The Multiversity Guidebook, Convergence, And The Return Of Hypertime

[Bill Lange]

One of the things overlooked in The Multiversity Guidebook is Grant Morrison's re-introduction of Hypertime back into the DC Multiverse.

Is this the connection between Multiversity and Convergence?

[colonyofcells]

I don't believe hypertime ever went away. Writers could always visit any alternate earth or timeline they wanted for any story. Writers can have good memories and as long as writers remember some elseworlds, they can always use whatever is needed for a current story. Some writers like to use stuff from the 1940s, some writers like to use imaginary stories from the 1950s, etc. For example, I remember the stories about the descendant of superman vs Muto and I could even combine that into a Legion story.
http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.c...erman-137.html

[NeonZ]

He used the name Hypertime, but just as a term for where the multiverse exists, without the previously mentioned possibility of reaching an infinite number of worlds and timelines through it. So, although it's a neat reference, it's not exactly the same yet.

[MajorHoy]

Why did I think this thread was titled The Multiversity Cookbook for a moment?

[Nat]

I would read The Multiversity Cookbook.

[Montressor]

As far as I'm concerned Hypertime never left. It was such a brilliant, yet common sense concept, and it allowed for everything to be in continuity.

It was one of the few times in recent memory my mind was blown in a comic book.

[Dataweaver]

He used the name Hypertime, but just as a term for where the multiverse exists, without the previously mentioned possibility of reaching an infinite number of worlds and timelines through it. So, although it's a neat reference, it's not exactly the same yet.

Considering that Grant Morrison (co-)created Hypertime in the first place, I see no reason to doubt that it isn’t exactly what it says on the tin. And it’s not speculation to say that Hypertime never went away — or at least that if it was gone at all, it was reintroduced well before this reference to it: in 52, Skeets referred to Waverider as “the seer of Hypertime”; and in Booster Gold, a future Booster talked about pruning Hypertime.

So yeah; Hypertime never really went away. DC simply backed off from publishing it. And yes, I definitely see a connection between Hypertime and Convergence.

What Guidebook to the Multiverse established, though, was that the Orrery of Worlds isn’t contained in a single hypertimeline: presumably, each Earth exists in a separate hypertimeline. That said, its reference to how ordered and structured the Multiverse is heavily implies that while the 52 Earths of the Orrery are separate branches in Hypertime, they aren’t independent branches — and that’s what distinguishes the 52 from the rest of Hypertime.

IOW, the Multiverse is a subset of Hypertime.

[colonyofcells]

Hypertime probably has lots of alternate multiverses and other alternate earths.

[rightsuperhero]

An article i came across yesterday reminded me of the Hypertime concept.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-universe.html

Is your future already decided? New theory of time suggests that the past, present AND future co-exist in the universe
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of philosophy has presented a new theory of time
Dr Bradford Skow says the idea that time flows like a river is not correct
Instead he claims space-time is a 'block universe' where the past, present and future all exist together
If we were to look down upon the universe, we would see time spread out
But he adds the present is not a 'spotlight' in time - but rather we are in a 'temporally scattered' condition

he favours a theory known as the ‘block universe’, which states that the past, present and future already exist.
Dr Skow said that he does not think events sail past us and vanish forever - instead, they exist in different parts of space-time.
‘The block universe theory says you’re spread out in time, something like the way you’re spread out in space,' Dr Skow said.
‘We’re not located at a single time.’
Instead he says we are in a 'temporarily scattered' condition.
He asserts that our passage through space-time is not like a spotlight - and the experiences you had yesterday, last week, or even years ago are all real.
But he says time travel between the different times is not possible, as we are now in a different part of space-time.