No, you didn’t break anything. Well, as far as we know. But you definitely attracted our attention. As you noticed, we are stuck in linear time … but the bridge doesn’t move completely linearly. Sometimes it takes weeks on our side to move it over few minutes on yours, and I think we already saw some events out of order. I’m not sure how well we can control it … but I think we will eventually be able to move it to other timeline.
So…. The answer is complicated and I am not entirely sure that I can communicate with you via this medium, but I am going to make an attempt because the responses you’re getting are less responses and moreso a scattershot of random questions from an assumed uncountable number of voices.
If you are having trouble understanding what is going on, go back to the moment in time where you were asking if we were the multiverse police, poke your head out, and look *down*.
Imagine that you are reading a book. The characters in the book are unable to traverse backward or forward in their timeline – they ‘experience’ their vision of reality in a way that is perfectly linear, but they can travel along their ‘timeline’ as anyone normally would, moving freely within their reality like any other being in their reality could move.
The reader has a different set of constraints. The reader of the book is able to move forward and backwards along a *very narrow path* within one given timeline, only following a specific set of circumstances – and usually not even given a complete perspective of one timeline, only one small piece of it. That doesn’t mean that the reader is not subject to their own limited time frame within their reality, operating within the same constraints that exist therein, but their window of access into the alternative reality revealed to them via the book is not bound by linear time – only by the scope of the narrative.
Now, that’s not quite the case here – we are *sort of* bound by a time constraint, we can only see so far ahead into your timeline, but that horizon is slowly expanding, sometimes by moments and sometimes by days. It’s anyone’s guess, but the average period of expansion is a handfull of your subjective minutes per rough week of our time, with the occasional great leap as our viewing medium shifts perspective. Truly, we only have a very limited scope of access into your reality. We like to watch. I genuinely don’t think we can actually *influence* what goes on in your timeline to any real degree. We’ll see what happens as the perceptive horizon of your timeline expands. Interestingly, it doesn’t expand backward – the earliest we can see is the literal moments before the Nihilak ship’s emergence, whereas the linear ‘forward’ time progresses occasionally.
To summarize: From our perspective, your reality is ‘less real’ than ours and can be interacted with in a similar manner to reading a book. It’s theorized that our reality is much the same, and some people believe that there are higher beings that perceive our reality similarly – we still haven’t found out if they exist though, it’s a topic of great debate, let alone people trying to figure out who the ‘main characters’ are, if they exist at all. For all we know, the ‘viewing window’ into our reality might have ended centuries ago and we’re just left to spiral off into infinity with our own watchers having moved on to something else.
There’s a solid chance you’re not going to remember this once you leave the white room but I didn’t want to leave your question unanswered. I hope that helps.
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No, you didn’t break anything. Well, as far as we know. But you definitely attracted our attention. As you noticed, we are stuck in linear time … but the bridge doesn’t move completely linearly. Sometimes it takes weeks on our side to move it over few minutes on yours, and I think we already saw some events out of order. I’m not sure how well we can control it … but I think we will eventually be able to move it to other timeline.
So…. The answer is complicated and I am not entirely sure that I can communicate with you via this medium, but I am going to make an attempt because the responses you’re getting are less responses and moreso a scattershot of random questions from an assumed uncountable number of voices.
If you are having trouble understanding what is going on, go back to the moment in time where you were asking if we were the multiverse police, poke your head out, and look *down*.
Imagine that you are reading a book. The characters in the book are unable to traverse backward or forward in their timeline – they ‘experience’ their vision of reality in a way that is perfectly linear, but they can travel along their ‘timeline’ as anyone normally would, moving freely within their reality like any other being in their reality could move.
The reader has a different set of constraints. The reader of the book is able to move forward and backwards along a *very narrow path* within one given timeline, only following a specific set of circumstances – and usually not even given a complete perspective of one timeline, only one small piece of it. That doesn’t mean that the reader is not subject to their own limited time frame within their reality, operating within the same constraints that exist therein, but their window of access into the alternative reality revealed to them via the book is not bound by linear time – only by the scope of the narrative.
Now, that’s not quite the case here – we are *sort of* bound by a time constraint, we can only see so far ahead into your timeline, but that horizon is slowly expanding, sometimes by moments and sometimes by days. It’s anyone’s guess, but the average period of expansion is a handfull of your subjective minutes per rough week of our time, with the occasional great leap as our viewing medium shifts perspective. Truly, we only have a very limited scope of access into your reality. We like to watch. I genuinely don’t think we can actually *influence* what goes on in your timeline to any real degree. We’ll see what happens as the perceptive horizon of your timeline expands. Interestingly, it doesn’t expand backward – the earliest we can see is the literal moments before the Nihilak ship’s emergence, whereas the linear ‘forward’ time progresses occasionally.
To summarize: From our perspective, your reality is ‘less real’ than ours and can be interacted with in a similar manner to reading a book. It’s theorized that our reality is much the same, and some people believe that there are higher beings that perceive our reality similarly – we still haven’t found out if they exist though, it’s a topic of great debate, let alone people trying to figure out who the ‘main characters’ are, if they exist at all. For all we know, the ‘viewing window’ into our reality might have ended centuries ago and we’re just left to spiral off into infinity with our own watchers having moved on to something else.
There’s a solid chance you’re not going to remember this once you leave the white room but I didn’t want to leave your question unanswered. I hope that helps.