Chronology - 1.75

The conjecture:

Within the primordial realms of Potential/Possibility perhaps just a single pulse of energy

which germinated from the potential future by (hypothesized/theorized) ‘backward causation’ (aka "retrocausality")***

tracked-back and unhinged the equilibrium of neo-nothingness....at Eternal Origins

*** i.e. a Quantum Mechanics sub-theory that future possibilities (or energy) may somehow impact present possibilities (or energy)

see also quantum fluctuation.... vacuum state fluctuation origin of the universe discussion/theories.

Remember, I just need just one pulse

Birnbaum takes a moment here to explain more in-depth what we mentioned previously regarding the simultaneous push and pull of Potential. As void abhors void and there is such a buildup of Potential within the Cosmic Womb, Birnbaum theorizes that that it would take only a single pulse of energy from the Cosmic 157

Womb into the material universe to spark creation. This single pulse, Birnbaum conjectures, was spawned from the very future that Potential could create.

This begs the question, of course – how does something cause itself? This is where we must make a necessary detour to understand the theory of backward causation, or retrocausality.

ret·ro·cau·sal·i·ty /'retrōkôˈzalədē/

noun

Any of several hypothetical phenomena or processes that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause.

The theory here is that time isn’t relevant to Potential like it is for us day to day. Since Q4P’s power and that of the SuperFormula is derived from the fact that it is both the current Potential of something as well as its future Potential, this means we aren’t limited in thinking of cause and effect the same way. In fact, retrocausality means a cause that is yet to happen can be responsible for an effect we are seeing now.

In effect, what may seem a single pulse of energy can possess the strength it will have later on. This breaks, as Birnbaum explains, the equilibrium and status quo of the neo-nothingness that existed at the beginning of Eternal Origins. Even when it 158