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Instance

An **instance** is a time-based outcome or **timeline** in the spacetime continuum.

Civilizations that have a 6d existence can travel back and forth in time, but within one instance where all events or outcomes in the past or future are fixed within a 6d framework. Such civilizations are multiversal where each universe of the multiverse is bound to one instance. Causing a time paradox event could break the framework and you would enter another instance.

Once the quantum dimension is accessed (7d), the dimension of infinite instances (8d) is found. This is where there are infinite futures and pasts. Such civilizations are megaversal.

An instance only has meaning in 1r (reality). Outside reality, time is meaningless, and an eon is like a second to civilizations that live there.
Kryptonians

**Kryptonians** are an extraterrestrial humanoid species from the planet Krypton in another galaxy in the DC Universe. Kryptonians are human in their appearance, but developed superpowers like super speed, heat vision, x-ray vision, and super breath. The source of their immense energy metabolizing abilities lies in their cells which are advanced organic power storage units, and are enhanced by exposure to a yellow sun. They are a mighty technological power but when their planet was destroyed some of them escaped to other galaxies, ranging from individuals in spacecraft to entire cities shrunk and transported away. Since the destruction of Krypton, its radioactive remains have been spreading throughout the universe as Kryptonite and so they are vulnerable to its many forms.
Flying Polyps

The Flying Polyps are an alien race in the Lovecraft Universe.

They first colonized the Earth about six hundred million years ago, predating the arrival of the Great Race of Yith. They built vast cities of basalt with tall windowless pillars or towers. They were an aggressive and predatory species, and were at war with the Great Race, eventually wiping them out.
Alderson disc

An **Alderson disc** is a megastructure that is capable of supporting human life, similar to a Dyson sphere. The idea of an Alderson Disc was first proposed by science fiction author Poul Anderson in his novel "The Star Fox" (1965) and later in "The Problem of Pain" (1971).

It would weigh about 6 x 1033 kg, or about 3000 solar masses. The innermost radius is about 50 million km, just inside the orbit of Mercury; the outermost radius is set at 600 million km from the sun, about midway between the asteroid belt and Jupiter. The disc is 5000 km thick, so the surface gravity is 0.14 gees (like the moon). The hole would be surrounded by a 1000km high wall to prevent the atmosphere from drifting into the Sun

The energy required to assemble the Alderson Disk is in the region of 5 x 1044 J. The mechanical stresses within the disc would be so great that only something with the tensile strength of magmatter would be used in its construction.

Because the Sun remains stationary, there is no day/night cycle, only a perpetual twilight. This could be solved by forcing the Sun to bob up and down within the disk, lighting first one side then the other. Computer-controlled Shklovsky Grasers mounted on the inside edge could induce vertical motion, and would also serve to nudge the star back to center if it begins to stray towards the inside annular edge of the disc.

Life could exist on either side of the disk, though close to the Sun the heat would make life impossible without protection. Conversely, farther away from the Sun living beings would freeze. Therefore, for the entirety of such a structure to be made habitable, it would have to include a vast number of life support systems. Even without such systems the habitable surface area could be up to 100s of millions of Earths for a late Type II civilization.

To scale the useful living surface to more than 4 billion Earths would require a cooperative venture of a group of Type II cultures (perhaps 10-100 of them) or a single Type III galactic civilization.
Humans (Alien)

Humans in the Alien Anthology and Alien vs. Predator Universe live in the 22nd century and beyond, and explore other star systems trying to establish interstellar superiority at the command of greedy corporations battling amongst themselves in search of resources and possible alien life. They have spaceships, holographic tech, anti-gravity, fusion power, terraforming, space habitats, androids, and a variety of weapons.

Humans were created by the Engineers, an ancient precursor race who seeded Earth with life in the distant past.

In 2122 a spaceship was returning from a planet in the "outer rim" after mining millions of dollars of ore. They investigate a derelict ship and this was their first encounter with the terrifying Xenomorphs which kill all the crew of the ship except one.

As humanity continues to expand throughout the galaxy, they continuously conflict both amongst themselves and against extraterrestrial threats like the Xenomorphs and the Yautja. Other alien races were encountered by mankind during this time, including the Arcturians, with whom they entered healthy relations. By the 25th century, some humans developed empathic and telepathic abilities.

See also:

Human
Gravity laser

A **gravity laser** (or **gaser**) is a device for stimulated emission of coherent gravitational radiation or gravitons, similar to a laser which produces coherent electromagnetic radiation.

Conditions that must be met to build the device:

* There must be particles in an excited state capable of emitting radiation at the desired frequency.
* These particles must couple to supplied radiation in order to provide stimulated emission, possible using the Penrose process.
* More particles must be in an excited state than the ground state
* The lasing medium must be long enough for the radiation to persist and remain excited.

