There were truths about the universe that Wesley Crusher intuitively understood: that space, time, matter, energy, and thought all were manifestations of the same thing; that what most beings considered to be reality was merely the accumulated permutations and attenuations of twelve-dimensional forces, vibrations of invisible strings knotted in four dimensions as m-brane sheets; that there was no “true” timeline and no “true” universe; that so-called “dark matter” was a sentient force unto itself, and not at all one with a sense of humor; and that spacetime expanded forever into both the
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