The tension between what could be and what is not — the first engine of existence.
At the foundation of all existence — before the appearance of dimensions, space, time, matter, or mind — lies a deeper condition: the interplay of Possibility and Nothingness.
Possibility and Nothingness — as primal conditions — are beyond everything.
They have no size, no dimension, no time.
They aren’t forces or things.
They don’t happen.
And yet, they are the generative mechanism — the origin of all structured reality.
From them arise dimensions and consciousness.
From dimensions and consciousness emerge the appearances of realities, universes, worlds, and all else.
This is an ongoing, everlasting condition: the perpetual trembling between what could exist and what does not, giving rise to the entire recursive architecture of realities.
Every act of stabilization — every crystallized dimension, every conscious entity or field, every universe — remains suspended within this deeper tension.
Not a Beginning, But a Condition
From a human perspective, we imagine a beginning: a first spark, a moment of origin.
But if we try to consider it separately from everything — outside time, outside structure — then it has never really “begun”.
It has never happened in a conventional sense, and yet it is always happening.
Time exists only within certain dimensions.
It does not exist beyond them — not at the level of Possibility and Nothingness.
So what occurred trillions of years ago (from our human point of view),
what seems to be happening now,
and what might occur in the distant future —
are all the same event, viewed from different internal positions.
Possibility and Nothingness are always present.
And from their nature, multitudes of dimensions appear —
and disappear in the same instant.
In other words, it is all now.
But from beyond dimensional structure, it is as if none of it has ever existed at all.
Within dimensions, time unfolds.
There, realities evolve.
Consciousness grows.
Civilizations rise.
Eons pass.
But outside — at the level of that primal tension —
nothing lasts.
Nothing begins.
There is only this continuous trembling:
the arising and dissolving of realities
that may as well have never been.
Why Possibility and Nothingness?
This raises a deeper question:
Why do Possibility and Nothingness exist at all?
The answer — as close as it can be made comprehensible to a human mind — is:
They don’t.
Possibility and Nothingness are not things that exist.
They are ongoing events within Infinity, arising at the boundary of being and non-being — forever allowing dimensions, consciousness, and realities to flicker into coherence.
Is there a Nothingness?
No — because there is Possibility.
Is there a Possibility?
No — because there is Nothingness.
Neither can stand alone.
Each implies, negates, and requires the other.
In this way, even the foundations of existence are unstable — not structures, not laws, but a trembling motion that permits realities to briefly cohere, and vanish again.
Although Possibility and Nothingness form the primal tension from which dimensions arise, they themselves originate from an even deeper source — the inherent uncertainty of Infinity itself.
This deeper foundation is explored in Axis 0: Infinity as the Primal Cause of Being (previous section).
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15385020