Uses:

* propelling objects into space
* weaponry

Example:

In David Brin's *Earth*: While attempting to remove micro singularities inadvertently introduced into the planetary mantle, it is found they can serve as mirrors, and the resulting gaser beams are used to nudge the singularities somewhere safer.
Michio Kaku

**Michio Kaku** is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science (science communicator). He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film.

He has made several proposals on the Kardashev scale as well as thoughts on ideas like ascended humans, consciousness, causality and time.
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**Ендрю Райан** (раніше - Андрій Раяновский) - засновник Захоплення і глава компанії Райан Індастріз. Народився в Російській Імперії, в 1919 році емігрував в США. Друга світова війна, бомбардування Хіросіми, і Нагасакі, і розчарування в післявоєнній перебудові світу - все це змусило його використовувати всі свої сили для побудови Захоплення - раю для багатих і вільних на дні Атлантичного океану. Райан населив своє місто «найкращими людьми світу» і заборонив будь-які контакти зі зовнішнім світом, що призвело до створення чорного ринку і бурхливохо розвитку контрабанди, в якій досяг успіху головний ворог Райана, Френк Фонтейн. Пізніше Райан націоналізував компанію Фонтейна, почав жорстоку боротьбу проти контрабандистів, ввів смертну кару, але це призвело лише до ще більш відчайдушного опору в місті. Врешті-решт Райан був змушений відмовитися від усіх своїх ідеалів і замкнутися у власному офісі.
Harlequins

A **Harlequin** or Rillietann, is a member of a very distinct sub-group of the Aeldari species in the Warhammer 40k Universe. They serve the enigmatic Aeldari deity called the Laughing God.

The Harlequins see no distinction between art and war. The Laughing God is the only authority that the Harlequins recognise, and their every deed is thought to be in furtherance of his own inscrutable agenda.

These enigmatic warriors are often credited with supernatural powers, and many amongst both Asuryani and Drukhari society believe that the Harlequins know most, if not all, of the secret paths through the endless maze of the Webway.
Humans (Warhammer 40k)

The **Human** species, also known as **Humanity**, **Mankind** or **Man**, is the most dominant sapient species in the Milky Way Galaxy in the late 41st Millennium AD in the Warhammer 40k Universe.

Humans are bipedal mammals who have proven to prefer highly stratified, hierarchical societies. Humanity is an aggressively violent, territorial and expansionist species that under the rule of the godly Emperor of Mankind has proven to possess little tolerance for other forms of intelligent life.

Humanity is divided into a multitude of factions, either working for or against the overall interests of mankind in its attempts to retain control over the galaxy and survive unscathed in an incredibly hostile universe.

However, the vast majority of humans live under the authoritarian rule of the interstellar empire known as the Imperium of Man whose primary concern is its archenemy, the daemons of Chaos.
Mondoshawan

The **Mondoshawan** are a race of aliens that are friendly to humans. They serve as the caretakers of both the Four Elemental Stones (Water, Earth, Fire, Air) and guardians of the Fifth Element. A succession of Priests were established to protect the Fifth Element and the Chamber in an Egyptian temple. The Great Evil attempted to destroy the world 5000 years prior to the events of The Fifth Element, possibly multiple times - and perhaps even causing the Moon to form around Earth.
Combine

The **Combine**, also known as the Universal Union, is an immense multiversal multi-species empire in the Half-Life Universe, whose goal is to assimilate and enslave the multiverse.

When they invaded Earth in the early 2000s they were victorious in hours. Over twenty years they brutalized humans with drugs, mind-control and propaganda, and even acts of genocide to control them. They tried depleting the world's natural (especially oceans) and animal resources to the point of extinction. However, Some humans refuse to be subjugated and formed a Resistance that fought back against the invaders, beating the Combine twice, even with the powerful military they had at their command using their advanced technology.

They assimilate intelligent species from the universes they conquer, and re-engineer them into bio-mechanical organisms that serve as slaves. On Earth, the Combine uses their technology to create armies of super-soldiers called the Overwatch.

They teleport between universes and dimensions in their conquests, using teleporters that require dark fusion reactors to power them. Most of their technology is powered by Dark Energy.

Compare:

Borg
Meeting God

This theory is proposed by User:POONiscool. It states that if a civilization advances enough, it will meet their "gods" that created them without even trying. This theory is based on two assumptions:

1. That every lower level civilization is created by higher lever civilizations, which are their "gods", and
2. That it takes more and more time exponentially to advance one level compared to the previous level. For example, a civilization may take 10 thousand years to advance from Type 0 to Type I , and take 1 million years to advance from Type I to Type II. Advancement on the scale gets slower and slower.

