But there was more to it. There were faint sounds, for one thing, and they weren’t just two-dimensional. Just the opposite – they were each a fully realized world, and each was continuous, like a slideshow or film reel that extended vast distances forward and backward from any of the scenes of focus.
I suppose this metaphor, if taken with any sort of literalness, requires at least five-dimensional vision.
Things got even more complicated when each of the slideshow reels forked out and branched as they moved further away. The only thing stopping them were the terminus points.
“Further away”, in this case, appears to be along the temporal axis. Let’s upgrade that to six-dimensional vision, then.
What’s a terminus point? I feel like that’s a math/geometry term I’ve heard at some point, but I don’t know what it means.
The first terminus wasn’t complicated. The now, the present. It moved inexorably, steadily forward, consuming the individual realities as they ceased to be the future and became the now.
Again, “forward” appears to be temporally.
So if one terminus point is “now”, then I guess the terminus points are where the branches convene? In that case, is one of the more complicated terminus points the arrival of the apocalyptic threat 2-15 years from now? And is that local to the Wormverse only?
The other terminus was somewhat more ominous. Every branch ended at some point, some sooner than others.
…you’re right, that’s ominous. A branch ending, in this context, would mean the end of a timeline, and if all branches of a universe end, the end of that universe.
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