For about twenty years, I’ve experimented with blogging, diving into various subjects and trying to find one that captures my long-term curiosity. When I first heard about blogs, the concept was so new I had to look up what they were. But here I am again, kicking off a blog that’s different from past attempts. This time, I’m writing about the core of my worldview: how I see humanity’s existence and its potential dimensions — real, imagined, and speculative.
When I was younger, politics and current events formed the basis of my worldview. Over time, though, my focus has shifted. Now, I find myself more drawn to understanding humanity as a layered, dimensional presence in the universe. We wrap ourselves in trends, ideologies, and systems that reverberate across time and space. While we’re currently bound to Earth, that doesn’t make the question of our existence any less significant.
Science hints at additional dimensions, but the focus remains on space-time and observable physics. What if living beings are, in fact, dimensional in nature? Our society, economics, instincts — these could be part of a larger, quasi-dimension that we rarely perceive, save for those who study it deeply. Consider economics: it behaves almost like a natural force, storm-like, with cycles of growth and decay. Could our systems — economic, social, and psychological — be micro-dimensions that weave together to form a unique, invisible macro-dimension?
Certain commonalities, like migration or societal norms, are deeply ingrained and almost subconscious, like animal instincts to migrate or mate. Imagine, then, a quasi-life form that’s dimensional in nature, born from the collective existence of sentient beings. Even a simple intelligence, tied to instinct, could form a “living” dimension — or something close to it.
In recent years, I’ve found science fiction a powerful framework for exploring these speculative ideas. Stories and theories once seemed like imaginative escapes, but now they feel like essential tools for imagining humanity’s future. Concepts like world-building in science fiction provide a limitless playground for exploring these ideas. Take the fictional “Rust Omniverse” I’ve created: it’s open-source and meant to be a shared project, a universe with no defined limits where others can contribute and expand its lore. My goal is to build it like Linux, a project that outlasts its originator and evolves over time with every new contributor.
I’m no programmer, though my background in history gives me a different angle on these ideas. Like Asimov’s Foundation series, which imagined a future historian navigating the patterns of civilization, I see potential in treating history and science fiction as intertwined studies. For instance, consider a “living dimension” that isn’t a separate consciousness within a new dimension but is itself a sentient, non-corporeal being. Maybe in a system of multiple universes and dimensions, this being exists across many — contrasted by others that are bound to only one. These dimensional “beings” would operate with rules and physics beyond our own, adding layers to the universe that traditional science can only hint at.
Such a shared, evolving sci-fi universe could create something of a “canon” over time, allowing others to engage with it as experts, historians, or interpreters of this evolving world. It might be a self-perpetuating legacy that, over decades, gains enough momentum to influence future creators, long after I’m gone. While nothing lasts forever, perhaps this Omniverse will be a small mark in a larger reality that we are only beginning to understand.
Today, as humankind starts its tentative steps into the stars, we’re entering what I see as the Early Space Age — an era that will span centuries, much like the era of European exploration and colonization that shaped global history for five hundred years. While this new space era will carry many influences from Earth, the cultural forces that dominated the last five centuries may evolve beyond recognition. On other planets, moons, or even habitats, humanity might experiment with social structures unimaginable on Earth, pushing us into a realm we only glimpse in fiction.
For the “Rust 2124 Universe,” I imagine humanity’s future not as planet-bound colonies but as a society rooted in space habitats, advanced ships, and even hybrid cybernetic-human species. Here, humanity becomes the inspiration for a machine species that eventually merges with us to form a unique, multidimensional civilization, envied even by sentient dimensions.
So, as I start this SciFiTheory Journal, my hope is that it will map the evolution of these ideas into something lasting, influenced by legends like Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein, and enriched by the creativity of future contributors. This journey may pay homage to the past, but it’s all about crafting a new paradigm for the future. Let’s see where this experiment in world-building and dimension-exploring takes us.