Originally posted by Astner
It wasn't. It was a gross misrepresentation physics seemingly based off a pop science article or a documentary. It's a misrepresentation of the Endless as well since they came into existence at the beginning of the universe. Hence why Destiny is the oldest of them, Death the second oldest, and so on. So they're not eternal concepts like Tyler argued.The 4th dimension was the only thing that caught my attention too, because he forgot what he had written and thought that it was the spiritual realm. When he had written it to be time in Justice League #19.
He fumbles to explain the spatial dimensions confusing zero dimensional space (a dot) and one dimensional space (a line) for one dimensional space (a line) and two dimensional space (a plane), there's also the problem with describing three-dimensional space (volume) as "material stuff" but it's a bit more forgiving, and the fourth dimension is as per the metric tensor time.
That doesn't look particularly infinite to me. Even then it's not clarified that it is the Pre-Crisis Multiverse.
I'm not going to take vague references over the 52 numbered universes in the multiverse unless there's a specific explanation that ties it together. The main reason for this is because the 52 universes are variations of each other.
In the Orrey of Worlds you have the 52 universes, numbered 0 to 51 and beyond that you have the spheres of the gods, the Speedforce, limbo, and eventually the Source Wall. That's the official explanation we've been given. It's not 100% coherent, but that's comics in general. However, we're still left with Morrison's map that specifically outlines 52 universes.
The Dark Multiverse is tied to the 52 universes. But since it's based off choice and happenstance (not to mention that they're unstable and collapse as frequently as they form) it's also finite.
With the Empty Hand arc we were introduced to different multiverses, but these supposedly existed beyond the Source Wall, i.e. beyond the DC multiverse, and while this may actually be infinite Perpetua didn't create that.
As far as we know this isn't of any significance. It doesn't say anything specific about her or her abilities.
The issue with these explanations is that they rely on Hyper-time (i.e. everything is canon is some way or form) and particular interpretations of vague statements to construct a cosmology that's very different from the one explored in the comics.
And if you follow these models the comics will make even less sense.
Again, there's very little substance here.
Yes, it takes an infinite number of two dimensional planes (x, y, dz) to construct a three dimensional volume (x, y, z). That's what an integral is: an infinite sum of infinitesimal elements.
But even then you end up with a sixth dimensional Perpetua, and an infinite dimensional Beyonder.
I'm not putting too much emphasis on the dimensionality of these characters. I'd still argue that World's Funnest Mr. Mxyzptlk would beat the Pre-retcon Beyonder based on their actual feats despite the fact that he's a five-dimensional imp.
Being infinite dimensional means jackshit in comics. Beyonder's best feat is shaking the multiverse in a fight with Molecule Man and creating a universe (bigger than multiverse) with all his energy.
Not sure why that's so impressive. Even sphere of Gods dwarfs the infinite multiverse and then there's dark multiverse which houses three separate infinite multiverses just now (Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis) and that was created by just World Forger (far below Perpetua).