Let's say a Type 0 civilization is created by a Type III civilization, and the Type III civilization are the Type 0's gods. It will take way more time for the Type III civilization to advance one level than the Type 0 civilization, possibly billions of times. From this logic, we can say that given enough time, the advancement gap (difference between their Kardashev scale values) between the two civilizations will be smaller and smaller, as the lower level civilization catches up. When the advancement gap becomes small enough, the lower level civilization will be able to communicate to the higher level civilization as they are now similar in advancement, and the lower level civilization would truly meet their creators and gods.

*THIS IS JUST A THEORY*
Gravitational lensing

In Einstein’s General Relativity, matter and energy bend and distort spacetime due to gravity. When light passes through that distorted region, bending and magnification ensue. It behaves similarly to an optical lens, but powered by gravity: a **gravitational lens**.

With **strong lensing**, where clear images are seen, cluster and individual galaxies show gravitational lensing. When the observer, lens, and background objects all align, spectacular features such as arcs, multiple images and even perfect Einstein Rings become possible. A distant massive, compact galaxy was found by JWST behaving as a gravitational lens.

With **weak lensing**, the distortions of background sources are much smaller and can only be detected by analyzing large numbers of sources in a statistical way to find coherent distortions. The mass distribution and background distribution of dark matter can then be reconstructed. A large number of galaxies need to be viewed in this manner, as well as the cosmic microwave background.

Instead of positive weak lensing that reveals locations of positive mass dark clusters, "negative mass clumps" can be located using negative weak lensing, This allows solutions like traversable wormholes stabilized by exotic matter of negative energy density. Invisible negative mass is an alternative interpretation to dark matter, which classically has a positive mass.

With **microlensing**, no distortion in shape can be seen but the amount of light received from a background object changes in time. The lensing object may be stars in the Milky Way, with the background source being stars in a remote galaxy. So a star in a distant galaxy can act as a microlens and magnify another star much farther away.
Barometer

The **barometer** is a device used to measure atmospheric pressure. Its implications are profound, going far beyond its usefulness for predicting the weather. The device has helped scientists understand the nature of the atmosphere and to discover that the atmosphere is finite and does not reach to the stars.

There are two main forms: mercury and aneroid. In the mercury barometer, a glass tube contains mercury and is sealed at the top, while the bottom of the tube opens into a mercury-filled reservoir. The level of mercury in the tube is controlled by the atmosphere that presses down on the mercury in the reservoir. For example, under conditions of high atmospheric pressure, the mercury rises higher in the tube than when atmospheric pressure is low. In the tube, the mercury adjusts until the weight of the mercury in the column balances the atmospheric force.

In aneroid barometers, there is no moving liquid. Instead, a small flexible evacuated metal capsule is used. Inside the capsule is a spring. Small changes in atmospheric pressure cause the capsule to expand or contract. Lever mechanisms within the barometer amplify these small movements, allowing users to read pressure values. If the atmospheric pressure is falling, this change often indicates that stormy weather is likely. Rising air pressure suggests that fair weather with no precipitation is likely.

Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli is credited with inventing the barometer in 1643. In 1648, Blaise Pascal used a barometer to show that there is less air pushing down at the top of a mountain then there is at the bottom; thus, the atmosphere did not extend forever.
Matrioshka brain

A **Matrioshka brain** is a megastructure in space based on the Dyson sphere, of immense computational capacity. It ranges in size from an asteroid to an entire universe, where it can hold the energy of trillions of stars to drive insane computational power that can run simulations of an entire virtual universe.

It is an example of a Class B stellar engine, employing the entire energy output of a star to drive computer systems. The concept of a Matrioshka brain comes from the idea of using Dyson spheres to power an enormous, star-sized computer. The term originates from matryoshka dolls, which are wooden Russian nesting dolls. Matrioshka brains are composed of several Dyson spheres nested inside one another, the same way that matryoshka dolls are composed of multiple nested doll components. The innermost Dyson sphere of the Matrioshka brain would draw energy directly from the star it surrounds and give off large amounts of waste heat while computing at a high temperature. The next surrounding Dyson sphere would absorb this waste heat and use it for its computational purposes, all while giving off waste heat of its own. This heat would be absorbed by the next sphere, and so on, with each sphere giving off less heat than the one before it. For this reason, Matrioshka brains with more nested Dyson spheres would tend to be more efficient, as they would waste less heat energy. The inner shells could run at nearly the same temperature as the star itself, while the outer ones would be close to the temperature of interstellar space.

