Multiverse

The multiverse is the collection of all universes which exist. There are potentially infinite universes. They all occupy the same space, with all matter and energy resonating on different frequencies and thus able to coexist at infintesimally close points in space. These different "frequencies" operate much like harmonics. From our frame of reference, our world is the fundamental frequency and every other world resonates as a "multiple" of it. The result is that these multiple universes are unaware of each other, though some resonances can propagte across more than one frequency, unbeknownst to the beings in any of the universes. As magic is moved by will, i.e. intensity of complex thought, events of great significance, steeped in great amounts of will—the convergence of the wills of great spirits, gods, and people—create stronger resonances that will propogate through the multiverse. In fact, all magic resonates across worlds constantly (much like every object exhibits gravity), but the resonances are so small they are never noticed and are even indetectable to (or too overwhelming for) a mage.
Theoretically, travel between the universes is possible if by magic one were to change the frequency of their particles. All energy not altered the same would not be carried over with the traveler.
In one manner of looking at it, the "multiverse" is really just one universe vibrating in different ways and, like a chord, is one cohesive self-consistent, balanced thing.
Alternate universes thus exist in the same time, the one constant in all the multiverse that magic can change. Resonances may propogate in a manner that does not manifest until a later time, thus having the appearance of anachrony, but time is indeed still constant.
Category:Cosmology