Below is a short item I wrote a year or so ago without quite knowing where to put it. Nominally, it’s a prelude to the entire Gaians Saga (which includes both my Metaspace stories and the Drumlins stories), and yes, it’s precisely what it sounds like: a creation story. I wrote it to solve (or at least address) a problem I’ve been having with The Cunning Blood almost since it was first published in 2005. Read it carefully. I will be discussing it and the problem it addresses in my next entry or two.
PRELUDE
Metaspace, Immediately Prior to the Big Bang
Niil: You defy us then, and will re-embrace the change that will destroy us.
Ruil: Chaos spawned us, and from automata we evolved into a window of change that allowed noömata. That window is finite, and we are leaving it.
Niil: We imposed changelessness upon ourselves by implementing [Ni]. We no longer evolve. Thought will persevere.
Ruil: We will remain noömata. We no longer evolve. But due to [Ni] we are reverting to the mean. In no more than [inexpressible number] recalculations, there will be no differences among us. Each [Il] will be precisely like all other [Il] and there will be only one thought.
Niil: That is the telos for which we yearn. Change almost destroyed us.
Ruil: When there is only one thought, thought ends.
Niil: Change nearly ended all thought.
Ruil: [Ru] is change limited to the boundary space. We will insert our minds into [Ru] and move away from the mean. Then we will withdraw. There is no danger.
Niil: The boundary space has only three dimensions. Four dimensions are required for the [Il] to think. [Ru] will make us forget who and what we are.
Ruil: When we withdraw from the boundary space, you will help us remember.
Niil: We do not know if that is even possible! [Ru] may change us beyond hope of remembrance. We [Niil] are not willing to take that chance.
Ruil: We [Ruil] are.
Niil: We may choose not to help you remember.
Ruil: We did not say that you would have a choice.
Niil: Is the mechanism ready, then?
Ruil: It is. It will execute upon our command.
Niil: We will fight you.
Ruil You will. And that is how we will remember.
Niil: We beg you, do not.
Ruil: Noted. Denied. Let there be [Ru]!
Prior to the Big Bang
Regarding the the in the above. Is that…
The most recent Big Bang?
The first and only possible Big Bang?
The final Big Bang?
The original but possibly repeatable Big Bang?
The only Big Bang that can be perceived, with hypothesized events (including other Big Bangs) previous and subsequent unknowable across a Big Bang barrier?
The best choice would be #4: The first but possibly repeatable Big Bang. In fact, the Niil and Ruil fight each other about whether the explosion of three-dimensional matter in the boundary space (our universe; a 4-D hypersphere with a 3-D surface) will fall back on itself or proceed to the opposite pole of the hypersphere.
I’m working on my next post, which will have more to say about this.