The engineering requirements and resources needed for this would be enormous. This could be used to simulate various cosmological structures:

Matrioshka brains are way beyond yottascale computing:

* 1.12×1036 FLOPS is its estimated computational power, assuming 1.87×1026 Watt power (possibly solar) and 6 GFLOPS/Watt efficiency. This is for Type I prototypes.
* 4×1048 FLOPS is its estimated computational power where the power source is the Sun, with the ideal thermodynamic efficiency of a Carnot engine. This is for Type II.
* 5×1058 FLOPS is the estimated power of a galaxy used by Matrioshka brains. This is for Type III.
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

The **Heisenberg uncertainty principle** states that the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time. The rule says that the product of the uncertainties in position and velocity is equal to or greater than Planck’s constant, so only for exceedingly small masses of atoms and subatomic particles does the product of the uncertainties become significant.

Any attempt to measure the velocity of an electron will knock it about in an unpredictable way so that a simultaneous measurement of its position has no validity. The uncertainty principle arises from the wave-particle duality. Every particle has a wave associated with it; a measurement of one observable involves a relatively large uncertainty in the measurement of the other.

The *double-slit experiment* is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both waves and particles. A laser beam illuminates a plate pierced by two parallel slits, and the light passing through the slits is observed on a screen behind the plate. Initially the light projected on the screen is a dot, and as the slit is made smaller, the dot becomes smaller, as expected. However, beyond a point of *uncertainty*, as the slit becomes very small, the dot widens. The light has actually taken two directions and spread out left and right.

In the diagram, a laser shines through a glass slab and as expected, its light is refracted at its angle of incidence through the slab and out the bottom. However, some of the light reflects off the top surface as well. Why do some photons choose to refract and others to reflect? This aptly demonstrates the uncertainty principle as well as duality.

A deep thought that arises from this, is that if photons and electrons can do it, then why not people, and why not universes? This makes the multiverse and beyond feasible.
Federation

The **United Federation of Planets** was an interstellar federal republic of the Star Trek universe, composed of planetary governments that agreed to exist semi-autonomously under a single central government based on the principles of universal liberty, rights, and equality, and to share their knowledge and resources in peaceful cooperation, scientific development, space exploration and defensive purposes. It was founded by the Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites.

One of the most powerful interstellar states in known space, it encompassed 8,000 light years.
Heliocentrism

Historically, geocentrism was popular in religious circles, which placed the Earth at the center of the universe. **Heliocentrism** is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe. In the sixteenth century this model was presented by the Renaissance mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Later, Johannes Kepler introduced elliptical orbits, and Galileo Galilei presented supporting observations made using a telescope. Later still it was realized that the Sun was not at the center of the Universe.

The understanding that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, and that it is not orbited by other planets and stars, changed people’s perception of their place in the universe forever. Copernicus’ theories helped to inspire a total rethink of our understanding of physics, influencing the concepts of gravity and inertia. These ideas were more fully articulated by Sir Isaac Newton, whose *Principia* formed the basis of modern physics and astronomy.

Beyond science, the discovery that the Earth was not at the centre of everything made many people question the very nature of their existence, and that of religion - earning scientists the ire of the Church in the process.
Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to electromagnetism.

Electricity is at the heart of Type 0 technologies, being used for:

* Electric power where electric current is used to energize equipment.
* Electronics which deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits.

The rapid expansion in electrical technology becomes a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

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In 1600 William Gilbert coined the Latin word *electricus* to refer to the property of attracting small objects after being rubbed. This gave rise to the words "electric" and "electricity".

In the 18th century Benjamin Franklin conducted extensive research in electricity, and in a famous experiment flew a kite in a storm-threatened sky. A succession of sparks jumping from the key to the back of his hand showed that lightning was indeed electrical in nature. He also explained the behavior of the Leyden jar as a device for storing static and electrical charge.
In 1791 Luigi Galvani published bioelectromagnetics, demonstrating that electricity was the medium by which neurons passed signals to the muscles.
Alessandro Volta's battery, or voltaic pile, of 1800, provided the world with a reliable source of electrical energy.

The recognition of electromagnetism, the unity of electric and magnetic phenomena, is due to Hans Christian Ørsted and André-Marie Ampère in 1819–1820. Michael Faraday’s contribution was that of electromagnetic induction in the 1820s. He noticed that when he moved a magnet through a stationary coil of wire, he always produced an electric current in the wire. This led him on to invent the electric motor.

Georg Ohm mathematically analyzed the electrical circuit in 1827 with the law of V=IR . Electricity and magnetism (and light) were definitively linked by James Clerk Maxwell from 1861. He suggested that changing the magnetic flux produced an electric field that not only caused electrons to flow in a nearby wire, but that the field also existed in space, even in the absence of electric charges. Maxwell expressed the change in magnetic flux and its relation to the induced electromotive force.

