Wanna give a brief summary of what's happening in new Flash volume.
First and foremost, a distinction between the Speed Force and the Still Force should be made: The Speed Force, as defined in previous comics, is, for lack of a better term, causality itself, it is repeatedly defined as something that exists
throughout all of space, time and dimensions, with the issue preceding vol. 6 of The Flash straight up calling it an
omni-dimensional quantum constant, it is also
defined numerous times as being change itself, or the reason why the Multiverse is in constant motion, and so, it clearly acts as a sort-of Multiversal time dimension. The Still Force is,
as its direct opposite, the exact antithesis of all of that: it is changelessness, it is acausality, as The Crown of Thawnes
defines it, to be 'still' is to be '
immutable'. Wally after attaining stillness also goes
outside of time and the thread of his own story.
Or, in VSBW terms, it is what it means to have Acausality (Type 4).
In
#11, we get this line from a Linear Man, who tells Barry that all forces (Speed, Still, Sphere of Gods, ect.) are ultimately made out of one substance: Time. And to be clear, this definitely isn't the time that an Earth within the Orrery of Worlds operates on, since the Speed Force–which encompasses all time in the Multiverse–is a subset of this capital-T Time. Likewise, the Speed Force (or 'change' itself)
is seen as something that sucks on Time to transmute it into change, so Time in this context is definitely not some causal system. As a further addition to that, it is also most probably the same Time that Worlds Finest talks about, i.e. the Sixth Dimension.
You could look at both the Speed and Still Forces as being two properties that things within the Multiverse operate on: mutablity (change, motion, ect.) and immutablity (stillness, acausality, ect.)
It's not very difficult to see why the Garden would be something that is immutable: the comic
defines it as a place where speed doesn't exist, it also exists beyond space and time, therefore, isn't subject to change, which is something we see within it where everyone is seen as a statue.
Hence, why I disagree with this:
The same story also featured an unknown conceptual place within the Speed Force called the "Garden of Shadows" or "Gallery of Moments",
beyond the Source Wall
Firstly, non of the scans provided really prove that the Garden exists beyond the Source Wall, that is something that is just directly disproved by this scan here, which refers to the Garden as
the slowest possible vibration within the Universe, and so, it is a vibratory realm, something that all realms within the Multiverse share:
But again in my opinion, the Garden, all things considered, isn't even something that extends beyond a single Universe, it's status as the lowest frequency of vibration within the Universe just makes it a sort-of conceptual form of a Universe without space or time. We directly see things that reference that idea as
Wally sees Irey as a fixed statue within the Garden, implying that the Garden is the Universe, just at a conceptual, still level.
Obviously, I am not saying that a single world within the Orrery of Worlds is
1-A, since this isn't the world itself per se, its the world stripped to no-space and no-time.
As for the Arc-Angles, I find it pretty hard that they're
1-A, I have seen people claim them to have created the Garden, but I'm not really sure where that comes from. In addition to that, they are described as
geometrical,
dimensional, are located in
curved space, and their name is quite literally a mixture of an arc and an angle, all of which are clearly pretty spatio-geometrical features, so I am not sure how that works with them being
1-A.
On the bright side, I do think the Garden (as well as anything bound by either the Speed Force and the Still Force) would scale below the Sixth Dimension/Time at a bare minimum because of the aforesaid reasons.
we should also not rush this thread and wait until the last issue drops next week, since the Flash will likely go outside the Source Wall and it will probably show some interesting stuff about the cosmology.