"Do you see this?"
"This is what happens when there is uncontrolled growth, exponential growth must be followed by a period of stagnation, of inertia otherwise the species manages to destroy itself." said the instructor, displeased with his student, "You cannot make such elementary mistakes."
The student listened calmly, agreed and then continued completely disregarding what the instructor said just as he had planned.
He was onto something, he knew it, he couldn't explain it fully, but he knew it.
And so he allowed his creations to follow the path of exponential growth, it was his 30000th set of creations, the 30000th set on which he was testing out his idea.
The first set had been annihilated as soon as they developed industry and planet wide technology, they were self destructive yes but the student knew that this was more or less unavoidable, so for the next time he decided that the ecology of the planet would have to be extraordinarily stable.
But how would one even approach maximum ecological balance?, how would one ensure that equilibrium was maintained?
It took him another 10 sets to reach the answer.
A riot of species.
An ecology with literally billions of organisms, millions of different species and exceptionally short life times and an active mechanism of genetic recombination.
But he still had problems, his species was still self destructive.
His sets always advanced far faster than they could manage, they needed a periodic regulator, a regulator that would promote growth...it seemed to be a paradox.
Was there any way to promote growth and regulate in one factor?
He tried out many possibilities but none of them gave any results.
He realized what he had to do on his 27th set.
The solution wasn't standard, but it was brilliant.
It was self modifying.
In fact it would never stop unless he wanted it to.
He would allow his sets to select themselves.
Naturally he would occasionally interfere, but most of the time he would allow stochastic processes to take hold, he would create his ultimate set.
But this failed.
Most of the time the two sets who would compete would destroy each other, they would push each other of the path of exponential growth, their own dimensions would decay, they would sooner or later be rendered incapable of war.
Mutual destruction seemed to be unavoidable.
So he asked himself what he would do next.
The solution was the same one he had previously.
Allow randomness to take hold.
He made a billion systems and forced them to compete against each other, of course he selected the victors not on basis of win or loss but on basis of performance.
And so a hierarchy of qualities began to develop, and soon he discovered that a perfect system was still out of his grasp, his systems were marvelous but they were still not perfect.
So he repeated this process, again and again he tried every single permutation of qualities, every timescale possible, and then he began to approach the solution.
This propelled him to greatness.
He was the greatest among his people.
It was obvious, the first person to create a feasible exponential growth pattern.
What genius!
Who would have thought it was possible?
But this had a little bit of a cost that none of the Student's people considered.
They ignored the fact that the creations were beings of their own, not some toys to be played with of course this fact were ignored.
We call the Student, chaos in our dimensions.
And this is the story of Two dimensions.
Two out of the many billions.
This is the story of Alpha and Omega.