Originally posted by leonidasThe Earths represent the universes they belong to but it's the force that attracts them that is the X factor. He literally caught a planet so it's not velocity, it's the unknown attractive force the respective universes are moving towards one another using their Earth like a magnet.
i think the idea of the incursions was that the universes were randomly colliding with neighbors as a result of the initial contraction. but i agree with part of what you said--we don't know what kind of force was driving the earths together. we can't know how fast they were traveling toward each other either, but they seemed to be moving very slowly.... regardless though, do you agree they could only have held up under the pressure each earth would have been able to withstand?that would have been.....a LOT of pressure. the feat is crazy. but clearly a planet could not have withstand being compressed by the full inertia of a universe...right?
More to your point about "representation", It was said that the Earth's are more than what you see and it's a metaphysical "tip of the iceberg" so you really can believe and argue it's actual universes colliding cause there is evidence supporting that. The doubt is only cause they're depicted as just Earths but then there is an explanation for that