The late 19th century would see progress in electrical engineering through people such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla, turning electricity from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life.

In 1887, Heinrich Hertz discovered that electrodes illuminated with ultraviolet light create electric sparks more easily.

Albert Einstein's discovery of the photoelectric effect is also employed in photocells such as can be found in solar panels and this is used to make electricity commercially.

In the modern world, electricity and electronics are so ubiquitous that they are concealed in households and in devices that we take for granted.
Anthropic principle

The **anthropic principle** is a group of principles attempting to determine how statistically probable our observations of the universe are, given that we could only exist in a particular type of universe to start with. In other words, scientific observation of the universe would not even be possible if the laws of the universe had been incompatible with the development of sentient life. It supposedly explains why this universe has the age and the fundamental physical constants necessary to accommodate conscious life, since if either had been different, we would not be around to make observations in the first place.

Physical parameters of the universe appear to be *fine tuned* to permit life forms to evolve. For example, we owe our very lives to the element carbon, which was first manufactured in stars before the Earth formed. The nuclear reactions that facilitate the production of carbon have the appearance of being “just right” to facilitate carbon production. If all of the stars in the universe were heavier than three solar masses, they would live for only about 500 million years, and multicellular life would not have time to evolve. If the rate of the universe’s expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have collapsed before reaching its present size. On the other hand, the universe might have expanded so rapidly that protons and electrons never united to make hydrogen atoms. An extremely small change in the strength of gravity or of the nuclear weak force could prevent advanced life forms from evolving. An infinite number of random (non-designed) universes could exist, ours being just one that permits carbon-based life.

The **strong anthropic principle** (**SAP**) states that the universe is in some sense compelled to eventually have conscious and sapient life emerge within it.

The **weak anthropic principle** (**WAP**) states that the universe's fine tuning is the result of selection bias, which is that only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing and reflecting on the matter.

See also

Goldilocks Zone

Fermi Paradox

Origin of Life
Eru

**Eru** was the supreme deity and creator of Middle Earth in the Lord of the Rings Universe, but delegated almost all direct action to his children the Ainur. He is known also as the "All-Powerful", and he alone could create life or reality using the "Flame Imperishable".

Eru was transcendent, completely outside of and beyond the world. He first created the angelic Ainur. He then fashioned Eä, or all of existence, which was in the Void (or the Outside). The dwarves were created by the Ainur but consciousness was given to them by Eru. Elves and Mankind, however, came directly from Eru's thoughts.
Aeldari

The **Aeldari** or the **Eldar** are an ancient and highly advanced alien species whose vast empire once extended the width and breadth of the known galaxy in the Warhammer 40k Universe.

In its time, the Aeldari Empire was without equal in the galaxy and even death was no barrier to them.

In the 41st Millennium there are five major sub-cultures or kindreds of the Aeldari species: the Asuryani or Craftworld Aeldari, the Drukhari, the Harlequins, the Exodites, and the Ynnari.
Krasnikov tube

A **Krasnikov tube** is a mechanism for faster than light space travel involving the warping of spacetime into permanent superluminal tunnels. The resulting structure is analogous to a wormhole with the endpoints displaced in time as well as space. The tube is a distortion of spacetime that can be created in the wake of travel near the speed of light. The tube allows for a return trip that takes travelers back to the time right after they left. Experiencing the effect requires that the traveler race along the tube at speeds close to that of light.
Adverse

The **adverse** is the final realm inhabited by supreme beings who have breached the outerverse. This is a breakdown of non-reality physics, where pseudo-dimensions and non-reality intertwine, and where ADs (absolute dimensions) can be accessed. This is a strange place of logical inversion with outerverse-like structures which are unbound by space and time, but yet there exist quasi-dimensions or pseudo-dimensions that are uncountable and absolute-infinite. Thus the true nature of the adverse is chaos to anyone but a higher level supreme being.

The adverse is one quasi-dimensional structure within a multiad, which are within a megad or parad, which are contained in the omniad.
Laser Weapon

Gas lasers, chemical lasers and solid state lasers were generally used in medicine or industry, but had little use in warfare. Early laser weapons were inefficient, converting as little as 10% of the input energy into the output light beam. As technology advanced, so did laser efficiency, until laser weapons approached or exceeded 90% efficiency.

Early weapons were **heat rays** that cause damage primarily through thermal mechanisms. The energy of the beam directly heats the target, causing charring, melting, ignition, and vaporization. A continuous-wave High Energy Laser (HEL) beam is a focused ray of optical radiation, which simply delivers heat to the surface of a target.

