Protosphere

ASCIIN SERIES
The Protosphere is an Allsphere-like object created by Asciin in the Hypercosmic Ocean of Realities, though it is far larger than any Allsphere(including Apex Allspheres).
== Purpose ==
The Protosphere acts as a sandbox for Asciin to experiment with new cosmologies, concepts, possibilities, forms of being, etc. This is all with the intention to eventually create the perfect world for each being to rule their own version of, once every entity in the Ocean is inside the Postsphere. He also pushes the boundaries of things like transcendence, abstraction, omnipotence, ineffability, etc, to eventually create the most powerful being who can possibly be contained within an Allsphere-like structure to rule each Consphere. The Protosphere is also where he originally invented Conspheres, including their inhabitants and Flow Particle manipulation devices, and the place where he currently weaves them.
== List of Experiments ==
=== Infinities Beyond the Absolute ===
Asciin remembered set theory and higher infinities from his ascension, and wondered if they could be pushed beyond the limit Stuart had introduced him to, the Absolute Infinity. He experimented with the limits of plain logic, then superlogic, hyperlogic, omnilogic, meta-logic, etc, through as many levels of mathematics and logic as the greatest infinity he created. He tested any conceivable mathematical value, no matter how ridiculous, until he eventually realized that Absolute Infinity isn’t mathematically defined, and when one surpasses it with higher logic, they only ever surpassed their own definition of it, which was inherently the limit of the logic beneath the logic they used to surpass it. Thus, he extended it to its conceptual limit, bringing it to a peak beyond all extensions of any form of logic or mathematical hierarchy.
This experiment was marked as a success, and implemented into both the Postsphere and every Consphere as an expansion to every layered hierarchy or number of smaller structures in a larger one.
=== Going Beyond Omnipotence ===
Asciin, like any sensible being, knew that omnipotence, by definition, is the greatest power. However, he surmised that the same had been true of Absolute Infinity, which he had managed to improve upon. What he eventually found was that there were multiple variations of omnipotence that had been proposed by theological scholars, mostly varying based on their interpretation of the omnipotence paradox. The lowest form of omnipotence was self-transcending in nature, eternally surpassing its own already unlimited capabilities. Such a being would go beyond its ability to lift in order to create a rock, and go beyond its ability to create in order to lift it. The next version was much simpler, as it was merely absolute, and logic itself was therefore irrelevant to it. To surpass such a power was fundamentally impossible. Yet, the greatest form of omnipotence did. How it is able to do such a thing is not for any to know, as that is the fundamental property of the greatest omnipotence, the Apophatic: it cannot be known, and any and all properties assigned to it are, at the most basic level, inherently wrong. However, Asciin still had yet to find a power that matched his own, despite himself being more nigh-omnipotent than the further escalation of the beings below him. Eventually, he reached the conclusion that omnipotence is relative to its own cosmology, and the only further omnipotence beyond the unknowable was even more unknowable.
This experiment was marked a success, and implemented in the form of the Conspheres' inhabitants.
=== Perfect Happiness ===
Asciin’s end goal is to create a perfect world for everyone in the Hypercosmic Ocean, so it only made sense to try making a universe where everyone was at the maximum level of happiness a being is able to experience for eternity. The flaw with this, he found, was that the slightest change disrupted his paradise to an unfathomable degree. So, for the world to work as intended, it had to be static, which defeated the purpose. For in such a world, there was no purpose, only an artificial, illusory bliss. There was no experience, and without pain to contrast against, happiness meant nothing.
This experiment was marked as a failure.
=== The Flow Particle Retcon Device ===
Asciin figured that if he was going to re-write Allspheres, he would need to manipulate Flow Particles, which no entity within his Conspheres was capable of. He immediately began work on a new device, which would allow any sufficiently intelligent being to manipulate the basic substance of the Hypercosmic Ocean of Realities. Numerous prototypes were made, and almost all of them resulted in catastrophic damage to the Protosphere; this was when Asciin had the genius idea to move his riskier experiments to isolated Conspheres. Eventually, he got it right, creating a cannon that shot pure energy. It could be reprogrammed to cause whatever effect, but defaulted to the settings now used by Conspheres during Allsphere conquest.
This experiment was marked as a success.
=== The Teleportscope ===
Wanting mostly just to have a cool gadget, though he also thought it might end up being useful, Asciin began work on a teleportation device. Not for the lower realms; he could teleport or simply become omnipresent in those. No, he wanted to teleport around the Ocean itself. It was made in the form of a telescope, and works by reading an entity's Flow Particle signature, encoding it into pure metaphysical information, and flinging it across whatever expanse it's pointed over. However, before he could give it proper testing, Asciin moved on to other things(like the end of all Allsphere Amalgamation), largely abandoning it.
This experiment wasn't marked at all, due to being abandoned.
More experiments will be added if I think of them.
Category:Cosmology