[#]WritersCoffeeClub 25Jan—Do you have a worked-out magical system? Or do you make it up as you go?
Admittedly it's been a long, long time since I sat down and wrote. (Sighing a lot just now.)
But. Yes. I call it the Psychocosmology of the Nested Worlds of Parabol, or just the Nested Worlds of Parabol for short.
It is based on part on layman's quantum physics, in part on Plotinus' cosmology, and in part David Lewis' Many Worlds theses. And more, but these are the primary building blocks.
Ah, and a desire to allow for travel between the worlds of my own and a friend's worlds.
So.
There was Zero. From the Zero came the One, a singularity of infinite potential. From the One emanates all possibilities.
The possibilities turn back, pulled by the singularity of potency; by this interaction emanates forth all probability, quantum waves carrying with them possibilities and potential. Where they overlap they sometimes reinforce, sometimes augment, and sometimes cancel one another out. At each intersection a world is created.
As such, the worlds closest to the One are those who interact most often with the, I suppose, "creative radiation" coming from the One. It happens as often as being bombarded by atoms in our world. Reality is malleable.
In the worlds furthest from the One, the content of the worlds are increasingly randomized by the quantum fluctuations--but interacting with the raw power of the infinite One is far rarer, almost never occurring. Here, reality is much more firmly set down.
Fantasy worlds, particularly high magic ones, fall closer to the center; here we have reality contorting spells and rituals, gods, goddesses, genies, and unpredictable and unexplainable changes that can be as dangerous as intergalactic supernovae.
Our world is a bit further away from the center, where questions about the rigidity of the kitchen table only enter into philosophical arguments about extremely un/likely probabilities. One might argue that "a table doesn't exist, it's just particles arranged table wise." That's as weird as it seems to get. Prediction is easy, with the right models and maths.
Perhaps even further out are worlds bearing no recognizable similarity to our own, but in which every probability is more or less a fate-sentence. I suspect these are the deep-future scifi worlds, worlds in which science can be done as easily as looking at ones own hands, because nothing is ever irregular, at least not often enough to contemplate.
Travellers between may enjoy quantum tunneling, Einstein-Rosen bridges, wormholes, dark portals, whatever--but imagine one powerful being from an inner realm finding its way to ours? They can perform miracles. They can alter the paths of civilizations. They can change our world.
Anyway, it's "open source" per se, so if you want it, please, nestle your world right on in.
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