071225 – Author Thoughts on Dimensions Used in “Mirror Mirror”
In writing this book, I spent considerable time researching dimensions and started by asking how many there were. It gets murky after counting eleven, with celestial pundits arguing there are more. I did not care to learn more. My mission took me through familiar ground, my three-dimensional 3-D world…you know, height, width, depth. Add movement…like up, down, left, right, forward, backward, and you get a 4th dimension – time. From the fifth dimension onward, things get much more complex than I needed.
I didn’t find things relevant to the story in my head, like parallel universe layers in the space-time continuum, until I reached the eleventh dimension, which was less complex in its complexity and has an omniscient presence over 3-D to 10-D. For my story, it meant that an entity in the eleventh dimension, 11-D, could pretty much do and go, and shape-shift, and travel through other dimensions on timelines of their choosing and across parallel universes. Time was no object. And this is fiction.
Speaking of time, I’ve never been a fan of time travel as the sole basis for a story, but if travel across time is less tactical and more strategically expedient, I’m in. Sandy travels against her will across several timelines, with each representing a parallel universe. How crazy can it get when she shifts timelines (time travel) and lands in a different parallel universe from her current one? Sandy finds out the hard way. She was still Sandy, but her other self lived a totally different life, operating a bookstore about to be bought out. Sandy’s entity warned her of dangers, especially not to put herself in a situation where she could meet her other self. No spoiler here, but you know if not face-to-face, it will be damn close.
Shifting timelines was fun to weave into the story. When I started researching, I only knew the 5th Dimension was a pop group from the late 60s and 70s. I obviously expanded my knowledge of dimensions beyond what mattered, but it made for a great storyline.
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