Collapse into nothingness is worse than collapse into emptiness
2250AD:
Emptiness or Nothingness
The Klein Bottle Reemerges
Collapse into nothingness is worse than collapse into emptiness
Collapse
Part I of VII
If we thought we were going to get out of the bottle before it collapsed, we were sadly mistaken. 2250 proves to be a very sobering year. We soon discover that our prison, the Klein bottle, is not eternal. We are about to discover there is a big difference between emptiness and nothingness. We are about to realize that our universe collapsing into nothingness may appear to be a threatening concept, but it may be far less traumatic than collapsing into emptiness.
Science and technology continue to inspire and amaze us. In fifty short years, we have developed technology capable of adjusting for the Klein bottle effect that had previously distorted our ability to find the boundary of the universe. The boundary is now fully mapped and we are beginning to dream of voyages to the far reaches of the galaxy. There appears to be no end to the borders of our influence, other than the far distant boundary of the universe itself.
The boundary of the universe is smooth as glass yet made of no apparent physical substance. It appears to be impenetrable by anything of which we are aware. The boundary is an apparent force field of some type that we cannot begin to comprehend, for it appears to defy all laws of physics. It turns away all energy or matter emissions we generate and project in its direction. The energy emissions we direct at it become redirected into the bottle in a perfectly predictable manner defined by the mathematics describing behavior of matter and energy contained within a Klein bottle topology.
To be continued: Part II of VII: The Klein bottle appares to be an impenetrable...