Many space-time continua exist in a hyperdimensional reality like bubbles in an ocean.
The reality endlessly brings forth new universes.
When a universe dies, its substance becomes part of something new and qualitatively different.
Our expanding universe, when nearly dead, intersects another old universe.
Their union will generate a third cosmos with unpredictably different "'...laws and constants of physics...'" (p. 381)
The Others seek to become part of that new universe and understand it.
During the transition, they survive inside an artificial force field.
Questions: Can spaceships use T machines to transit between old and new universes? Maybe not, if each universe has different laws of physics.
Is the "...white-hot sphere..." inside the luminous globe in XLIV, p. 366 a new monobloc?
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Kaor, Paul!
While the analogy or metaphor I have in mind about universes, parallel/alternate/or other, might well not pass scientific review, here it is, at least as something to be corrected. I am inclined to think of alternate/parallel universes as being like a wall: our universe, THIS universe we live in, is one side of the wall and the other universe is on the other side of the wall. And since a room can have any number of walls (heck, let's include floors and ceilings as well), there can be any number of universes. And since there can be any number of rooms in the cosmic "house," the number of alternate universes can well be infinite, according to this speculation of mine.
And in one of his letters to me Poul Anderson speculated on the possibility of somehow accessing a parallel universe thru black holes.
All this was inspired by the doubt I felt about how correct it is to say "Many space-time continua exist in a hyperdimensional reality like bubbles in an ocean. Because my thought was that all other alternate universes would go thru their own separate "evolution" from Big Bang and monobloc to heat death.
All this might well be nonsense and babbling on my part, of course!
Sean
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