CHAPTER 1 – The Ninth-Dimensional World
Humanity, after thousands of years of development, had reached the level of the ninth dimension. This development had not only changed space travel or scientific research. The entire order of the world in which people lived had also been rebuilt over time.
From the planet’s energy systems to transportation, from production centers to healthcare services, most of the systems that sustained daily life were managed by robots. People no longer needed to remain constantly at the controls of systems for cities to function. Energy needs were met automatically, transportation networks regulated themselves, and needed products were prepared in robotic production centers.
Robots had long since ceased to be merely machines that carried out tasks given by humans. They monitored the infrastructure of cities, identified malfunctions as they arose and often carried out the necessary intervention before people were even aware of the problem. Most of the planet had been arranged in such a way that it could operate for long periods without human intervention.
For this reason, people did not need to work constantly in order to sustain their lives. Working was no longer a mandatory condition for making a living. People could pursue the fields that interested them, participate in scientific research or live their lives according to their own preferences.
Nearly all of the major problems that humanity had to solve on its own planet had been left behind. Energy, production, transportation and resource problems, which had once determined the future of civilizations, were no longer among the fundamental issues of daily life.
But the decrease in the number of problems left for people to solve did not cause research to come to an end. On the contrary, scientists’ attention gradually began to turn toward more distant places.
First the boundaries of their own star systems had been crossed, then other stars and galaxies had been explored. Humanity had long been able to travel through the accessible regions of its own universe.
After a while, a new question began to be discussed in the scientific world.
Was the universe in which humans lived the only universe that existed?
At first, this question was only the subject of theoretical studies. But with the development of ninth-dimensional technology, findings began to emerge showing that other universes might not be merely a mathematical possibility.
For the first time, humanity had before it a new field of research extending beyond its own world, its stars and even its own universe.
