I just reread my TOE: Part IV. It is seriously lacking in clarity.
I guess my explanation of the Universal creation front occuring as a wave was a mite superficial. Sometimes I forget that I am writing for those who haven't developed the idea and therefore don't have a clear picture of it, and I make assumptions about their understanding of what I am trying to say.
Think of a sine wave and its graphic representation of amplitude versus time, which variables
a and
T are signified by a crucifix lying on its side: amplitude is + and -, up and down, around the zero reference line with time progressing forward, as we read to the right.
A single cycle of a sine wave describes a concentric semicircle beginning at the zero reference line increasing in amplitude and then decreasing in amplitude, crosses the zero reference line again and continues its descent until it turns back up toward the zero reference line. That describes 360º of arc, a single cycle. Think of a mirrored S lying on its side and wrapping around that crucifix. The time it takes to describe that S is called the frequency, measured in cycles per second. It isn't hard to imagine a second sine wave overiding the first but exactly 180º out of phase with it, like two S's overlapping but where one S begins its cycle of increasing amplitude at the zero reference line just as the other S is halfway through its cycle and crossing the reference line in the other direction. It is not hard to see that the two waves would mathematically cancel each other out, and that is what happens in electronic audio noise cancellation circuits where only the noise is cancelled out because band-pass filters allow the stuff we want to hear get through, but not the noise, which are unwanted frequencies.
Now you know what a wave is. Quantum reality is full of them. Nature expresses itself in similar patterns throughout, from the atomic through the macro and to the colossal. Max Planck described the pulses of energy emitting from a black body as quanta of energy. Today black bodies are used to generate very precise frequencies for low tolerance applications. They are called cavity resonators, a very precisely engineered hollow sphere with a pin hole. Its radiating frequency is determined by the diameter of the sphere, measured internally.
In describing the creation wavefront as the leading edge of a cyclic event I am interpreting the manifestation of that wave in our reality as it leaves behind the residual effect of that staggeringly awesome event, ie. creation, which it drags behind it because of the effect of persistence provided by the phenomenon of hysteresis, also a quantifiable electromagnetic effect.
Keeping in mind the perspective from which our place in it forces us to appreciate it, what with Heisenberg and Einstein looking over our shoulders, we are now ready to re-examine the idea...
So one can say that there are more than one Universes if one wishes, but as far as I am concerned it is created by the same wave that created all of them and each represents a single cycle of that wave.
So, notwithstanding that the word Universe is defined as that which encompasses all in any event, I maintain that there is one and only one Universe.
Alternate universes, other dimensions, bubble universes, white holes - all are theoretical sidebars to reality, this here thing.