Galaxy Timelines? Science-Fiction or Something to Think About?

In Grlpire’s latest novel, Journey Into The Pink Desert, Love Across Time, our characters are faced with questions that feel complex, yet carry answers in simplistic form, leaving science fiction fans to wonder. For those drawn to space, time, and other galactic themes, these questions do more than stretch imagination, they begin to reshape how we understand what may already exist and new things to learn. In this story, a group of young women, first introduced in the prequel Bull Pin University Comic Book, are pulled into an alternate universe through a black hole anomaly. As the characters progress through the story, they’re introduced to a new Civilization filled with robotic companions, estranged laws, and serene new-looking environments. What begins as a mission to return to normalcy evolves into a deeper exploration of time itself, as they move between Civilization 1 and Civilization 0, encountering new environments, unfamiliar systems, and forces they do not yet understand. It is within this movement that the idea of a “timetravel” begins to shift, not as a straight path, but as something more structured, more spatial, as described in a defining moment:

 “I’ve been studying time travel; specifically how civilizations move across timelines… Our galaxies circulate on an upside-down spiral…and if you draw a line straight across between destinations, it represents where each planet lands according to their time coordinates. Hurry, we do not have much time,” explains one of the novel’s main characters. In their hurried pursuit to safety, readers are left to wonder, what is time travel?

Is time something that passes, or is it a placemark? Does it just move forward, or is going back in time a concept that we’ve constructed according to how we’ve constructed time? Is distance a factor in how we determine time within our universe, or is it a measure of how far we move? Are we living on a timeline connected by other galaxies, and if we are, who else is on our timeline? These questions sit at the center of our Cone Theory, a fictional theory explored in Journey Into The Pink Desert, Love Across Time that imagines time not as a straight line but as a positional structure connected through galaxies, movement, and cosmic alignment. While the theory itself is science fiction, parts of the inspiration behind it are rooted in real scientific observations that continue to challenge how humanity understands the universe. NASA and other space organizations have spent decades researching concepts related to spacetime, black holes, gravitational waves, cosmic expansion, and the movement of galaxies. Modern astronomy already confirms something extraordinary: the universe itself is moving and expanding. According to NASA’s Hubble observations, galaxies are continuously moving farther apart as space expands, a phenomenon known as cosmological redshift, where light stretches and shifts toward red as galaxies drift across enormous cosmic distances. This means the universe is not static. It is active, dynamic, and constantly changing. Even more fascinating is the idea that when we observe distant galaxies, we are actually observing the past. Because light takes time to travel, a galaxy millions or billions of light-years away appears to us not as it exists now, but as it existed long ago. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has even allowed astronomers to observe galaxies from the early universe, effectively looking billions of years backward through cosmic history. In many ways, astronomy itself already functions like a form of natural time observation.

This is where the idea behind Galaxy Timelines begins to feel less like fantasy and more like a philosophical extension of existing science. If distance changes what we see in time, then it becomes interesting to ask whether time itself could somehow relate to spatial positioning. In Grlpire’s Cone Theory, galaxies exist along a massive spiral structure wrapped around a cone-like universe, where each galaxy carries a specific time coordinate based on its placement. In real cosmology, scientists already discuss how spacetime itself bends and curves under gravity. Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity describes gravity not as an invisible force pulling objects together, but as the bending of spacetime caused by mass and energy. NASA explains that massive objects like black holes distort spacetime so intensely that even light cannot escape their pull. While science does not currently support the idea that black holes lead directly to alternate universes, theoretical physics has long explored the possibility of wormholes, structures that could hypothetically connect distant points in spacetime. NASA scientists have described wormholes as theoretical shortcuts allowed within the mathematics of General Relativity, though no evidence currently proves they exist physically.

