#this started as science but it turned into a bunch on theory juice and lore

[lavendermoon48]

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HAVE A SCIENCE INFO DUMP/ THEORY ABOUT SBG GO

okokok this is gonna be a real science and theory infodump so feel free to scroll 

so from my understanding in order to jump dimension to dimension you need energy. like a shit ton of it. like almost black hole (well theoretically black hole amount bc there's a theory that black holes are wormholes but that's science for an other time)

this implies that something had to have made a crap tom of energy in sbg. now i understand that it may not be gulley scientifically accurate cuz i mean this kinda science is really theoretical and im no professional.

so as far as i can tell things started when ashlyn was born. which in turn connected ash to the phantom dimension (im assuming its a different dimension) so something must have created X amount of energy to connect the dimensions.

as we see a phantom temporarily crosses over to our dimension and cuts mike which means something brought it there, but what?

now we don't have too much info on the cranes past/ backstory BUT knowing that something had to have created enough energy to connect the dimensions.

my theory is that the cranes (in the past) were already researching alternate/ different dimentions around the time ash was born

now we don't know the exact location of ash's birth or the cranes facility (unless i missed something) so i think it is very possible that the night ash was born the cranes started as experiment and generated a bunch of energy to jump dimensions, but something went wrong and it pulled emma, mike, and ash into the dimension for a moment

this could have given ash and her parents a connection to the phantom dimension, but especially ash because she was still very little (literally out of the womb) and could have affected her differently

if this is the case you may be wondering 'then why didn't the cranes take ash and her family sooner?' to which i say they didn't know about her connection

i think they didn't realize about ash until she was a bit older and even then there was really no way to  confirm that she had any connection at all

that is until they went to the sorrel house, (which i feel like plays a bigger role, we just haven't figured out how yet) where she had an active encounter with the phantom dimension

maybe the sorrel house had a bunch of energy from something and that's how the gang was able to temporarily cross over and how ash 'pulled them in'