growing universe

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

The growing-universe picture treats actuality as an enlarging record of events rather than a completed block. In Kastner’s version, transactions establish spacetime connections, while the present is the interface of actualization from which the record recedes into the past. Growth occurs transaction by transaction, without a universal advancing plane of simultaneity.

Explanation

RB1 distinguishes the quantum substratum of real possibilities from the actual spacetime record. The present, used strictly, names the interface at which a transaction yields a definite event. It is not the whole accumulated past and does not move forward as an observable cosmic surface.

Kastner’s knitting analogy changes between editions: the later account narrows the present from a row to a single stitch. Each actualization defines its own local present. This qualification protects the model from being rewritten as a preferred global frame in which all events become actual together.

RB2 calls the actualized record the wake and the interface the crest, preserving their difference from potentia. Its gravity and cosmology discussion remains explicitly contested and illustrative. A growing record is therefore an adopted interpretive picture here, not a new empirical proof of transactional cosmology.

Scope and attribution

Preserve the interpretation and its limits; do not certify emergent-gravity claims.

AB — The Actual Book

The knitting image concerns a created fabric rather than a pre-existing container.

Occurrence locators: 37, 39, 146; Glossary: 221, 222; Notes: 237, 238, 244.

PB — The Possible Book

Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.

Occurrence locators: 32, 92, 167; Notes: 41.

RB1 — The Real Book, Volume I: The Possible Is Real

The past grows while local actualization defines the present.

Occurrence locators: 60, 66, 67, 68, 70, 73, 74, 92, 99, 101, 139; Notes: 66.

RB2 — The Real Book, Volume II: Becoming Is Being

Crest, wake and substratum remain distinct within a contested program.

Occurrence locators: 214, 232, 264, 265, 266, 267; Epigraph: 250.

Background used in the editorial explanation

Named theories and mechanisms are distinguished from neighboring background, homonyms and the author’s own synthesis. Reproduced AI passages retain their separate voice.