OBS Chapter 246 Setting
Chapter 246 Setting
In the universe of the Honkai series and Genshin Impact, there are super-dimensional higher-level management spaces called the "Tree of Imaginary Numbers" and the "Sea of Quantum".
The metaphor of the tree and the sea
There was a huge tree, its top was so high that one could not see the horizon, and its branches and leaves blocked out the sky.
Beneath the tree lay a vast ocean, its depth unfathomable, its boundaries unreachable.
There was only one tree and one sea between heaven and earth, and so they began an endless competition.
The sea continued to expand and swell, and the giant tree continued to take root and grow. One wanted to drown the other, and the other wanted to absorb the other.
The tree spent countless years under the nourishment of the sea, and it branched out into countless branches and produced more than 500 flowers and leaves.
In this endless process, in some insignificant corner, among some new leaf buds, the civilization called human was born.
Time flows on the trunk of the tree of imaginary numbers, and like its crown, it branches out into infinite worlds.
Each branch is a form of civilization.
Every petal and leaf represents their present and past left in the dimension of time.
The Tree of Imaginary Numbers was called by Bianca "the law of the operation of the universe, the mystery of the cycle of life, and the place where all essences and roots are formed", and by Otto "the eternal moment, the origin of the end, and the birthplace of all truths and laws".
It is known that only the complete Second God's Key, Thousand Worlds One Vehicle, can open the door to where the Imaginary Number Tree is.
Human research in modern civilization has discovered that, from a mathematical point of view, imaginary internal energy is the energy form of the collapsed dimension, and the real internal energy of the four-dimensional space-time as the divergent dimension can be expressed in a unified manner through high-dimensional complex functions. The result can predict the fluctuations of collapse on a microscopic scale.
Therefore, current researchers generally speculate that this "imaginary internal energy" is the collapse energy, or at least an important component of the collapse energy.
Dr. Mara of the Venus civilization mentioned in a letter to "Sa" that she had discovered a large-scale imaginary internal energy tidal belt at the edge of the solar system.
Under the influence of the solar wind, there are widespread fluctuations in imaginary internal energy at locations thousands of astronomical units away from the sun.
The scale of these energies is so huge that its fluctuations hinder almost all forms of interstellar travel, perhaps only comparable to the "Cocoon of the End".
These imaginary internal energies at the edge of the solar system are not controlled by the "Cocoon of the End" and are pure and free energy.
This is the conclusion reached by the Destiny Organization from its research on the Tree of Imaginary Numbers: outside this world, time also has its own laws, and it will not degenerate into absolute chaos and disorder.
There, the reversal of time is free, no different from all other spatial dimensions. On this basis, it follows some more basic laws and is subject to various energy constraints like other dimensions.
It is precisely some of these specific constraints that fix the direction of time in certain subspaces, allowing everything therein to be reorganized from "infinite" to "finite". This is why the real number world exists.
"Time moves forward" is not an absolutely basic law. It is actually a result of the "existence" of our world.
Precisely because the world in which humans live exists stably, no force can interfere with the passage of time.
But the situation is different in the case of the tree of imaginary numbers, because existence like it transcends the scope of "world".
The Imaginary Number Tree is equivalent to a server that records game data. The game server named "Imaginary Number Tree" can use the archived data of any game at any time to generate a new, parallel world.
At this special space-time location of the "starting point of the parallel world", the "other" does not exist yet, and there is only one "reality".
For those who experience this one reality, the future they choose is the future they will have.
In fact, this situation may happen every moment, but we will never be able to realize the changes from a subjective perspective.
From a personal perspective, there is no turning back in a person's life journey, and all choices are made only once. However, relying on the tree of imaginary numbers, new futures and possibilities can be created.
The metaphor of the quantum sea
If we think of our universe as a glass of water, then there are countless similar but different glasses of water around it.
When the water in the cup overflows, it flows along the wall of the cup and gathers into a small puddle in the center of the table. This "puddle" does not belong to any "cup", but every drop of "water" in the puddle may come from any "cup".
People in the pre-civilization era discovered that there is indeed such a magical dimension between parallel universes. They called the "puddle" between the "cups" the "quantum sea."
It has existed since the beginning of the universe, but most of the time, it is as desolate as the universe at its beginning.
After a long time, it produced some kind of accidental induction with the planet in the intrinsic world. This "induction", or "symmetry breaking", created "time" in the quantum sea where there was originally nothing.
With the evolution of time, various spaces are constantly born and disappear. Most of them are just shadows of the original world and are destined to be fleeting.
