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The boundaries between universes are supposed to be absolute. Every reality exists as its own sealed bubble with its own beginning and end - a fundamental law known as the First Principle of the Multiverse. But what happens when those cosmic walls begin to fracture?

We journey to Coricum, a universe orbiting dangerously close to the edge of its cosmic container, where highly evolved beings called the Edgewalkers have dedicated themselves to studying the membrane of their reality. Not rebels seeking escape, but scientists driven by pure curiosity, these "mathematic mystics" and "time surfers" discover something extraordinary - an impossible formula that wasn't created but was somehow waiting to be found.

This living equation, described as recursive and self-evident, resists complete understanding. When the Edgewalkers begin working with it, subtle fractures appear in their universe's fabric. After a young researcher glimpses something beyond their universe and whispers, "We weren't the first," events spiral toward catastrophe. A signal escapes Coricum - violating what should be impossible - and awakens ancient guardians called the Atabooms, who exist solely to maintain universal containment.

As reality begins unraveling at the thought level and a "traitor particle" from outside begins multiplying within Coricum, we're confronted with profound questions: If these supposedly unbreakable laws can be challenged by an impossible idea, what does "contained" truly mean? And perhaps most unsettling - what happens when the void beyond all universes starts whispering back?

Join us for this mind-bending exploration of cosmic boundaries, reality breaches, and the terrifying implications of pushing beyond what was meant to be absolute. Subscribe to The Deep Dive for more journeys into fascinating concepts that challenge our understanding of existence itself.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome back to the Deep Dive. Today we're going deep into some really big ideas about cosmic laws, ultimate boundaries.

Speaker 2:

Right, and what happens when those boundaries get pushed?

Speaker 1:

Exactly. We're exploring this through a fascinating concept from one of your source submissions the first principle of the multiverse, which basically says no soul, no atom, no dream shall ever cross the edge. You picture these sort of bubble universes right, each one completely sealed, containing its own beginning and end.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, totally self-contained, timeless harmony, as the source put it.

Speaker 1:

But it makes you wonder what does contained truly mean? And you know what if that breaks down?

Speaker 2:

Well, that's where it gets interesting, because while this law seems absolute, fundamental, there's this one universe, coricum, and it orbits unusually close to the wall, the edge of its own bubble, closer than others. Apparently so. And the beings there, the Coricans, specifically a group called the Edgewalkers. They're hyper-evolved.

Speaker 1:

Edgewalkers, I like that name. Are they trying to get out?

Speaker 2:

Not exactly. That's the key thing. They're not like trying to smash the walls down, they're more like cosmic scientists. Right, they want to study its skin, is the phrase used. They're probing the thresholds, the spatial, liminal limits near their universe's outer membrane. Think of it like extreme boundary science.

Speaker 1:

Studying the container itself without actually trying to leave it. That's really something Pure curiosity.

Speaker 2:

Precisely. And this curiosity? Well, it led somewhere. Massive, the impossible formula. Exactly these edgewalkers. They're described as mathematic mystics, time surfers, equation sculptors. Quite poetic.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

But this formula? It wasn't something they derived or invented. The sources say it wasn't written, it was waiting. Waiting how? It appeared to them like a code dream suggesting it's somehow fundamental, preexisting, not created, but discovered or maybe revealed.

Speaker 1:

A mind-bending idea the formula so what is this thing?

Speaker 2:

It's not just a set of equations. It's described as alive, yeah, recursive, paradoxical, even self-evident, like it resists being fully understood or contained. Less like a key, more like an intelligent entity made of logic.

Speaker 1:

Wow, okay. So what happened when they started working with it?

Speaker 2:

Problems Almost immediately. The very first unstable test. Yeah, it didn't just fizzle, it caused rifts. Subtle at first, but real.

Speaker 1:

Fracturing their own universe.

Speaker 2:

Yes, subtly mutating its physics. There's this chilling detail A young edgewalker, yule, caught a glimpse of something else beyond their edge.

Speaker 1:

Beyond.

Speaker 2:

Yeah and just whispered. We weren't the first Before collapsing.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that's unnerving, the idea that this isn't new ground, but maybe a repeated mistake.

Speaker 2:

Exactly, it raises the stakes considerably and it gets worse as they got closer to finishing the formula, decoding it. A pulse, a signal. It escaped. Coricum.

Speaker 1:

Escaped but the first principle.

Speaker 2:

Exactly. It shouldn't have been possible, but this signal went beyond Coricum, heard outside, beyond all universes.

Speaker 1:

How is that even possible? Who or what heard it?

Speaker 2:

Right, this is where these other entities come in the Atabooms.

Speaker 1:

Atabooms Strange name.

Speaker 2:

They exist in what's called the Tritoniverse sphere. Yeah Well, it's outside. Everything else. They aren't matter. Not really. Life as we define it, more like containment given form. Living containment, sort of their entire existence is the principle of containment. They are the keepers, ensuring nothing gets out of its designated universe.

Speaker 1:

So they're like the ultimate guardians of the first principle.

Speaker 2:

You could say that. And when they detected this impossible signal from Coricum, they had a disturbing realization.

Speaker 1:

Which was.

Speaker 2:

Coricum is not the first. It is the echo of a failure we buried.

Speaker 1:

Buried, so this has happened before, apparently.

Speaker 2:

A previous breach long ago that they thought they dealt with. So they reactivated ancient protocols, things like the containment choir and this harmonic reversal protocol.

Speaker 1:

That sounds serious, like cosmic emergency measures.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely Designed to counteract breaches, to basically sing a counterfrequency against the escaping signal.

Speaker 1:

And back in Coricum, things must have been going haywire.

Speaker 2:

Completely. The formula effectively jumps containment. It starts integrating itself into reality, how it overtakes an edgewalker Eltan. His skin literally becomes shifting equations. His voice starts reversing causality when he's spoken, reversing causality.

Speaker 1:

That's a reality break.

Speaker 2:

And the sky above Coricum transforms, showing the formula's glyph. Then something else appears A traitor particle.

Speaker 1:

From where?

Speaker 2:

From outside. It appears inside Coricum and begins multiplying like a kind of conceptual virus from beyond the wall.

Speaker 1:

So the breach isn't just letting things out, it's letting things in.

Speaker 2:

Seems so, and the source material asks this terrifying question how do you contain something that's becoming the door itself? The universe starts to unravel at the thought level.

Speaker 1:

Not just physics, but meaning Consciousness itself. Breaking down.

Speaker 2:

That's the implication A fundamental loss of coherence. It's like the operating system of reality is crashing because of this impossible thought.

Speaker 1:

So we've got a universe literally coming apart at the seams, pushing boundaries it perhaps shouldn't have, and these ancient guardians stirring, because this isn't the first time, it's an echo.

Speaker 2:

Right, an echo of a failure. They thought long gone.

Speaker 1:

It really leaves you thinking. If these fundamental laws aren't quite absolute, if an impossible idea can challenge the very concept of containment, what does contained even mean? And what happens when the outside, that place nothing is supposed to reach, starts whispering back? Definitely something to chew on. Indeed, We'll have to leave it there for this deep dive. Join us next time.