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, 21:05, 18 April 2008New page: Image:lighterstill.jpg <center>Image:Helianx14.jpg</center> ---- <center>'''Commentary'''</center> Just as most thoughtful species attempt to examine their origins, the mo...
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<center>'''Commentary'''</center>
Just as most thoughtful species attempt to examine their [[origin]]s, the more advanced
amongst them in those early days also enthusiastically explored what their [[future]]s might hold.
Some contemporary [[cosmology|cosmologists]] have theorized that the [[space/time continuum]]
was more fluid, more malleable perhaps, more intimately entwined
with the [[consciousness]] of the beings who inhabited the [[superuniverse]]s in those times.
These conditions appeared to have made it possible for the few adepts amongst the different races, who had achieved this state of union with the All, to gain brief glimpses into the future.
However, it was also the very plasticity of the [[temporal]] and physical substance of the [[cosmos]] that tended to make their prognostications unreliable.
Not only did [[freedom]] of [[choice]] invariably enter the picture to make any [[prediction]] inherently fallible,
but in many situations the [[collective consciousness]] of the concerned species
made the necessary corrections to avoid the anticipated disaster,
without any help from [[seers]] or [[prophet]]s.
Any vision of the future, the [[philosophy|philosophers]] of most races came to believe, was based
on the [[probability]] of an event occurring as an extrapolation of innumerable current
factors and conditions--and those can always change with surprising speed.
There were always a few recorded situations in which these predictive visions had acted as a valuable warning and had allowed the race concerned
to take the appropriate actions to avoid a coming [[catastrophe]].
Whether or not these cases were purely the result of good fortune,
evidently they had occurred with sufficient frequency to pique the interest of the [[Helianx]].
In spite of their proficiency in the [[psychic]] arts they had received absolutely no warnings of the global calamity that changed their lives forever.
In the [[light]] of this unfortunate [[lacuna]] in what the Helianx
had come to consider with some pride as their particular area of expertise, it had seemed supremely ironic to them that it was only after the addition
of the [[cosmology]] of just one of these races that their computers had finally reached
a conclusion in their [[galaxy]]-wide analysis of probable futures.
In [[actuality]], the determination at which the computers had arrived
did not directly address the central issue that had so obsessed the Helianx:
That of the deeper cause behind the [[catastrophe]]
that had destroyed their precious world?
What they did learn turned out to be far more startling than any answer they might have received on this question and directly concerned the many intelligent species in the superuniverse.
The rhythmiC expansion and contraction of the space/time continuum, or so the computers appeared to be counseling,
would subject all matter to increasingly powerful gravitational forces as the Multiverse unfolded.
Not [[information]] of great interest to most short-lived species,
but to a [[race]] that had become virtually immortal and whose bodies, though large, were structurally appallingly delicate, it was a terrifying prospect.
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<center>[[Image:Helianx14.jpg]]</center>
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<center>'''Commentary'''</center>
Just as most thoughtful species attempt to examine their [[origin]]s, the more advanced
amongst them in those early days also enthusiastically explored what their [[future]]s might hold.
Some contemporary [[cosmology|cosmologists]] have theorized that the [[space/time continuum]]
was more fluid, more malleable perhaps, more intimately entwined
with the [[consciousness]] of the beings who inhabited the [[superuniverse]]s in those times.
These conditions appeared to have made it possible for the few adepts amongst the different races, who had achieved this state of union with the All, to gain brief glimpses into the future.
However, it was also the very plasticity of the [[temporal]] and physical substance of the [[cosmos]] that tended to make their prognostications unreliable.
Not only did [[freedom]] of [[choice]] invariably enter the picture to make any [[prediction]] inherently fallible,
but in many situations the [[collective consciousness]] of the concerned species
made the necessary corrections to avoid the anticipated disaster,
without any help from [[seers]] or [[prophet]]s.
Any vision of the future, the [[philosophy|philosophers]] of most races came to believe, was based
on the [[probability]] of an event occurring as an extrapolation of innumerable current
factors and conditions--and those can always change with surprising speed.
There were always a few recorded situations in which these predictive visions had acted as a valuable warning and had allowed the race concerned
to take the appropriate actions to avoid a coming [[catastrophe]].
Whether or not these cases were purely the result of good fortune,
evidently they had occurred with sufficient frequency to pique the interest of the [[Helianx]].
In spite of their proficiency in the [[psychic]] arts they had received absolutely no warnings of the global calamity that changed their lives forever.
In the [[light]] of this unfortunate [[lacuna]] in what the Helianx
had come to consider with some pride as their particular area of expertise, it had seemed supremely ironic to them that it was only after the addition
of the [[cosmology]] of just one of these races that their computers had finally reached
a conclusion in their [[galaxy]]-wide analysis of probable futures.
In [[actuality]], the determination at which the computers had arrived
did not directly address the central issue that had so obsessed the Helianx:
That of the deeper cause behind the [[catastrophe]]
that had destroyed their precious world?
What they did learn turned out to be far more startling than any answer they might have received on this question and directly concerned the many intelligent species in the superuniverse.
The rhythmiC expansion and contraction of the space/time continuum, or so the computers appeared to be counseling,
would subject all matter to increasingly powerful gravitational forces as the Multiverse unfolded.
Not [[information]] of great interest to most short-lived species,
but to a [[race]] that had become virtually immortal and whose bodies, though large, were structurally appallingly delicate, it was a terrifying prospect.
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Helianx_Proposition/page_13 Previous Page]
[[Category: The Helianx Proposition]]