But occasionally, some worlds would survive tenaciously for various reasons. They constantly replenished nutrients from the outside world and maintained their inherent existence like living things.
They operate according to their own rules, and theoretically, they may even be able to hatch their own "powers".
Drifting alone in the quantum sea, away from the world bubble, anything in the normal world will be at risk of decaying and disappearing. Everything in the quantum sea will naturally decay with the passage of time and eventually disintegrate in chaos.
The quantum sea is composed of a substance called "ether", which will naturally form various "membranes" during the "fluctuation", and these "membranes" have the opportunity to evolve into "world bubbles". The quantum sea is the "ocean" that contains all the "world bubbles".
The "Quantum Ocean" is not a real ocean. It does not belong to a specific planet, nor is it made of liquid fluids such as water.
It is a "foundation" comparable to the tree of imaginary numbers, a "medium" that can carry various possible worlds.
Regarding the metaphor of the world bubble: it can be understood as a bathtub full of bubbles.
When someone takes a bath, some of the bubbles will reflect that person's shadow. Because what is actually preserved in these bubbles is the shadow of the so-called "real world", they are "world bubbles".
The size of world bubbles varies. The larger the world bubble, the closer it is to the real world and the less likely it is to be spontaneously affected by external changes. Conversely, those miniature world bubbles can serve as a mirror of the real world.
Based on the sea of trees, the development of the world needs constraints. In the competition between the tree of imaginary numbers and the sea of quantum, the direction of growth of branches and leaves is constantly screened and corrected by a mechanism.
A naturally formed mechanism, a mechanism derived from imaginary numbers, a mechanism of nurturing and nourishing, a mechanism of baptism and elimination.
For humans, that is a disaster called collapse. Humans can never escape collapse, they can only move forward, because the tree of imaginary numbers must grow.
Otherwise, it will eventually wither like those failed worlds and become another bubble in the quantum ocean. If human beings want to obtain permanent tranquility, they must return to the starting point of civilization and return to imaginary numbers.
In the "original world" where humans live, the Cocoon of the End is the rule that dominates destruction.
Within the solar system, the source of collapse is the "Cocoon of the End". The Cocoon of the End controls everything related to collapse at the end of imaginary numbers. All the Herrschers are connected to the Cocoon of the End in some secret way, not the "Tree of Imaginary Numbers".
About the method of reconnecting the World Bubble and the Tree of Imaginary Numbers.
For a large world bubble, it can only survive by continuously absorbing external energy to achieve dynamic balance, but absorbing too much energy will also have side effects.
If you want to reconnect to the tree of imaginary numbers, you will need additional help. You can use the function of "Orchiddale", a weapon built in the previous civilization era that is comparable to the Key of God, to establish a stable connection. For small world bubbles, special technology can be used to allow the world bubble to survive in other worlds, or the world bubble can be certified as a "new world" to obtain assistance.
Another method is to use a monster called "Imaginary Tree God Skeleton·Mysticism" and use "renormalization" to allow it to establish a channel with the Imaginary Tree, but the probability of using this method to naturally connect the World Bubble back to the Imaginary Tree is not high.
Even if the connection is established, if the world bubble itself does not have an available anchor point and cannot stabilize the world bubble, then the world bubble will gradually be forced to merge with the "intrinsic world" and directly disappear.
Regarding ether anchor points, the technology mastered by previous civilizations that can build a "miniature universe" was originally used to emit Honkai energy.
The ether anchor point is a topological transformation between "plane manifolds", which may be some kind of natural structure or man-made machinery.
It is a chance or special structure that can stabilize the membrane into a world bubble.
In the quantum ocean, there exists an "island of stability" "anchored" by the ether anchor point. The world there, like the world in which humans live, has its own set of fixed rules.
If this special "anchor point" system collapses, the world bubble will easily roll inward into space-time fragments and eventually decay and disappear. At the bottom of the quantum sea, there are many such world wreckages.
Teyvat is a world bubble on the tree of imaginary numbers. It is very likely that it has fallen into the quantum sea and experienced reincarnation...
Su Qiankun carefully recalled the settings between these three and had an indescribable feeling. So let's stop here for now.
Noticing that the Great Tree King next to her had woken up, she stood up and gently carried Nashida, who was sleeping in Su Qiankun's arms, to the side, letting her hold her father's arm.
Su Qiankun put down his phone and hugged the Great Compassion Tree King in his arms. The couple spent an infatuated time together as usual, and before they knew it, they fell asleep while kissing each other.
In a daze, they both said at the same time: "Good night, wife/husband..."