SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM

To put it in very simple terms, the space-time continuum is our universe. When most people think of dimensions, they only think in terms of spacial dimensions (up-down, right-left, forward-backward). These are the dimensions through which we have a certain limited amount of control over our movement. However, there is another dimension through which we have no control of our movement, time. Excluding relativistic effects, time just keeps moving forward. We can't slow, stop, or reverse it, but it is something with which we must deal.

Whenever we describe an object's place in the universe, there is a time factor involved as well as a spacial location. For example, if I give some one my address, that assumes that I am living at that address right now. It's not the same address at which I was living just a year ago. So, space and time are both parts of our universe. However, since most people tend not to think about time in this context, the term space-time continuum was coined as a means of emphasizing times importance.

Some theories propose that multiple planes exist, with each plane having it's own continuum. The multiple plane theory is split into three main theories.

1. Parallel Universalists: Each plane of existence is separate from the other, and runs parallel to all other planes. Time and space are self-contained to each plane. There are an infinite number of Parallel Planes. Since parallel lines do not meet, and each has it's own time-space continuum it's impossible to move from one plane to another.



2. Universal Wheelers: Space exists on an infinite number of planes, but Time surrounds all. Each plane revolves around a central axis and out in all directions - not only on in an X-Y direction, but also in A,B,C....Z... ad infinitum....

To simplfy things - think of a wagon wheel with a central "hub". The hub is the point of space (or planes) convergence. The spokes are each plane. The rim is time, which encompasses all. If you were to journey to the HUB, it's theorized, you would exist in all planes at all times simultaneously. Or to put it another way - you would be everywhere at everywhen.

Dopplegangers are said to be anecdotal evidence of people entering and passing through the hub. If you have ever seen yourself passing you on the street - it could just be a mistake in perception, or it could be another "you" from another plane passing through the Hub on the way to the pub.


3. Wigglies: Although not an entirely separate theory from the previous mentioned two theories - Wigglies see each plane not as straight rigid lines, but rather as wiggly lines undulating through their own time.

Sometimes these wiggly planes "bump" into each other and temporarily merge. Debate still rages whether the wiggly bumps create wormholes or do they create temporary rifts?

Be they rifts or wormholes - they do allow passage from one plane to another. If you were to pass through such a hole, you would enter another plane. However, if you could detect the hole, but not enter it, it's theorized you would be able to "time scan" other planes as an observer.