User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-26322734-20161130044819

So I've been thinking about what you said about Lawrence's inherent singularity and I've come across a problem, which can possibly be extended as a cosmological problem with the singularity ability itself.

You had said that Lawrence always experiences things "in the moment", a single, eternal present and that he does not exist in any other timelines. Which is completely fine, but if you really get into thinking about it, it raises a few questions.

First, we can probably assume that there is only one universe where Lawrence "exists", and no other continuity where he does -- obvious, right? He is a singular, immortal being that exists not in the past or the future, but within a single, eternal present. Okay, that is easy enough to understand.

However, the problem comes in when you think about the development of the multiverse as a whole. If you're going by the Many Worlds Interpretation -- which I think you've implied you do with an earlier question of mine -- the issue comes to light if you think about it. If universes are created as alternate events to things that have happened (if someone walked up to a baseball and picked it up, there'd be another universe where they hadn't picked the ball up), then that would ultimately mean that Lawrence halts the development of the multiverse as a whole. Stagnates it, in fact.

Allow me to explain. If Lawrence were in a universe -- let's call it Universe A -- and he does an action, the multiverse would be unable to create a Universe B where he did not do that action because of the fact that Lawrence is a singular being; there can not be any alternate universe variations of him.

Of course, you could get around this by saying the multiverse could create a copy universe where it wasn't Lawrence performing the action, but someone else that they could copy, but that still stagnates the universe. You can create a lot of universes that way by replacing "Lawrence" with just about anybody else, but that would create limited options, as there are likely a limited amount of people that can be in the place of Lawrence. You'd be able to create a Universe B, C, and D -- for a long while, but you wouldn't be able to create an infinite amount of universes without the option of Lawrence.

So this basically implies that whenever he goes to a universe, McGuffins it up, fixes it, and takes a companion with him, there's never a universe where he didn't do that, or he did something else, because that would require another Lawrence, which is impossible. This wouldn't be a problem in the short term, especially not with Lawrence, because even with the multiverse stagnating because of his singular existence, there would still be a lot out there, but eventually it would add up. An infinite multiverse is impossible without the multiverse in question being able to infinitely copy the entities within.

So, based on my little deduction here, only one thing is possible either way:

The multiverse is not unlimited, just very, very big.

Which doesn't seem to be a problem until you think of Lawrence's powers. He doesn't create stuff out of nothing. He uses templates, fuses them and copies them from things he's previously absorbed. If the entire multiverse is a resource to him, and the multiverse is limited, that means his resources are limited. Ergo, his powers cannot be called "limitless".

So am I overthinking this completely? Or does Lawrence have a way around this? I'm curious. :)