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Journey Into The Pink Desert Love Across Time, uses Grlpire’s artistic explanation and wormholes, which are interpreted differently. Rather than being naturally occurring tunnels floating through space, they are formed through extreme motion, where an object traveling fast enough creates “time bubbles” that stretch and distort around it, forming a worm-like visual through the structure of the timeline itself. This fictional interpretation takes inspiration from the real scientific relationship between speed, gravity, and time. While Grlpire’s artistic style is a mix between literalism and fantasy, Einstein’s work already demonstrated that time behaves differently depending on speed and gravitational intensity. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station technically experience time slightly differently than people on Earth because of velocity and gravitational variation, although the differences are extremely small. The idea that motion can affect time is therefore not entirely fictional. Grlpire simply expands the concept creatively into a larger narrative structure. 

That’s what makes Grlpire such a strong science fiction concept, it creates room for creative exploration, deeper questions, and positive imagination. The concept of Civilization 0 and Civilization 1 in the novels also reflects another scientific and philosophical idea that has fascinated futurists for decades: the Kardashev Scale, a theory proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev that measures civilizations based on energy usage and technological advancement. In the prologue of Journey Into The Pink Desert, humanity is described as ascending into a Type I Civilization, harnessing planetary energy while simultaneously struggling with ecological and societal consequences. This reflects real scientific conversations about sustainability, energy systems, climate challenges, and technological acceleration. NASA itself studies planetary systems, climate science, and long-term survival strategies for humanity as space exploration expands. The novels take these existing concerns and imagine how they might evolve over centuries into new societal structures, robotic systems, and sufficiency-driven civilizations.

Another compelling scientific parallel involves gravitational waves and spacetime ripples. NASA explains that when massive objects like black holes collide, they generate ripples across spacetime itself, known as gravitational waves. These ripples travel enormous distances through the universe and can now be detected by scientific instruments such as LIGO. In fiction, ideas like these inspire questions about whether spacetime is more fluid than humanity once believed. If spacetime can ripple, bend, stretch, and expand, then perhaps movement across it could eventually become more navigable than currently imagined. The Cone Theory imagines timelines as positional layers within a moving cosmic structure, where galaxies circulate across an upside-down spiral connected through placement and alignment. Though fictional, it draws emotional and conceptual inspiration from real scientific mysteries humanity still struggles to fully explain. As mentioned, The Cone Theory observes black holes not simply as destructive forces, but as symbolic points connected to the “beginning of time,” represented as the narrowing tip of a spiral. While theoretical and fictional, the idea reflects a broader reality within cosmology: humanity still does not fully understand the structure or expansion of the universe.

NASA research also continues to explore one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark energy. Scientists believe dark energy may be responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe, yet its true nature remains unknown. In other words, even modern cosmology still contains unanswered questions about why the universe behaves the way it does. There are gaps in understanding. There are structures and forces humanity has not fully mapped. This uncertainty creates need not only for scientific discovery, but also for science fiction to imagine possibilities beyond current limits. Science fiction has always thrived in those unknown spaces, asking difficult questions before science has definitive answers.

That is ultimately where Journey Into The Pink Desert positions itself. The novel does not claim to explain the universe scientifically, nor does it attempt to replace established physics. Instead, it explores what happens when scientific curiosity, imagination, philosophy, and emotion intersect. The characters move through environments that challenge their understanding of time and reality while readers are invited to consider deeper questions about existence itself. What if timelines are not simply chronological sequences but positions within a larger structure? What if movement through space also represents movement through time? What if civilizations separated by galaxies are connected through placements we do not yet understand? And perhaps most importantly, if humanity is only beginning to understand spacetime now, what discoveries might still wait ahead?

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The beauty of science fiction has never been in proving what is true. Its beauty lies in its ability to encourage thought, curiosity, and exploration. Long before humanity reached the moon, science fiction imagined space travel. Long before modern communication systems existed, uplifting stories imagined instant global communication. Imagination often arrives before discovery. In that way, theories like Galaxy Timelines and the Cone Theory are not presented as facts, but as invitations to think differently about the universe and our place within it. Whether readers interpret these ideas as imaginative fiction, philosophical reflection, or inspiration for future scientific possibility is entirely up to them. But perhaps that is the point. The unknown has always pushed humanity forward, and sometimes the most powerful stories are not the ones that provide answers, but the ones that encourage us to keep asking questions.