Talk:ALLverse/@comment-447226-20161215170209/@comment-27944130-20161215172015

I admit this page is really shittily written, as are a lot of the pages on alldimensions. I really don't care too much about this particular wiki overall. I do, however, care when people whine and moan about a fandom and fail to realize that, like any other fandom, it's about fiction.

If the Universe is all of space and time, which includes just about every interpretation of "universe" I've read, then alternate spacetime systems may not necessarily be the same universe. We've got three spacial dimensions and one temporal dimension, and as far as we can tell the temporal one is finite so far, and the spacial ones might be. This means that if there's a boundary of some kind, we can imagine another spacetime system with different dimensional extents. Hence the idea of the type-II or bubble multiverse.

Or you can start from quantum mechanics and create a new universe for every possible chain of events. As a result, there's an infinite (or very large finite?) number of universes that never existed but could have. Type-III multiverse right there.

People have written of multiverses, and megaverses, and whateververses, for years. Marvel has an omniverse, and realms, and all sorts of other stuff. The Xeelee Sequence details an alien species attempting to leave the universe. Are these things therefore "just brainwanking" and so wrong that they are not even allowed to write about them fictionally?

Of course, we have no idea if these things even exist; if they do, they're not going to be detectable with any technology I can imagine humanity developing any time soon. But the subjects of your favorite wikis - Touhou, Terraria, Star Wars, and the Elder Scrolls - are imaginary as well. Should I go complain over on these wikis that "girls can't fly and shoot laser bullets, that breaks the laws of physics" or "lightsabers are really just plasma weapons, because that's the way they'll work in reality"? Of course not.