Here I go with the timeline. There's serious problems, of course, if you look too hard. I did. I found the Monolith. The Shalanan weren't no material life forms, I'll bet. In fact, give me another tier of information storage beyond mass & energy. In fact, how 'bout four tiers - and make 'em HUGE. It's bad, real bad. Concept shattering. After all, 6 000 000 years is about 200,000 generations for these guys. If they double each generation, that's 2^200000 people, or 10^60206 ("Can you say 100 vigintimilli-sexagintaoctillion?") Now, that's too large. Let's assume the Universe is doubly-packed, meaning that each Planck-scale wormhole can connect to one and only one locally flat space, and that each such wormhole there connects only back to the spaces already defined. If each locally flat space has a hyperradius of 2x10^15 ly (my use definition from past Worldbuilding. The cosmic background radiation is opaque at 2x10^10 ly if Ho = 60 km/s/MPc.) then the volume is 8.225 ly^3 or 6.963x10^101cm^3 which is equal to 1.65x10^200 cubic Planck lengths. If each correspondent universe has 10^99 hadrons in it (observed luminous matter x 10 x volume ratio ((10^15)/(10^10))^3). That gives me about 2x10^299 hadrons to work with. If I back off to 8.433631x10^297 to give me the kind of number this World would generate (that's e^(7x7x14)), and assume everyone is about man weight (4.4x10^28 hadrons), that's 2x10^269 individuals. But since they're Shalanan, they wouldn't convert everything to people. If they're really good, they'd get away with 1/1000000 of the visible matter, or 10^-7 of the hadrons, for a population of about 2x10^262. That happens (with doubling every 30 years) in about 26,000 years. (OK you humans! If you think you can reproduce at the present rate and have us go on forever, don't even bother to leave. Kill yourselves. We'll need to eat you!) Anyway, can you see the problem? And lets say a tenth of these guys wrote a 1 000 000 word book every 10 years. That's 10^6 words x 1/10 yr x 1/10 people x 6 000 000 years x 2x10^262 people = 10^273 books, or 10^191 books per hadron in this locally flat space. That's a lot of history. Oh. Let's double travel speed every generation, starting at Vmax = c. Ack!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!! !!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!! !! !!!! !!!!!! !!!! !!!!! !!! !!! ! ! !!! !!!! !! !! ! !! ! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! (signal censored for excessive numerosity - oo)
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In the beginning, there was no beginning, for beginning implies time, and there was no time; there was no was, and so our reasoning fails. But outside the before there was the End of Time, and the flash that ended it. At the before which is the then there was made the ultimate absolute, that which might be. After, though there - The Pnakotic Manuscript of Bdremd.
(italics mark a metaverb analogous to the written verb; past tense endings mark the external implication, and present the global implication.)