Well, that, and the propensity of corporate media conglomerates to use the idea as a way to squeeze an tedious infinity of narratives out of a single intellectual property. As manifested by our crass capitalist culture, multiverse storytelling just kinda feels like a flowery tessellation in the ever deepening rot of American moral decay. I'm lookin' at you, Deadpool. But then, that's pretty much everything around us these days, and hardly fair to a perfectly lovely way of understanding both the nature of being and the Divine self-expression.
Anyhoo, when I woke yesterday, I came out of dreaming thinking about immovable objects and irresistible forces.
There's a child's challenge to the existence of God, one that I remember from boyhood. "If God is all powerful, can God create a rock so heavy that God can't lift it?" Oooh, gotcha, says the newly minted middle-school atheist. Because, you know, then God isn't powerful enough to lift it, or, like, there are, like, limits, you know, which means, like, he also isn't powerful, right? Checkmate, dude!
This is just a variant on the "what happens if an irresistible force meets an immovable object" thought exercise, of course, and you can smack it aside as an abstraction, one that is inherently unanswerable.
But that's no fun.
Because, sure, "irresistible force/immovable object" is a self-annihilating proposition. The two concepts are, in relationship, unable to co-exist if set against one another. Like, say, matter and antimatter. In our spacetime, such a thing cannot be. But in a multiverse, well, things are different.
Such a physics could be put into place within a pocket universe, but it would be inherently unstable, and destroy itself. In a theistic Multiverse where God's creative self-expression is limitless, this could have been done in infinite variety, forever. So, boom.
One could argue, easily, from intent. In immovable object would only be created with immovability as its intent and purpose. If God makes something that God cannot move, then the Divine intent would be immovability. Moving an object made to be immovable would imply a dissonance in purpose and action, or imply an absence of knowledge about future intent. Like, say, if the Creator made a universe where the physics was only space or forms of matter, but did not include time. Such a universe would be unmovable, because without time, there could be no change, ergo, no "motion" would be possible. It would be set like a diamond into being, beyond God's desire to change through the workings of force.
But why would God do such a thing? I mean, why would a being of infinite power intentionally create something that it could not change through the application of said power?
You know, like the human will.
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