thefarshore | (no subject)

Posted: June 8th
From: Asclepius

Something I've found myself quite interested in over the last few weeks has been a question of...well, I suppose our existence.

Pardon me if this question has been asked before, I haven't seen it. I'd appreciate a summary of that particular conversation, if it has happened before.

Now, as a bit of background--I am from...a fairly significant amount of time in the future. I state that vaguely because there are rules against discussing it, we accidentally time travel often enough that there's protocol in place. But I feel fairly confident after my research that I am also in what I would consider a parallel universe. Those are also fairly well-documented in my time. (I must say this is far more pleasant than the last one I was in.)

Anyway. If all that is the case, I have to wonder: why do the divisions of god and shinki fall as they do? Whatever power brought us here evidently can reach through time and both physical and metaphorical space. Infinite realities mean infinite possibilities that in one or the other reality, we are either alive or dead.

Please keep all specific instances and examples private if you wish to give them. I don't want this discussion to be the cause of harm to anyone.

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Yes. That is precisely what I mean as well.

Alright then.

I mean, we aren't done with charting our own universe yet, considering it has no end, but it might be something to do in the future.

If your world is bigger than most, then it might take a while to reach its barrier. I suppose if it's considerably so, it's reasonable you haven't found the edges yet. All realities have an end though. As you'll find out, or your children or their children.

Whether or not you or they learn to break through it remains to be seen, I suppose.

[Julian's starting to think that the science that you're working with compared to what he knows is not at all the same.

For one, the universe is expanding. Faster and faster, and will continue to do so. It's a basic tenet of the understanding of the galaxy that all the species have arrived at independently.

But hey. He's not here to argue astrophysics. Except now you got him on a subject and he rarely lets go of those...]

The observable universe is 46 billion light years in all directions, and expanding. Our fastest engines are capable of traveling at 3,053 times the speed of light. It would take over a century of completely uninterrupted, maximum speed travel to reach the edge of the galaxy.

Of course, that's hypothetical--no ship can travel at its maximum speed for that long.

It's probably not going to happen. What's the point of exploring if you don't take your time about it?

[It isn't the same, not even remotely. But to his reality and all connected worlds to it operate on that exact principle, that Julian's happens to be different doesn't mean Xehanort's wrong about his own.

But Julian's own galaxy actually having a barrier of its own does lend to Xehanort's theories however..]

Then it's up to your descendants to build something better.

Imagine if your ancestors decided what they had right in front of them was all they needed to explore, took their time, and never tried to venture further because they were focused only on learning what they already had around them.

You wouldn't have those fast engines at all. Or ships. Or perhaps even the cars this world has. The point of exploring is to keep pushing the limits of knowledge! Dreams aren't limited by the hypothetical, and it is those who reject probability in favor of possibility that make the advancements, reach new places and discover new things.

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Knowledge can come from exploring what is right in front of your own nose. We can't ignore what we think we've already discovered, because if we do then we might not find something entirely new.

My area of expertise is, admittedly, not engineering or astrophysics. I'm a doctor. I'm more likely to discover a new microbe or cure for a disease than a new system of propulsion.

And that is why there are those like you, who focus on what is within reach, and those like me, who are not satisfied with such limitations. Pioneers of your own world are likely also of the second category. Others who will seek to break those limitations, reach every barrier modern knowledge has, and shatter them!

As I understand it this world is absolutely riddled with terrible diseases. Since doing so will not affect your timeline or world in any way shape or form, and thus not invoke the wrath of your temporal agency, do you intend to apply your area of expertise to the best of its possibility here?

There's only so much a cure spell can contend with.

Ones that we've largely eliminated by my time. So much so that I don't even know what we did to cure it, it's been so long.

[That's only partly a lie. Lots of genetic engineering. He is definitely not up to playing that much at god.

He could do it, theoretically, but opening that door would be too much.]

That isn't a flat 'no,' if you were about to interpret it as such.

It might be a worthwhile endeavor to attempt to reproduce those cures. After all it won't affect your timeline.

We're assuming, at this point.

Though we're forced to assume a great many things.