Marvel Cinematic Universe Cosmology

==The Sacred Timeline==
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has two statements about its Multiverse being infinite in size:
*Ancient One states that the universe is only one of an infinite number and that there are worlds without end,Doctor Strange which is further confirmed by a guidebook which also states that there are endless possibilities.Marvel Studios Visual Dictionary
*A guidebook states that Dormammu is constantly plotting to conquer all of the infinite realities and dimensions within the Multiverse into his Dark Dimension.Guidebook to the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Doctor StrangeNote:
But actually these statements refer only to the Sacred Timeline and not to the Multiverse as a whole, this is because He Who Remains after ending the Multiversal War isolated the Sacred TimelineLoki: S1E6: For All Time. Always. and disconnected it from the rest of the Multiverse, with WoG stating: "He managed to close himself off and isolate the timeline that we all know from the other timelines. It’s almost like they’re an island that’s completely hidden from everyone. He’s been doing that to protect himself because he’s afraid of the other variants of himself".Director Kate Herron Reveals Secrets of the Loki Universe Therefore nobody, including Ancient One and Dormammu, can have knowledge beyond the Sacred Timeline, thus the statements of the infinite universes, realities and dimensions can only refer to the Sacred Timeline. To finally conclude, this article from the Marvel Website has WoG stating: "The Multiverse expanded indefinitely forward into the future, back into the past, sideways, left and right, to alternate realities we can’t even comprehend",How ‘Loki’ Led Us to the ‘Multiverse of Madness’ which refers to this scene where the Sacred Timeline branched out.
Further evidence of this are some statements from WoG which imply that each timeline is a multiverse on its own:
*An article of the Marvel Website states: "A variant of himself [He Who Remains] discovered different multiverses" and "Those He Who Remains variants who could escape from their own multiverse should the timeline break and enter ours?".‘Loki’: Meet the Man Behind the Curtain, He Who Remains
*Another article of the Marvel Website states: "The all-seeing, all-knowing omnipresent character at the center of Marvel Studios’ latest Disney+ series, What If…? has literally seen it all — and that includes across multiple multiverses, too",Marvel Studios’ ‘What If…?’: Jeffrey Wright Talks Voicing Marvel’s Most ‘Passionate Fan’ with The Watcher which refers to The Watcher observing the different timelines.
*Jeffrey Wright (Voice of The Watcher) during an interview stated: "He's kind of overseeing the entire MCU. He's overseeing the multiverses",Jeffrey Wright Calls His 'What If...?' Overseer 'The Biggest Marvel Fan' which also refers to The Watcher observing the different timelines. This same statement is also mentioned on the Marvel Website.Everything You Need to Know Going into ‘What If…?’
*Ashley C. Bradley (Head writer and executive producer of What If...?) stated: "He's legit punching across multiverses".Twitter
*Alexis Wajsbrot (VFX Supervisor of Doctor Strange 2) stated in an interview that they created effects where Doctor Strange and America Chavez jumped through separate multiverses,‘Doctor Strange 2’ VFX Artists on Creating 20 Multiverses in 40 Seconds which refers to this scene.Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
With this we can conclude that the Sacred Timeline alone is already a 2-A structure.
Although the Dark Dimension is stated to be beyond time and exist outside of time itself, this doesn't mean that it exists outside of the Sacred Timeline. This is because Ancient One includes the Dark Dimension as one of the infinite universes within the Multiverse, which as previously explained refers just to the Sacred Timeline, and a guidebook states that it exists in a void of time and the laws of physics. Therefore, the Dark Dimension instead of existing outside of the Sacred Timeline, it exists inside of it but in a specific place, a void, where the concept of time doesn't exist. Further evidence of this is the existence of variants of Dormammu in other timelines.What If...?: S1E4: What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?
==The Multiverse and its Timelines==
After the death of He Who Remains, the Sacred Timeline was freed and branched out indefinitely at every point of time into bigger timelines that connected with the rest of the Multiverse,‘Loki’ Director Kate Herron Explains Marvel’s Interconnected Multiverse the number of which is infinite.What is What If...? As a plus, the Sacred Timeline, and thus its branches, is stated by WoG to be temporally infinite as there are infinite instances of time always occurring at once.Creator Michael Waldron Answers Our 'Loki' and 'Heels' Questions During What If...?, we are told that there are endless possibilities where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities.What If...? The Watcher states that every passing moment is a possibility for a new branching, and an article from the Marvel Website also states: "One singular moment leads to a multiverse of infinite possibilities".Explore A Multiverse of New Characters With ‘What If…?’ Posters All these statements confirms that there are an uncountable infinite amount of timelines that are branching out indefinitely from the Sacred Timeline at every passing/singular moment, with infinite instances of time always occurring at once.
These timelines that branched out from the Sacred Timeline are also spatio-temporally separated from each other, evidence of this:
*Sorcerers can make portals to travel throughout the Sacred Timeline (As explained before by Multiverse it just refers to the Sacred Timeline), but they can't travel to other timelines of the Multiverse and are impressed when beings like America Chavez are able to travel through it.
*The most powerful characters and multiversal threats such as Infinity Ultron have only demonstrated the ability to travel to different timelines through portals or by warping space-time,What If...?: S1E8: What If... Ultron Won? never by physical movement.
*The timelines are separated by the Gap Junction.
*The Watcher implied that the destruction of one timeline doesn't lead to the destruction of other timelines.
With this we can conclude that all of the uncountable infinite timelines that branched out indefinitely from the Sacred Timeline at least contain an infinite number of universes, realities and dimensions, endless possibilities where every passing/singular moment can branch out into infinite realities and possibilities, making each single branch a 2-A structure which in turn can branch out into uncountable infinite 2-A structures on its own, and so on ad infinitum with each single branch.
This makes the entire structure of the Sacred Timeline along with all of its uncountable infinite branched timelines ad infinitum a Low 1-C structure. And the Multiverse as a whole contains an infinite amount of those unique timelines,Loki: S1E1: Glorious Purpose which is further confirmed by the Marvel Website,Loki: Episode 6 Event ReportLoki: Deconstructing He Who Remains’ Life’s Work at the Citadel at the End of Time like the Sacred Timeline and its branches called "trees" which are stacked, making the entire Multiverse and the space containing all the timelines and branches, called the End of Time, higher into Low 1-C (5D).
==Outside the Multiverse==
The Watcher is a 5th dimensional beingI Am Groot: S2E5: Groot and the Great Prophecy who exists outside the planes of space and time of the MultiverseMarvel Website: Uatu the Watcher above everything and everyone else.Why The Watcher in Marvel's What If...? Isn't 'An Old White Man' From there, he has seen everything that has ever happened, ever will happen, ever could happen, or is happening at the totality of the Multiverse across all time and space; and is also stated to be "all-seeing, all-knowing and omnipresent", and that has literally seen it all. According to Infinity Ultron, from there the Watcher has the entire Multiverse at his fingertips, and that its boundaries are irrelevant to beings like them.
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