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Cosmopause/Attenuation Limit

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The motherverse is immediately at work, with its vast gravitation, pulling the new universe apart. This process will take a finite time, measurable in billions of years. It should be possible to calibrate all events in these eternal cycles into predictable quanta, part of time scales mentioned in the note at end of the previous section.

At the outer edge all around an expanding universe is what we may call the cosmopause (edge of white sphere, fine aqua line, false color). The cosmopause is a limit inside the motherverse, beyond which our universe has not yet grown. As our universe expands (constantly accelerating), it follows the expected sequence of events just outlined. Gradually, it attenuates to a point where the empty space of the motherverse, with its drifting godots, cannot be meaningfully distinguished from what is left of our universe.

One of the many black box (unsolved) questions in all of this is whether a given universe can potentially push aside material from other universes, or if they can overlap as the primordial Big Bang energy (C-3) of a universe gradually diminishes to the point that, as its attenuation limit (cosmopause) spreads beyond centripetal limits, material from adjoining universes with higher centrifugal forces (to use simple physics terminology) begins to mingle with the material of the dying universe in question.

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