So here’s an experiment, that is here’s another experiment in blogging. I’ve tried to do a long running blog a few times in life spanning about twenty years and dating to when blogging was new and novel and I had to look it up to find out what it is. Here I think I’ll make a blog about the central aspect of my worldview really. Less so when I was younger though still significant but more so as I’ve gotten older.

Politics used to be important to me in terms of worldview but that’s faded. Increasingly I’m preoccupied with other ideas. Like seeing the dimensions of human existence. Humanity creates and wraps itself in trends and currents that reverberate through time and space however localized it may be. The fact that we are currently isolated on a single planet doesn’t really make it a trivial question. Science postulates the existence of additional dimensions but the focus is on Space-Time and the things of the universe at large instead of examining that which is to hand and so obvious as to be invisible except to those who study it.

Humanity seems inexplicable even if it’s predictably so. What if one of the secrets of the universe is that living being are dimensional in nature? You know inherently and to such an extent that we are partly blinded to it save for those who study the social sciences. Economics for instance has undeniable force and effect akin to nature. One might imagine the dimensions of the world’s economy as a sort of storm that sometimes rages and sometimes is quieter. What if it is actually a macro dimension unique to our local reality? Composed of myriad sub-dimensions that in turn make up a larger whole. What if the dimensions that physics talks about aren’t just alternative universes but are actually the details of existence. In terms similar to the relativity of time the significance of other dimensions varies depending upon your awareness and relationship to it.

There are something about human existence that if not universal without exception are at least commonplace tendencies. Subconscious even. Instinctual. Just think of the migrations of other species that seem inexplicable. They’re part of a living dimension. A salient and intelligent dimension. Some beyond us. Is it so hard to believe there could be a sort of quasi life form that is dimensional in nature and a byproduct of the existence of sentient beings? Intelligence of any level even the instinctual and less esoteric.

So it is I make a greater commitment to the idea of the theoretical aspects of science fiction in my later years after middle age. The importance of ideas to the future. Conceptual speaking. There’s nothing like a good idea basically be it in Science Fiction or in the staid concept of the rock music concept album. Sometimes you even get both as in 2112 by Rush looking at a time a scant 12 years before my Rust Universe started to explore not just the universe but across multiple dimensions and time.

Of course the idea of world building or universe creation doesn’t have to be finite. It might involve some parameters but with the Rust Omniverse I’ve intentionally left it pretty much wide open. Not just conceptually but in terms of who can add to it. The notion is to create something with an unusual amount of depth to facilitate future usage by people I’ll never know. Like Open Source software developed by many people over an extended period of time. Linux being a prime example it will no doubt last long after Linus Torvalds passes away. I think he’s a pretty good figure to cite an inspirational element behind this project.

I myself am not a programmer thought or least not really. My formal education has spanned several areas but the main one was History. I’m more interested in it in the sense of Asimov’s Foundation concepts. I add what I think might be a real world element but which also might be extendable. One example of this is the living dimension or dimensional being. In Deep Space Nine they referred to something like that as “wormhole aliens”. What if instead of a separate consciousness inside another dimension the dimension itself was the self of a sentient being. Completely non-corporeal other than occasional for the benefit of communicating with beings such as ourselves. In a system populated by the most advanced species traveling through multiple universes and dimensions imagine a being that exists in all of them or at least a good many. Contrasted by lesser deities that only exist within the realm or envelop of a singular dimension. Rather like a sort of species that are not bound by the same physics as we are. They are not only intelligent but they incorporate their own “place” although to use in order to understand it we need to think of it in abstract terms. Hence the prominence of the abstract and surreal in many of the Science Fiction Theory generative NFTs.

I expect an evolution to occur over a period of decades or perhaps even longer if the idea behind this model proves out. It’s not designed to be static. Like history it will have periods but like the future it will bring an element that is as of yet unknown. If the canon develops far enough it might become possible for some people to become expert in it and become something like a priest of history. For this though it would need to create it’s own legacy and have a certain inherent momentum. The greater that momentum the further into the future it will reach. Nothing lasts forever but in the sense of time that is trapped in a state of singularity and universes stacked upon one another infinitely perhaps it will make some small mark on a much much larger reality that we barely grasp as I write this.

Currently humankind is only beginning to move to the stars. In terms of the historical periods one way to quantify is the end of the European colonial period and it’s inherent nation state national kingdom way of organizing one world’s resources. Here I suggest you shift gears and think not in terms of current events or future or past happenings in an immediate way. Step back to view it from the perspective of an age inside an epoch. The last age was colonialism. The current age I believe is The Space Age of which we are only just beginning. An age requires at least five centuries to play out during which time humanity went from the 1400 to the 1900s in the nation state system that was really modeled on the old feudal system but with added elements like the idea of The Enlightenment and The Renaissance.

Sometimes you can break it up by technology. Just because Enlightenment age humanity could not fly and we can now doesn’t mean we don’t share an age in terms of cultural roots and the like. So in sense we have been talking a predominance of the European model and ideas. Who is to say this will continue in space? On other worlds or moons. Even habitats. No I do think you mark the beginning of the Early Space Age by certain technological events. The first objects sent to space. The first human/animal in space. The first on the moon. Those where all in the 1950s-1970s range followed by a more careful and considered study of the space just outside the atmosphere as well as by unmanned vehicles like the Voyagers. In terms of moving from the early experimental period to a full blown space age though humanity needs to colonize another world permanently. By world though what I’ve referring to is permanent residence other than earth. In the Rust 2124 universe takes the form not of planets per se though they play a role but in ships and habitats and hybrids of the two becoming the primary living space for a more advanced cybernetic version of humanity. One that was on the cusp of extinction but who in managing to survive inspiring a machine species to merge with humanity in that Universe. The end result was a hybrid that not only survived but which created the first known instance of a Multidimensional Superpower. One that even some sentient dimensions envied.

So in conclusion it entry #1 in this series it’s my hope that the SciFiTheory Journal will serve to map out the evolution of this idea into something more than I have imagined up to this point. Something that takes what has come before from the likes of Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, and many others and using our newest technologies in this 21st century turn into something that at once pays homage to the past but also develops that legacy into a new paradigm in the future.