Where Do the Tetris Blocks Come From?

A Second Essay for the Curious Mind Who Wonders: What is the Source of Time Itself?

In our first essay, we invited you to imagine the universe as a vast game of Tetris, where each falling shape is a quantum particle in superposition. As it "lands" through interaction with the classical world, it contributes its vote to reality. Time, in this view, is built one block at a time, through trillions of these decisions happening every second.

But some of you asked a deeper question. A crucial one:

Where do the blocks come from?

If each moment of time is born from a particle's decoherence, then the source of these particles is also the source of time itself. And if time stretches infinitely into the future, or even the past—then mustn’t that source also be infinite?

DQT and the Edge of Explanation

Distributed Quantum Temporalism (DQT) is not a theory of everything. It doesn’t pretend to be. It tells us how time emerges once coherent quantum systems exist. It explains the conversion of uncertainty into classical fact. But it begins with an assumption:

> That coherent quantum particles exist in superposition, ready to decohere.

It doesn’t tell us why these particles exist, or where they come from. Not yet.

But we can explore possibilities. And by doing so, we stretch the DQT framework outward—toward the edge of the known.

Possibility 1: The Infinite Quantum Field

One of the most accepted ideas in modern physics is Quantum Field Theory (QFT). It tells us that space is never truly empty. Instead, it's filled with invisible fields—like the electromagnetic field, or the electron field.

These fields ripple, like water. And sometimes, those ripples become real particles.

In this view, the universe has an infinite potential to create coherent particles, because the fields themselves never run out. Like a limitless ocean, they can always ripple again.

DQT could then be layered on top:

The fields give us superposed quantum particles.

DQT tells us how those particles turn into time.

Possibility 2: A Higher-Dimensional Source

Another possibility is that the coherent particles we observe are just shadows of a deeper reality. In theories like String Theory or M-Theory, our universe is not all that exists. There are extra dimensions, unseen by us, vibrating with structure.

What we see as a particle might be the tip of a higher-dimensional wave.

In this view:

The infinite source of particles lies beyond our spacetime.

What we experience as decoherence is a kind of dimensional resonance: the moment when a higher-dimensional pattern imprints itself on our 4D world.

Each Tetris piece that falls isn’t just random—it’s a projection of a deeper pattern.

Possibility 3: Time Is Self-Generating

Here’s the most radical possibility:

> That decoherence creates time, and that time in turn allows for the creation of more quantum systems, which in turn decohere.

A self-sustaining loop.

Not a linear chain of causes, but a cycle. An eternal recursion where uncertainty becomes time, and time creates new uncertainty.

In this view:

The universe is not powered by a starting point, but by an ongoing process of transformation.

Like a fire that burns by turning fuel into heat, the universe burns quantum uncertainty into temporal structure.

The source isn’t outside the game. The game is the source.

This aligns beautifully with DQT:

Decoherence doesn’t just end superposition.

It creates the conditions for new superpositions to arise.

The system regenerates itself, moment by moment.

What Does This Mean For Us?

It means that the question "Where do the blocks come from?" might not have a single answer. It may have many, depending on how deep we look.

But here's what DQT gives us:

A map from uncertainty to reality.

A process that explains how time is built, not just perceived.

And a way to think of ourselves not as spectators, but participants in the making of time.

Because even if the source is infinite—quantum fields, higher dimensions, or something else entirely—the process of crystallizing those potentials into reality is happening right here, right now, and we are part of it.

Final Thought

So where do the Tetris blocks come from?

From the infinite. From the unknown. From the depths of possibility.

But where they land?

That part is up to us.