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It's a day like every day, a job like every other job, a shift like every other shift after shift after shift. Nothing ever changes yet nothing is ever the same. But amidst the chaos of it all, one thing remains a constant, unchangeable variable: Ricky's looking for something--someone, and every choice, made or not, is a fractal in an infinite scheme.

This is not the first encounter with William Afton--Dave Miller--Steve Raglan--the Yellow Rabbit--and neither will it be the last. The problem is that there was never a beginning, only a messy middle drenched in agony and regret. There is an end however, and it's been seen reflected on the surface of a red lake.

It ends where it was always meant to end: in a hospital room, by the bedside of a crying child.

This is not a time loop, for time is not linear.

Although new inflation is classically rolling down the potential, quantum fluctuations can sometimes lift it to previous levels. These regions in which the inflaton fluctuates upwards, expand much faster than regions in which the inflaton has a lower potential energy, and tend to dominate in terms of physical volume. It has been shown that any inflationary theory with an unbounded potential is eternal. There are well-known theorems that this steady state cannot continue forever into the past. Inflationary spacetime, which is similar to de Sitter space, is incomplete without a contracting region. However, unlike de Sitter space, fluctuations in a contracting inflationary space collapse to form a gravitational singularity, a point where densities become infinite. Therefore, it is necessary to have a theory for the Universe's initial conditions.

Envision it like this: the universe within the Universe is a lot like a ball pit.

- Kronbach, Steinhardt, et al. (1983)