The Divine Continuum is the abstract representation of all the Creation from the DC Comics. It's part of the Greater Omniverse.
History
According to Dr. Bonnie Baxter, the Divine Continuum is Existence itself, formed by two separate aspects of reality: the first half is the Space, which is physically represented by the so-called Infinite Frontier, a little-scaled omniverse that is in turn part of the Greater Omniverse; the second half is Time which is represented by the abstraction known as Hypertime, a collection of all the infinite Alternate Timelines and Possible Futures.
The Space aspect has always been represented by the various iterations of the Multiverse since its birth at the hands of the Super-Celestial Perpetua. Due to the many Crises that the Multiverse has faced as a consequence of various attacks, the Space aspect has always been changing, being shaping around a single universe referred to as the "Metaverse", until The Hands of the Greater Omniverse chose to incorporate all of them inside an omniverse.
This Omniverse is stated to be conceptual at its core while the Hypertime is emotional as it perpetually changes due to a natural reaction to the events as well as to direct manipulations of the Timestream: the timeline is split for every major crossroads which leads to the birth of endless possibilities.
The bridge between the two halves of the Divine Continuum was discovered during the Zero Hour event, the "First Crisis in Time", which slightly changed the history of New Earth.
Although it is the very foundation of reality, the concept behind the Divine Continuum was unknown even to the greatest minds in all existence.[1] The Post-Flashpoint counterparts of the Time Masters are the only ones to have knowledge of the Divine Continuum: the leader of the Time Masters, Rip Hunter, has also drawn a schematic explanation of the Divine Continuum's structure on a note in the Time Masters' lair.[2]
The Divine Continuum's existence became a well-known fact a few days after the Dark Crisis as one of the Time Masters, Dr. Bonnie Baxter, revealed to the world its existence in a talk show which the genius superhero Michael Holt/Mr. Terrific was also attending. As Mr. Terrific began explaining the alterations to the Multiverse due to the various Crises, Bonnie Baxter revealed to him and the rest of the world that the Multiverse was just an aspect of the Divine Continuum, as Time is the most dangerous aspect, due to the Hypertime Crises completely replacing the timeline and leaving no awareness of the past events except for vague memories, due to the so-called Mandela Effect.[1]
Notes
- Being a two-side abstraction, the Divine Continuum probably came to be after the World Forger created Hypertime which, however, happened several billion years after the birth of the first Multiverse.
- The Infinite Frontier currently representing the Space side of the Divine Continuum implies that, before its creation, the many iterations of the Multiverse represented it since the very beginning.
Trivia
- The Divine Continuum's name is obviously a pun on DC Comics.
- Rip Hunter's scheme also highlights the D and C letters.