Then came **blasters** which cause mechanical damage by emitting ultra-short pulses of extreme intensity, causing matter to flash suddenly into plasma. The resulting explosion creates a shockwave which causes damage comparable to a heat ray with one tenth to one hundredth the amount of input energy.

Lasers adopt a wide range of wavelengths from the electromagnetic spectrum. Visible and near visible wavelengths have the best performance in an atmosphere and x-ray wavelengths are ideal for space combat, due to their extremely short wavelengths that allow them to be focused at long distances.

 Diode Lasers
 Optical Phased Arrays

The superlaser on the Death Star in Star Wars used an optical phased array which merged several separate "super laser beams" into a single exceedingly powerful beam, capable of obliterating an entire planet with one shot at full power.
Great Old Ones (Lovecraft)

The **Great Old Ones** are a group of unique, malignant beings of great power in the Lovecraft Universe that once presided over the Earth as gods and rulers.

Cthulhu is a Great Old One who was spawned from an Outer God called Yog-Sothoth.

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*"That is not dead which can eternal lie.*
*And with strange aeons even death may die."*

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"*When the stars have come right for the Great Old Ones, some force from outside must serve to liberate their bodies. The spells that preserved them intact likewise prevented them from making an initial move."*
Humans (Fifth Element)

The Fifth Element involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of an unlikely human and humanity's saviour who join forces to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of Earth against an impending attack.

Every five thousand years, The Great Evil appears whose purpose is to destroy all life. In preparation for its next appearance in 2263, the Mondoshawan arrive on Earth in 1914 to extract the only weapon capable of defeating the it: four stones with classical elements, and the Fifth Element. This takes the form of a human-looking woman named "Leeloo" described as "the perfect being", and she joins forces with a taxi driver Dallas to defeat the Great Evil. They return to the temple where the Mondoshawans first arrived, as the Great Evil rushes towards Earth. They arrange the stones in the temple to form the weapon, and eventually Leeloo releases the weapon's "Divine Light", causing the Great Evil to become a new moon in Earth's orbit.
Ecumenopolis

An **ecumenopolis** is a world city or planet-wide city. As a Type 0 civilization progresses towards 1, urban areas and megalopolises would eventually fuse and there could be a single continuous worldwide city as a progression from urbanization, population growth, transport and human networks.

A planet spanning city is only sustainable if there is a sufficient and steady import of food and resources from nearby planets or star systems. This is more plausible for a Type I civilization.

Growth would typically be from the ground up, with the entire surface covered in "sky scrapers." However, if severe climate change happens, desperate measures would have to be taken by to adapt. In that case, underground facilities or "earth scrapers" would be a viable option. These can reach hundreds of meters below the Earth's surface and use new materials and structural techniques. Self-sufficient power generation, production of food and water, fully automated recycling, and heat management are common in these underground facilities. Some facilities are powered by fusion, while others have access to geothermal energy if placed in the appropriate geographical location. Movie theaters, gyms, spas, virtual reality, and other features ensure that occupants are kept stimulated and free of claustrophobia. Most of these underground living areas provide the advantage of being essentially immune to nuclear weapons, as well as various other global threats. As the number of residents in these underground living areas reach into the tens of millions, they will be joined by a network of hyperloop tunnels that connect countries and continents to each other. Many of the design principles in these facilities could be employed on the Moon and Mars or even hollowed-out asteroids.

When planetary cities grow in an unsystematic and unplanned manner beyond normal boundaries, due to increases in population and industry, so that their suburbs merge into the suburbs of neighboring cities, the result is a vast extended metropolis called a *sprawl*. These megacities can merge and sprawl across a planet. If it goes beyond the planet it is called a swarm where there could be thousands or millions of habitats surrounding a star.

An example of an ecumenopolis is Coruscant.
Hypernova

A **hypernova** (or **collapsar**) is a very energetic supernova when a massive star (>30 solar masses) collapses to form a rotating black hole emitting twin energetic jets and surrounded by an accretion disk. They release energy an order of magnitude higher than most supernovae, and produce long gamma ray bursts.

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Computing scales

These are **computing** **scales.** Computation is measured in floating point operations per second (FLOPS). Data is in bits where 8 bits = 1 byte.

