\r\nThis was written December 17th, 2025<\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\nExcerpt from The Guide to the Compendium (Formerly known as the Multiverse)<\/h2>\r\n
\r\nIntroduction by S.M. Hamilton:<\/b><\/i>\r\n<\/p>
\r\nAs is common knowledge nowadays, it is rather ironic how, prior to the reform, they\r\nwere still so close to having adequate nomenclature to what they used to label as the\r\nMultiverse, yet it ultimately fell short. Their vision of the Multiverse was, in truth,\r\nboth idealistic and limited. The parallels and association with poetry should already\r\nhave been clear. Now, let us dive a bit further into our glossary.\r\n<\/p>
\r\nFirst, we note how we’ve kept the term “Universe”, which felt rather adequate. That is\r\na single and distinct entity, which some also simply call a ‘Verse. Now, what about a\r\ncollection of Universes? Well, we used to think there was a single collection of universes,\r\nthat it was simply all universes together. The term was labelled as the “Multiverse”.\r\nBut this is a bit too narrow of a terminology. Ultimately, from any Universe, we can\r\nexpect one of two potential options. Either this universe is materially isolated, or it\r\nis, in some way, capable of transferring matter to at least one other Universe.\r\n(Yes, we accept that ultimately, this is indistinguishable from both Universes not\r\nintersecting and identical matter spontaneously disappearing in one and appearing in\r\nthe other, as first proposed by N.L. Gauss).\r\n<\/p>
\r\nFor the complete chain of universes that can exchange matter, we label this collection\r\nas a Stanza, a collection of ‘Verses directly connected to one-another. Accordingly, from\r\nany Universe, it would be impossible to ever a Universe outside of its own Stanza.\r\nReminder that testing whether two Universes belong to the same Stanza is an equivalence\r\nrelation: It must, by definition, respect reflexivity, symmetry and transition.\r\n<\/p>
\r\nHowever, we do not enforce any of those properties in the actual<\/i> travel between\r\nuniverses (except for, vacuously, for reflexivity). Thus, it could be completely\r\npossible for universes S1<\/sub>, S2<\/sub> in Stanza S to be such that you can go from S1<\/sub> to S2<\/sub>,\r\nbut not from S2<\/sub> to S1<\/sub>. Similarly, since we only require existence<\/i> of this property,\r\nit doesn’t need to hold for all time, thus potentially breaking transition.\r\nAccordingly, from a single Universe’s point of view, a Stanza represents a super-set of\r\nall the Universes that could ever be reached (including through n-Universe-jumps, with n>1).\r\n<\/p> \r\nBy definition, no Universe in a Stanza can exchange matter with any universe in another\r\nStanza (No two Stanzas exchange matter). However, Universes in one Stanza could\r\nstill exchange information<\/i> with a Universe from another Stanza. (The mechanics of which\r\nare not necessarily intuitive, considering the Matter-Energy Equivalency). The closure\r\nof such Stanzas is what we call a Poem, a collection of related Stanzas that share a\r\nsimilar theme, the same set of information.\r\n<\/p> \r\nUltimately, from the point of view of a single Universe U, the Poem it belongs to, P(U),\r\nrepresents a superset of all Universes it could ever get news from, or that could ever\r\nget news about U. The same properties hold for a Poem as for a Stanza and we shall\r\ntherefore defer such considerations to the reader.\r\n<\/p> \r\nIn the end, any Universe existing outside of one’s Poem is one that could never be\r\ninteracted with or detected. Accordingly, those are rather uninteresting, and their\r\nexistence is irrelevant. We could not distinguish whether such Universes exist or not.\r\nBut ultimately, we still have a term for the collection of all Universes (all Stanzas,\r\nall Poems), we call it the Compendium, or sometimes the Poem Compendium. It is what once\r\nwas simply referred to as the Multiverse.\r\n<\/p> \r\nNow, these serve as a base for our Nomenclature, but are by no means the only terms we’ll\r\nconsider. In the first few chapters, we’ll discuss some of more useful considerations\r\nthan impractical supersets. Still, these terms will be necessary for the upcoming discussions,\r\nand should serve as a good base for any discussion about the Compendium.\r\n<\/p> \r\nFor more…<\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was written December 17th, 2025 Excerpt from The Guide to the Compendium (Formerly known as the Multiverse) Introduction by S.M. Hamilton: As is common knowledge nowadays, it is rather ironic how, prior to the reform, they were still so close to having adequate nomenclature to what they used to label as the Multiverse, yet … Continue reading Writing Challenge 2025 \u2013 20 – Excerpt from The Guide to the Compendium (Formerly known as the Multiverse)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}