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Manifold: Time

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Manifold: Time	label	Manifold: Time
Manifold: Time	page	ManifoldTime
Manifold: Time	comment	Humanity spread throughout the universe, but never found other intelligent life. Far into the future, matter having long since decayed away, the last descendants of humanity have survived by embedding themselves into a lossless computing substrate. They can theoretically survive indefinitely, but since there will never be new input, their thoughts are doomed to eventually begin repeating. A faction decides this was not meant to be and reaches back to the distant past...The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. Strange, hyper-intelligent children are being born all over the globe. As the world's governments turn inward, Reid Malenfant campaigns for the exploration and colonization of space. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space.The first book of Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy, where it is followed by Manifold: Space and Manifold: Origin.
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Manifold: Time / int_14607695	type	Super-Intelligence
Manifold: Time / int_14607695	comment	Super Intelligence: The Blue children, as well as the later generations of squid, and of course the Downstreamers themselves.
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Manifold: Time / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
Manifold: Time / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: Before he dies from June Tybee's bullets, Cornelius Taine manages to sabotage her spacesuit, killing her in the process.
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Manifold: Time / int_2164d2a1	type	Energy Beings
Manifold: Time / int_2164d2a1	comment	Energy Beings: Relatively early in the Downstreamers' history, they shed their physical bodies and live as energy beings.
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Manifold: Time / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Manifold: Time / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The intelligent squid cannibalise their own dead, and eat the less intelligent in development, although this was largely a matter of highly limited resources.
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Manifold: Time / int_2a542c7d	type	Beam Spam
Manifold: Time / int_2a542c7d	comment	Beam Spam: One of the tactics tried against the children's bubble. Didn't work.
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Manifold: Time / int_2bf84ccb	type	Omniscient Database
Manifold: Time / int_2bf84ccb	comment	Omniscient Database: Literally, in the case of the Downstreamers' computing substrate. It has access to all of the possible information that could exist in any quantum state the universe could take, but the Downstreamers have experienced all of those states multiple times, so they effectively know everything.
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Manifold: Time / int_3130e2c6	type	Uplifted Animal
Manifold: Time / int_3130e2c6	comment	Uplifted Animal: The genetically-engineered, intelligent squid descended from Sheena 5.
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Manifold: Time / int_33179374	type	Deity of Human Origin
Manifold: Time / int_33179374	comment	Deity of Human Origin: Despite Michael's claim that the Downstreamers are not gods, they certainly qualify as gods by human standards. They can influence events in the past and have more energy at their disposal than entire galaxies, can travel to other universes, create other universes, and their plan is essentially the gestation of a googolplex more, by sacrificing themselves and their history. SpaceBattles.com seems to think they're the Ur-Example of this trope, though they seem to have drawn considerable inspiration from late-nineties depictions of the Time Lords.
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Manifold: Time / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
Manifold: Time / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: The notes Malenfant leaves for himself inside the simulation in the distant future. Also, the strange matter nugget the Blues send back in time. But for the rest, the Downstreamers really are changing the past.
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Manifold: Time / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
Manifold: Time / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: The Downstreamers are beyond all laws of physics as we know them, allowing them to modify a few rules governing how the whole Manifold works and allow them to create infinite possibilities for life and mind.
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Manifold: Time / int_3dfdc686	type	Time-Passes Montage
Manifold: Time / int_3dfdc686	comment	Time Passes Montage: The journey of one of Cornelius' firefly robots through the downstream wormholes on Cruithne shows the spread of humanity across the galaxy and their subsequent adaptation and survival in an increasingly cold, vast, and diminishing universe, is all seen through the same point of view as the robot travels further and further in time through the portals.
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Manifold: Time / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Manifold: Time / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: To the other books in the Manifold series. The story is notable for likely making the other Manifold continuities possible by spawning a massive multiverse.
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Manifold: Time / int_45a177f1	type	Touched by Vorlons
Manifold: Time / int_45a177f1	comment	Touched by Downstreamers: Malenfant and Michael towards the end of the book.
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Manifold: Time / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Manifold: Time / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Wayne Dupree, and later the US government, who even resort to nuclear weapons.
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Manifold: Time / int_4aafd3c8	type	Fling a Light into the Future
Manifold: Time / int_4aafd3c8	comment	Fling a Light into the Future: Well, into the past, but close enough.
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Manifold: Time / int_4abc2ca9	type	Virtual Ghost
Manifold: Time / int_4abc2ca9	comment	Virtual Ghost: Malenfant at first thinks he has become one of these in the Downstreamer substrate, before Michael explains that it really is his original consciousness.