A quote by Vijay Balasubramanian in this article: *"...the laws of nature as we write them down are fundamentally constrained by the thoughts we can think. A cat can’t understand calculus, and it’s not obvious that humans can understand everything either. I studied computer science because I wanted to understand the limits of the computer in my head."*
Midi-chlorian

**Midi-chlorians** were microscopic, intelligent life forms that originated from the foundation of life in the center of the galaxy in Star Wars, and ultimately resided within the cells of all living organisms, thereby forming a symbiotic relationship with their hosts. The Force spoke through the midi-chlorians, allowing certain beings to use the Force if they were sensitive enough to its powers. In order to gauge an individual's potential in the Force, blood tests were used to estimate the number of midi-chlorians within the subject's cells. Anakin Skywalker possessed the highest known count in galactic history—over twenty-thousand midi-chlorians—surpassing the potential of Grand Master Yoda and all Jedi.
Artificial wormhole

There are different levels of artificial wormhole construction:

A Type I or higher civilization may build a particle accelerator the size of the asteroid belt. A circular beam of protons would be sent around the belt, guided by gigantic magnets. On Earth, particles are sent inside a large circular tube containing a vacuum. But since the vacuum of outer space is better than any vacuum on the Earth, this accelerator does not need a tube at all. All it needs is a series of gigantic magnetic stations placed strategically around the belt, making a circular path for the proton beam. Each time the protons go past a station, a surge of electrical energy powers the magnets, which kick the proton beam so that it moves to the next station at the correct angle. Each time the proton beam passes by a magnetic station, more energy is pumped into the beam in the form of laser power, until it gradually reaches the Planck energy. Once the accelerator attains this energy, it can focus that energy onto a single point. A wormhole should open up there. It would then be injected with enough negative energy to stabilize it so it doesn’t collapse.

Type II or higher use a forge (sometimes called a *weylforge*) which consists of an entire array of devices all handling different aspects of wormhole construction. Power needed is about 3% to 10% of the daily power output of the Sun (about 1030 J). This is generated by collector arrays orbiting the nearest star, or conversion reactors operating either beneath a local stellar surface or in close proximity to the forge using material collected from the local Kuiper belt or Oort Cloud. The energy collected is transmitted to the forge in the form of high power laser or maser beams and then stored using magmatter-based capacitor systems built into the wormhole production module. To produce a wormhole, the forge first accumulates energy in its capacitors while carefully aligning a seed and each element in the production module to ensure that all of the particle beams produced by the accelerator arrays will strike at precisely the right time and angle with energies approaching that of the Big Bang itself. This creates rifts in the quantum foam and a wormhole is briefly captured and held stable for many times longer than it would normally persist. The extraction kernel activates and induces a state of extreme vacuum fluctuation in the fabric of spacetime at the center of the forge. These vacuum fluctuations are fed into the temporarily stable wormhole, gradually converting it into a usable gateway and eventually self-maintaining and sufficiently stable to allow transit of interstellar traffic.

Likely only with Type III a hyper-forge uses the energy output of a neutron star rather than a conventional sun for power. Hyper-forges employ a modified Matrioshka multi-shell design to capture as much of the neutron star's output as possible. Neutron stars radiate from 20,000 to 100,000 times the energy of a Sun-type star.
Cardassians

The Cardassians were a humanoid species from Star Trek. They were native to the planet Cardassia Prime, capital world of the Cardassian Union. Known throughout the Alpha Quadrant for being extremely ruthless, the Cardassians became one of the greatest enemies of the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, when the Cardassian Union joined the Dominion in 2373. Cardassians had a xenophobic attitude towards other species, which was well established throughout the quadrant after the Setlik III massacre during the Cardassian Border Wars, as well as when Cardassian atrocities during the Occupation of Bajor were revealed after they withdrew from the planet Bajor in 2369.

Cardassians and many of the Milky Way's species all shared a common ancestry back to the Ancient Humanoids and the DNA code they produced and seeded across the galaxy. Though each evolved under separate conditions from each other, their shared DNA allowed these species to remain roughly compatible and viable with each other.
Goa'uld

The Goa'uld are a race of sentient parasitic beings from the Stargate Universe. They take over hosts and species that can serve as hosts include humans and Unas. They originated on the planet designated P3X-888. They are also extremely egomaniacal due to their genetic memory and the adverse mental effects of the Sarcophagus technology. Goa'uld means "god" in the Goa'uld language. Races which will not serve them are completely destroyed without compromise or mercy whatsoever.

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Goa'uld
Magnetic Weapon

Magnetic weapons typically use electromagnets in the configuration of a linear motor that accelerate projectiles to high velocity. The projectile normally does not contain explosives, instead relying on the projectile's high speed, mass, and kinetic energy to inflict damage.

Coilguns generally consist of one or more coils arranged along a barrel, so the path of the accelerating projectile lies along the central axis of the coils. The coils are switched on and off in a precisely timed sequence, causing the projectile to be accelerated quickly along the barrel via magnetic forces.

