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<blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 5229586" data-attributes="member: 29746">Oh, I know all that. I've read up on modern science extensively. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The most recent issue of Science News, in fact, has an article reviewing current ideas about &quot;Time's Arrow&quot; and the lack of evidence for it in the theories, and what it all means- mentioning the idea that our universe is a &quot;bubble&quot; split off from some equilibrium-state 'verse that sometimes splits off bubble-verses like ours going the opposite direction and thus maintaining a balance (as well as explaining why the apparent laws of physics themselves don't discriminate on time's directionality).&nbsp;My point was just that the perspective of the IH doesn't really take the modern definitions of &quot;entropy&quot; or &quot;time&quot; into account; the First Ones are their own concepts and every DM would have to define them for him/herself. Your points about how the monsters we've seen from each &quot;realm&quot; (as it were) are just the result of how UK chose to define the beings who use the terms as names. Opposition is something he put in, not necessarily something that must be there or that reflects something about the chosen terms themselves.&nbsp;Read my &quot;crazy cosmology&quot; thread, if you haven't already, and you'll find plenty of higher-dimensional perspectives on a game setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="paradox42, post: 5229586, member: 29746"] Oh, I know all that. I've read up on modern science extensively. :) The most recent issue of [I]Science News[/I], in fact, has an article reviewing current ideas about "Time's Arrow" and the lack of evidence for it in the theories, and what it all means- mentioning the idea that our universe is a "bubble" split off from some equilibrium-state 'verse that sometimes splits off bubble-verses like ours going the opposite direction and thus maintaining a balance (as well as explaining why the apparent laws of physics themselves don't discriminate on time's directionality). My point was just that the perspective of the IH doesn't really take the modern definitions of "entropy" or "time" into account; the First Ones are their own concepts and every DM would have to define them for him/herself. Your points about how the monsters we've seen from each "realm" (as it were) are just the result of how UK chose to define the beings who use the terms as names. Opposition is something he put in, not necessarily something that [B]must[/B] be there or that reflects something about the chosen terms themselves. Read my "crazy cosmology" thread, if you haven't already, and you'll find plenty of higher-dimensional perspectives on a game setting. [/QUOTE]

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