: You mean, like the way the Mythworld is a simulation
: running on a Maraverse computer? Yeah, but you still
: get to ask where that "higher" universe came
: from. Sooner or later, something either created itself
: or was eternal (I'm counting a place where "time
: has no meaning" as eternal).
The higher universe (lets call it a reality) came from a still higher reality. Which was created in another, still higher reality. And so on infinitely. SOMEONE has to write the most basic rules of a reality; they don't just spring into existance for no good reason (though the most basic rule of a given reality could be that the other rules spring into existance for no good reason; but then that would have to be conceived by something in a higher reality, still). It's infinite.
It seems there's many types of infinite universal layers. There's black holes, inside which could be whole other universes, with black holes of their own, etc; of course there is a lower limit of complexity when you get down to a single planck-hypercube. Our universe could very well meet the specifications of a black hole, in which case it could be inside a larger universe outside, still in our own reality.
Then there's fabrics of space-time. Ours, I have postulated, is 6-dimensional: three of space, one of time & gravity, and one of the other forces and probability. (I could elaborate if you'd like). I believe it to by a hypertauroid. However, when thinking about lower-dimensional equivalents, I came across something interesting. Start with a 1-dimensional enclosed space; two dots of reality separated by a bunch of nothing. Now spin the whole line with one dot as the axis. You get a ring.
Now spin the inner dot around the tangent of every point on the ring, through the third dimension; you get a taurus, intersecting the dot but not the ring which is completely unconnected to either. But now spin every point on the ring around every point on the taurus' surface, in a fourth dimension. You get a hypertauroid intersecting the ring but not the taurus or the dot.
Follow this up indefinitely; you'll find every fabric of spacetime with an even number of dimensions intersects the other even-numbered ones, while the odds intersect other odds. In the end, you get two infinite arrays of space-times intricately woven in and around eachother but never physically connecting.
Interesting, eh?