 Railgun

**Helical railguns** are multi-turn railguns that reduce rail and brush current by a factor equal to the number of turns. Two rails are surrounded by a helical barrel and the projectile or re-usable carrier is cylindrical. The projectile is energized continuously by two brushes sliding along the rails, and two or more additional brushes on the projectile serve to energize and commute several windings of the helical barrel direction in front of and/or behind the projectile. The helical railgun is a cross between a railgun and a coilgun.

A **plasma railgun** is a linear accelerator which, like a projectile railgun, uses two long parallel electrodes to accelerate a "sliding short" armature. However, in a plasma railgun, the armature and ejected projectile consists of plasma instead of a solid slug of material.
 MAC | The **Magnetic Accelerator Cannon**, also known as a **Mass Accelerator Cannon**, is a large coilgun that serves as the primary offensive weapon for warships or orbital defense platforms in the Halo Universe.
Ao

Lord **Ao** was an Overgod in the Forgotten Realms Universe. Also known as the One Who Is Hidden, he was credited with creating the cosmos and all the gods, and brought order out of chaos, so that worlds could exist.

In some traditions, Ao just created the sphere that covered Realmspace (one of the realms in the material plane), and the goddesses Selûne and Shar, and they later went to create all the worlds and stars, and other heavenly bodies. In other accounts, it was Ao who directly created all that exists, not only Realmspace, but also the worlds and heavenly bodies. Ao himself claimed to be the creator of the gods, though not of the Realms themselves (which may have been attributed to Io).
Gamma-ray burst

**Gamma-ray bursts** (**GRBs**) are immensely energetic but rare electromagnetic cosmic explosions releasing around 1043W to 1047W . These can be caused by various cosmic events like a supernova or hypernova, a merger of neutron stars, a black hole formation, a magnetar, or a tidal disruption event when a star interacts with a supermassive black hole.

A typical cosmic burst releases as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime and are extremely rare (a few per galaxy per million years). A GRB event in the Milky Way, pointing directly towards the Earth, could cause a mass extinction event. The major Ordovician–Silurian extinction events 450 million years ago may have been caused by a GRB.

They could also be on a much smaller scale, such as the short bursts during EMPs.
Internet

The **Internet** (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses a global protocol standard to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services via World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.

Most traditional communication media, including telephony, radio, television, paper mail and newspapers are reshaped, redefined, or even bypassed by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as email, Internet telephony, Internet television, online music, digital newspapers, and video streaming websites. Newspaper, book, and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging, web feeds and online news aggregators. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of personal interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking services. Online shopping has grown exponentially for major retailers, small businesses, and entrepreneurs, as it enables firms to extend their "brick and mortar" presence to serve a larger market or even sell goods and services entirely online.

The Internet has no single centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own policies. This was a key technology to move a Type 0 civilization towards Type I due to unprecedented, accelerated knowledge sharing.
Graphene

**Graphene** is a carbon-based material which is a single layer of graphite. It has a similar bonding structure to carbon nanotubes and fullerenes. They are excellent conductors of heat and electricity and are about 100 times stronger than steel. A thin sheet of graphene is almost transparent, making it an extremely strong substitute for glass.

Graphene’s discoverers, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.

Other uses for graphene include electronics, biological engineering, filtration, lightweight/strong composite materials, photovoltaics, energy storage, paints and coatings, lubricants, oils and functional fluids, capacitors and batteries, thermal management applications, display materials and packaging.

Applications include:

* nanocoils
* nanoribbons
* quantum dots
* carbon fiber
* aerogel
* solar cells
* light-emitting diodes (LED)
* replacing silicon in high-performance electronic devices
* touch panels, smart windows and touch screens on phones
* due to heat-resistance up to 3000 °C, used in reentry shields for missile nosecones, solid rocket engines, high temperature reactors, brake shoes and electric motor brushes.
* tennis racquets
* graphene-infused printer powder and 3D printer materials
Black hole starship

A **black hole starship** enables faster-than-light travel by propelling a starship by using a black hole or kugelblitz as the energy source. It would use the immense gravitational pull of a black hole by using its gravity well as a slingshot to accelerate the starship to very high speeds.

A black hole starship offers some advantages compared to other possible methods. For example, in nuclear fusion or nuclear fission, only a small proportion of the mass is converted into energy, so enormous quantities of material would be needed. One possibility is antimatter, but the manufacturing of antimatter is hugely energy-inefficient, and is difficult to contain.
Kilonova

A **kilonova** (or **macronova**) is an astronomical event that occurs when two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole merge into each other. Kilonovae are thought to emit short gamma-ray bursts and strong electromagnetic radiation due to the radioactive decay of heavy r-process nuclei that are produced and ejected during the event.

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