces a certain-if-not-definite rigidity in structure, but we can assume that if the dimensional fields have any wiggle room at all, they will be pulled towards the left, because there is now a greater force of gravitational attraction to the left (2-1). Later we have the Third World, Artash, a place with 6 dimensions:
This is where it gets interesting, because the 'no simultaneous occupation of the same space' rule has to be bent - five of the Dimensions can exist outside of the jurisdiction of the others, but the Sixth Dimension has to exist within 2 other dimensional fields, negating the property of independent existence. What's more it affects the other 2 dimensions, because now they exist within an additional dimensional field, implying co-dependence with the odd-Dimension-out.
While this is all very interesting, and could make for the basis of a great story, one also has to consider the integrity of the Dimensional Field: do they have to be circular/elliptical, or can they take up other shapes after they react to contact with other Fields and the pull of the spectral constants? For example, the above 'no simultaneous occupation of the same space' problem could be solved with oblongs:
This idea appeals not only because it's easier but there is no breaking out of any rule; merely the addition of another rule, such as, 'The field of effect surrounding a dimension may become irregular when exposed to external forces, but internal forces demand the volume of the field remains constant'.
From this point on we have not one possible universal form but two (three, actually, but I'll get to that in a minute): one in which fields maintain their integrity but dimensions cease to be independent, and another in which Dimensions maintain their integrity but fields cease to be independent. What's more important: the independence of the field, or the independence of the nucleus?
The real question being posed is whether the field is an area of decreasing dimensional effect, or if it is of equal value to the nucleus throughout its form. Can there even be 'degrees' to which a dimension applies? What are the properties such a state might imply - the ability to ignore or resist Dimension? Maybe. I'm always willing to accept possibilities.
Field Integrity suggests something different - that there are no degrees. A dimension either exists or it doesn't, and if it doesn't you cease to exist within the 'world'. This more closely represents the scientific beliefs of our own universe, but that is by no means any indication of accuracy.
The third thing to consider is whether or not moving towards the Vacuum increases the force acted upon the World by the Vacuum, as well as whether distance from the Gravity Well decreases the gravitational pull. Such additional considerations may actually balance out the force applied by the generated Worlds, and ensure that the dimensions remain equally-spaced. Considered further, that would deny the ability to change the Dimensional Fields' shapes to anything but other Dimensional Fields.
*Sleep overwhelms, thank goodness*
Assuming the effects do not balance, and continuing with the Uniform Field theory, we encounter the Fourth World and can imagine it looks something like this:
The more Dimensions I add, the more rigid the structure becomes, which is good. We now have 3 Dimensional Nuclei forced to reside within a minimum of two other fields, implying that those Dimensions themselves are an integral part of the others, as Socratic theory dictates an object cannot accept a quality into its form and remain stable if that quality is of an unlike state to the object.
The Fifth World:
A clear pattern is emerging where each dimension effects the 2 dimensions next to it.
At last, The Sixth World:
So that's model 1. I have, of course, assumed that Dimensional Nuclei attempt to establish a regular and equally-spaced form, and that's another of those things we can only make assumptions about on the 'what works small works big' principle. Such a compound is clearly highly resistant to external forces, because its internal bonds push it into an exact shape of minimum conflict (through polarity).
Naturally the question arises as to how we can be certain these laws work as they do, and as a simple librarian it isn't really my place to take up that battle. That's physics, and is a whole different field of inquiry.
As the curator of the Sixth World, it isn't my place to argue the physics on a representative level and mete out on such forces as 'probability'. My job is to record what I have discovered about the Sixth World, and from those facts that I know define the 'possible' laws that actually do apply in this small and singular situation. I am not a scientist in this sense, because I know I'm not going in blind. I already know that the Dimensional Architrave of The Sixth world is a crescent, like this:
This diagram, now that I am looking at it, implies several things:
- In Volianor's Totality, Dimensional Nuclei have spherical fields of influence around them.
- The 'energy' within these fields is not uniform, but is pushed away from other Dimensional Nuclei, resulting in large areas with little influence and 'lines' of maximised influence.
- The dimensions are organised in a crescent on the side of the Mass Field.
- 3 Cardinal points have allocated Dimensions. From top to bottom these are Time, Spectrality and Meaning.
- More dimensions exist within the lower half of the crescent, implying an outside force is pulling more powerfully in that direction than the other (or a force of repulsion is acting on the upper crescent). This is possibly the Fifth World.
In the end we are forced to consider a mixture of the two possibilities: the circle is the natural state of the field, as is field uniformity, but this natural state cannot remain stable in the presence of outside interference, and the field becomes elliptical and varied. In this way the nucleus is never directly exposed to the core values of another nucleus, but it does (given the presence of 6 or more dimensions) come into existence within another Dimensional Field, provided the Dimensional Nuclei do not arrive simultaneously. Either way, the fact that the spheres of influence touch explains why no single dimension can be affected without causing changes in the others. I'd even go as far as saying that those which border one another have direct relationships, while those that do not have indirect relationships.
So yes, all of this because I wanted to know why the Dimensional Architrave is a crescent. Being an Artist is a difficult quality to describe. Unlike scientists, we do not answer questions. We already have answers. Most of the time they just pop into your head and you think "Oh! That makes sense!".
What we can do is question those answers, and hope more things pop into our brains. To but it plainly, Artists work off different laws to those of the natural world, while scientists consult only the natural world.
A more complete look at Volianor's Totality can be seen below:
This image takes into account several cosmic events, such as the Third World Exodus, when several sentient species were propelled across the multiverse into the Sixth World, damaging the bindings on the dimension of Temperature; and the relocation of the Dragon Dream, when a parallel Sixth World (Asjai) began to fall apart and slowly funneled into the substance of Reltash, purportedly due to the actions of Demani, the Dream God.
All that's missing here is the creation of the seventh, eighth and ninth worlds, and the worlds I have not even begun to contemplate.
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