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Manifold: Time / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Manifold: Time / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Early in the fourth part of the book, the story skips five years after the Blue children evacuate to the Moon and Malenfant, Cornelius and Emma step through the Downstreamers' portal and before Maura goes to the Moon. After that there are more skips to 2051, 2079, 2102, 2147, 2207 and 2208 AD to reflect humanity's changes to adapt to the dwindling of Earth's natural resources and the coming Carter catastrophe, before the story ends with the Blue children's instigated vacuum collapse.
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Manifold: Time / int_65262dae	type	Goo-Goo-Godlike
Manifold: Time / int_65262dae	comment	Goo-Goo-Godlike: The Blue children, due to their intelligence.
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Manifold: Time / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
Manifold: Time / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: The so-called 'phoenix universes', where black holes cannot form, only have a single progeny born from the parent's Big Crunch.
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Manifold: Time / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Manifold: Time / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Watch the Moon, Malenfant".
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Manifold: Time / int_753a61d4	type	Time-Travel Tense Trouble
Manifold: Time / int_753a61d4	comment	Time-Travel Tense Trouble: The Blue children construct their own language which specifically accounts for this.
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Manifold: Time / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
Manifold: Time / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus Est Machina: The Downstreamer neutrino computer, capable of storing all of the information that could ever possibly exist in the universe.
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Manifold: Time / int_84a0c3bb	type	Natural End of Time
Manifold: Time / int_84a0c3bb	comment	Natural End of Time: The final era of the Downstreamers, where the heat death of the universe has come and gone. Matter itself is extinct due to proton decay, and even subatomic particles are stretched so thin across the empty cosmos that no further physical processes will ever occur.
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Manifold: Time / int_8618825d	type	Portal Network
Manifold: Time / int_8618825d	comment	Portal Network: Implied, although it could possibly be the same one, persisting throughout multiple universes and far into the future. Towards the end of the book, however, we do see an infinite tunnel of them.
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Manifold: Time / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Manifold: Time / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Malenfant has a moment of this during the time portal sequence, where he gets to witness the evolution of the Downstreamers' civilization. In the second to last jump, he is disappointed to see evidence of war (or at least conflict), and feels the Downstreamers are doing a "damned poor" job of surviving.
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Manifold: Time / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Manifold: Time / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Lampshaded by several of the characters, as they fear this would happen to them if they were a bit smarter and able to actually understand the implications of the things they were learning.
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Manifold: Time / int_8b221a63	type	Reed Richards Is Useless
Manifold: Time / int_8b221a63	comment	Reed Richards Is Useless: Played with. The Blue children offer humanity many advances, but humanity is too scared of them (combined with the Carter prediction) and decide to attack them instead. Even 200 years later on, they're still far behind what the children could come up with.
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Manifold: Time / int_8c4b72dd	type	United Nations Is a Superpower
Manifold: Time / int_8c4b72dd	comment	United Nations Is a Superpower: In 2079, the United Nations has evolved from a Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering to essentially a central authority for humanity.
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Manifold: Time / int_8c995bfc	type	Zero-G Spot
Manifold: Time / int_8c995bfc	comment	Zero-G Spot: It's mentioned that one spaceflight saw frequent zero-g orgies because the astronauts had no better way to pass their time. Malenfant and Emma also took part in this during their trip to Cruithne.
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Manifold: Time / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Manifold: Time / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: "Prodigy" doesn't even begin to describe the Blues, who are under the influence of a civilization from the end of the universe. Humanity as a whole is considerably freaked out by them.
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Manifold: Time / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Manifold: Time / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Class X-4: The Blue children instigate a vacuum collapse incident, causing the fabric of space to collapse into a new energy state within a bubble expanding at lightspeed.
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Manifold: Time / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Manifold: Time / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: The entire point of the book is how humans become this.
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Manifold: Time / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Manifold: Time / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The motivation of the Downstreamers. The Universe spawned no other intelligent life other than humanity itself, and the Downstreamers will have none of it. They reconfigure its vacuum state into one where black holes are much more frequently formed. Since every black hole singularity is a "cosmic egg" for a new Big Bang, they essentially germinate countless new universes by sacrificing one (along with themselves). They reason that intelligent life just has to evolve in these new circumstances. In addition, Malenfant gives up his chance at a life in the far future to stop Emma from ever going on the journey with him (during which she died).
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Manifold: Time / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
Manifold: Time / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: The Downstreamers are an extreme example, having a civilization that has persisted for over 10117 years (that's one billion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years). At one point in their evolution, Cornelius speculates that the trickle of energy they can suckle from the universe's few remaining black holes is just enough for them to put together an hour of consciousness over a span of a million years.
