To Build a Universe

beyond the brink
beyond the Planck
beyond the before
beyond the after
beyond the big bang
beyond the big bounce
beyond the big crack
beyond the big whimper
beyond the beyond

the Realm of all possibility
let’s call this the Protoverse

the continuity whereby something
always out-trumps nothing
unbounded openness, pressure fluctuating
twixt nought and not much more

propensities permeate the flux
creative chaos cavorts, shapes swirl
forms flicker and self-fulfil
spontaneous hotspots heave into view
tendencies tend tumbling forward

realities emerge, energies gather,
enclosures corral the thinness of immensity,
orders augment, fates await
spasmodic step-change
evaporation, implosion
descent into entropic torpor

an intricate dancing trio weaves a weft of
interwoven waltz
boundary shapes, endurance times, doing does
potentials blow bubbles, fold dimensions,
propagate Realms and form Organisms

mingling monopoles repulse, dispersing
sliver strings jiggle, joining lonely looping
bipolar ends of one-dimensional existence
rings encircle, suspending flimsy films of
two-dimensional contingency
energetic winds blow against these membranes
three-dimensions protruding
some break free expanding as four-dimensional
untethered bubbles

appear to disappear, occasionally enduring
four bubbles mutually conjoin
then, an outer fifth touches, envelopes and
sustains the configuration
from within, Realms emerge
and combine into one Organism
let’s call this the Quintoverse
a five-bubble Organism

the Protoverse continues to conjure
Organisms behind the scene
the forever blower of bubbles
the sequence of blowing and the stirring of
ingredients underscore the music of 
the spheres and bubble individuality

the Rapture, mysterious outer bubble
the last one of the five to inflate
the protective Realm caresses each of the
inner four, fine tuner of intra-bubble balance
born from chaos, guardian of emerging order
from the inside, no view of the beyond
looking in, only another Organism can behold
such an awesome beauty
transparent, translucent nakedness beaming out

the Quantoverse, the first inner bubble
to be blown
the quirky quantum Realm full of uncertainty
two-faced incredulous chameleon with 
functions waving across an osmotic ocean
realities collapsing through the bubble interface
reimagined as the mother of constants
the enigma of alpha, the speed of light
the never-ending circling pi
source of initial conditions, scale, symmetry,
transition, gradients and the strength of fields
resolved in the bubble mixing broth

fundamentals festoon the bubble’s liquid skin
smudged occurrence and smeared
appearance, floating moments exuding charm,
strangeness, charge, momentum, spin,
colour and mass
the converter of energy to matter
virtuality flexed with probability,
entanglement and superposition infiltrating and
quantum tunnelling to the bubbles beyond

our Cosmos, the second internal bubble
to inflate
the cosmic Realm positively curves away from
the flattened indent, the home of humanity
dark energy drives inflation, the initial breath
of the Protoverse
spacetime expansion derives from differential
pressure between the Protoverse and
the Quintoverse
Antiverse annihilation hastens this expansion
the stuff of doing filters through from
the Quantoverse
quantum exchanges produce forceful bosons,
impacting the menagerie of wave-like
particles, the hadrons and fermions

gravity profoundly influences the spreading
pattern of force and matter across the
cosmic face
black holes bridge from extremes of
spacetime contortion and matter compaction
to the Gravoverse at the Quintoverse core
cooling temperature, information loss,
the rise of entropy and the arrow of time
are caught up with inflation, expansion
and the bubble’s future, yet to be determined

delve down to greet the Quantoverse
look up towards the Quintoverse birth
in the microwave skies
on the journey from the bottom up,
the Cosmos originates life, evolution,
awareness and empathy
life forms reside on the three-dimensional
spacetime surface where positive feedback
grows exponentially
the fourth dimension inhabits the enduring,
enlarging bubble itself
experience this endurance as time passing

gaze through the plasma, gas and dust
through the stars and galaxies
to the dawn of the bubble-blown Quintoverse
witness gargantuan galactic filaments and
great attractors betray the presence of the
inner bubbles and the Gravoverse
the touch-point of the Rapture can also
be discerned as a weird ovoid presence
pulsing with prime number rhythms

the Antiverse internal bubble, a mirror
to the Cosmos; an incompatible twin
the third one to emerge
the source of antimatter; the anti Realm
anti black holes connect with the Gravoverse
anti-life, is this even a possibility?
interaction between the Cosmos and
Antiverse promotes matter annihilation,
disparity, radiation and accelerating
bubble expansion

the Gravoverse is not a bubble but dwells 
in the sealed geometry between the inner four
the gavitational Realm
the blackhole heart of the Quintoverse
shaped and bounded by the bubble
curvature above and by the deforming vacuum
in the void, the source of gravity
connecting black holes reinforce coherence
and provide the inner scaffold to the 
Quintoverse architecture

the Quintessence internal bubble
is so very special
as the fourth bubble to be blown
it completes the Gravoverse seal
possesses an unique recipe of energetic
spacetime
a transformative top-down singular but
multi-faceted intelligence accumulates
within the bubble fabric
this is the becoming mind of the Quintoverse 
the feed-back and purposing Realm
an informative and holographic record
evolving as the ultra-logical, mathematical,
linguistic, thoughtful and feeling brain
of the Quintoverse

in one sense or another, life in the Cosmos
can be sampled, cuddled, replayed, relaunched
and reprocessed by the Quintessence
the essential purpose of the Quintessence is to
experience all levels of consciousness,
to overcome entropy, to enhance knowledge
to contact and embrace other Organisms
across the Protoversic chasm
to create an universal community of
unfathomable beings, the playground of
Organisms, their thoughts and feelings
running free

the Protoverse plus an infinity of Realms,
Organisms and other possibilities,
together promote the emergent but continuous
everything; the ubiquitous UNIVERSE

or maybe this is all bunkum! or maybe not!
there is a bit of truth in every description
of reality in the swell of emergent approximation

now there y’ar then!
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