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Manifold: Time / int_9a3c3d17	type	The Omniscient
Manifold: Time / int_9a3c3d17	comment	The Omniscient: The Downstreamers' neutrino computer at the end of time contains all of the information, down to the quantum level, completely describing the history of the entire universe from the Big Bang to the end of time, but not only that, they have complete knowledge of all possible timelines. So they know everything that is happening, ever happened, ever will happen, ever could have happened, and ever might happen.
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Manifold: Time / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
Manifold: Time / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: In addition to the information the Downstreamers send back, Malenfant goes on a tour of the universes that existed before this one; he ends up in the distant future with the Downstreamers but chooses to travel back to just before the vacuum collapse incident.
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Manifold: Time / int_a08b0736	type	Nuclear Option
Manifold: Time / int_a08b0736	comment	Nuclear Option: The last resort against the Blue children. It doesn't work.
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Manifold: Time / int_a9c7258a	type	Absent Aliens
Manifold: Time / int_a9c7258a	comment	Absent Aliens: Despite coming to dominate the universe, humanity never found any other intelligent life.
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Manifold: Time / int_b8c34249	type	Galactic Superpower
Manifold: Time / int_b8c34249	comment	Galactic Superpower: The galaxy-spanning empire of humanity's descendants 75 million years in the future.
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Manifold: Time / int_b9882b33	type	Bizarre Baby Boom
Manifold: Time / int_b9882b33	comment	Bizarre Baby Boom: The appearance of the super-intelligent Blue children around the world.
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Manifold: Time / int_b9e8ad28	type	The Multiverse
Manifold: Time / int_b9e8ad28	comment	The Multiverse: Referred to as The Manifold.
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Manifold: Time / int_bb03c099	type	Cool Gate
Manifold: Time / int_bb03c099	comment	Cool Gate: The Downstreamer portals.
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Manifold: Time / int_bb18e3c9	type	Detonation Moon
Manifold: Time / int_bb18e3c9	comment	Detonation Moon: Happens as a prelude to the vacuum collapse.
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Manifold: Time / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Manifold: Time / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: What the Downstreamers did to survive the heat death of the universe. However, this still isn't enough, as they face a pointless existence as ghosts in a cosmic void and decide to alter the unimaginably distant past. In Manifold: Origin, they escape their inevitable fate by reaching an even higher level of existence.
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Manifold: Time / int_d10d5eb5	type	Made of Indestructium
Manifold: Time / int_d10d5eb5	comment	Made of Indestructium: The Blue children's bubble survives both a nuke and a barrage of lasers. The Downstreamers' portals, made from moulded space-time, are completely indestructible to brute force, and can transport anything that goes through them to any point in time or space, or even to other universes along the Manifold. The time portal still exist, completely undamaged or altered, 10117 years in the future, when all the matter in the universe had decayed to nothingness and the heat death had used up all energy. Some Downstreamers, who don't come from the Afterglow (which means the period of time when there were still stars in the universe) are born from naked singularities and could survive even when exposed to a naked singularity on close proximity.
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Manifold: Time / int_d75a1703	type	Year Outside, Hour Inside
Manifold: Time / int_d75a1703	comment	Year Outside, Hour Inside: The silver timeship at the end of the book works like this.
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Manifold: Time / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
Manifold: Time / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: A major subplot involves Malenfant using squid, modified to be more intelligent, as a space exploration force. This is told from a squid's perspective.
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Manifold: Time / int_e2f5760	type	House Husband
Manifold: Time / int_e2f5760	comment	House Husband: Bill Tybee is described as a father who stays at home to take care of his children.
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Manifold: Time / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Manifold: Time / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: A few fanatical religious sects spring up after the announcement of the Carter catastrophe.
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Manifold: Time / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Manifold: Time / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Despite being descended from humans, the Downstreamers are described this way, the only real thing they have in common with modern humans being the instinct to survive. And arguably not even that, as the Downstreamers end up sacrificing themselves and the entire universe to give birth to more interesting universes.
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Manifold: Time / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Manifold: Time / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Downstreamers do, at least initially, until they realize their ultimate fate is to be locked in a sterile, never-changing cosmos. So they go back and fix things. It's implied they survived in some form (expanded in Manifold: Origin).
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Manifold: Time / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Manifold: Time / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The 2010 Earth, which contains things such as commonly available self-driving cars, foldable, clothlike computers (softscreens) and AI therapists. Keep in mind this book was written in 1999.
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Manifold: Time / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: The Blue children's space-time bubble. In fact, it's actually infinitely big on the inside, despite being only a few meters across on the outside.
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Manifold: Time / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: When one of the Sheenas journeys to the end of time, when the universe is empty and the Sheena will soon freeze to death... the Downstreamers save her.
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