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So currently the Ben 10 cosmology is accepted to be 2-B, I however have proof for infinitely above baseline 2-A. This is because Ben 10 has both infinite timelines and infinite dimensions and I will be going over the reasons why exactly.
Infinite timelines: Maltruant (19:19) has control over the infinite time stream. This goes hand-in-hand with Professor Paradox stating that the timelines branch off ad-infinitum. Now I will mathematically proof that this means there are infinite timelines:
Assume that there are a finite amount of timelines. The largest number of timelines (at the end of time) is given by 2^t where t is the number for the amount of time that passes since 2006 (when the timelines started branching). Now add t by 1 (applicable due to Maltruant's statement), this gives us 2^(t+1) amount of timelines. Since 2^(t+1) is bigger than 2^t, this contradicts 2^t being the largest number of timelines, hence our proposition "there are a finite amount of timelines" is false. Thus there are an infinite amount of timelines. Another easy way to see this is by making a bijection between t and 2^t, since the former set it infinite, so is the latter because sets where a bijection can be made have the same amount of elements.
Infinite dimensions: Ben 10 and Generator Rex had a crossover that is confirmed to be cano by WOG (there is another statement by Matt Wayne saying it doesn't affect Ben 10 canon but that just means that the crossover has no influence on the story of Ben 10, not that the crossover didn't happen, btw that statement is old (2011) and Shocksquatch, who debuted in the crossover, directly influences Ben 10 in Omniverse so in the worst case it's just not true). Rex is also affected by the crossover since the Bug Jar is still destroyed in the season finale.
Now this is important because Doctor Holiday states that there are infinite dimensions, now how credible is Doctor Holiday on this? She has been called smart by Rex's brother Caesar Salazar, who is an extraordinary genius with supergenius feats (albeit not consistent enough) as established in this thread. She also almost found a cure for the nanite event which infected the entire earth together with a group of scientists. She was disappointed by Rex getting 97% on a trigonometry test which his classmates said was incredibly hard and was worried about how such a bad grade would reflect on her. She was one of the only people awake during an epidemic in North-America that put everyone infected (that was not an EVO) in a coma and was able to make a scanner to track patient zero by constantly putting herself under electric shocks to keep herself awake. She also was able to study Breach while Rex was trapped inside her pocket dimension (mostly by shooting drones at her) and is very knowledgeable on all sorts of EVO's. She also managed to finish a cure for EVO's (she had to put in the final work on someone else's design) in minutes and managed to cure her sister that way. In other words making a statement about infinite dimensions isn't really that big of a deal for her, despite her not believing in alternate dimensions in the beginning of the crossover, but once she was convinced that they were real she had a little time to theorize about it and draw a conclusion. It would also be out of character for her to be over-exaggerating for some reason.
This can also be backed up by this WOG claiming the multiverse is infinite and while yes the person in question was pushy and DJW might not be the most reliable person, the only thing we are using here is the normal question part about the size of the omniverse/multiverse.
Now to combine infinite timelines with infinite dimensions: WOG says that Ben 10 and Generator Rex are not alternate timelines of each other (this may get retconned later in the Reboot however), which makes sense since the Null Void can't be used to connect alternate timelines because that would make no sense (Kevin or Vilgax would end up in the wrong timeline when escaping the Null Void for instance) and it stands to reason that every dimension also has an infinite branching timestream since it would be weird for Charmcaster for instance to only be a villain of 10-year old Ben and then when the timeline branches Ben 23 never sees her again since she is in Ledgerdomain which doesn't branch. The same could be said about Mad Ben and Charmcaster who only branches in Ben 10 Omniverse and no branching of alternate dimensions would also imply that only one Ben fought Dagon (who lives/was trapped in a parallel dimension and is thus universe-sized) and that the Forever Knights in all other timelines have no purpose. That said it's very weird for the entire multiverse to be Ben-centric since the branching only starts when Ben gets the Omnitrix, but on the other hand it's already weird the way it is right now so I doubt it matters.
About the Chrono Navigator and Alien X: These are Professor Paradox' quotes regarding the capabilities of his Chrono Navigator:
"Eon wants nothing less than absolute power over everything all timelines, all alternate realities everything."
"Yes, but in anyone else's hands but mine it could cause irreparable damage to the time-stream or destroy all of time and causality itself"
"Stop this now or all of existence will be destroyed!"
So all of time, causality, all timelines and all alternate realities will be destroyed, in short all of existence.
One of the main concerns regarding the Chrono Navigator is that it does not instantly destroy the multiverse but if the cosmology is double infinite then time is completely irrelevant and we already agreed that Alien X can erase all of existence (it makes sense for Servantis to know about how Ben 10 cosmology works) so Alien X would scale to this, we can work out the details later and while it can be discussed in this thread, it shouldn't be the main focus.
2-A via Holiday's statement:
Agrees: Zamasu Chan, Ahsan jr, StrymULTRA, The 2nd Existential Seed
Disagrees: ProfessorKukui4Life, Ionliosite, Matthew Schroeder (?)
Neutral:
Infinite timelines: Maltruant (19:19) has control over the infinite time stream. This goes hand-in-hand with Professor Paradox stating that the timelines branch off ad-infinitum. Now I will mathematically proof that this means there are infinite timelines:
Assume that there are a finite amount of timelines. The largest number of timelines (at the end of time) is given by 2^t where t is the number for the amount of time that passes since 2006 (when the timelines started branching). Now add t by 1 (applicable due to Maltruant's statement), this gives us 2^(t+1) amount of timelines. Since 2^(t+1) is bigger than 2^t, this contradicts 2^t being the largest number of timelines, hence our proposition "there are a finite amount of timelines" is false. Thus there are an infinite amount of timelines. Another easy way to see this is by making a bijection between t and 2^t, since the former set it infinite, so is the latter because sets where a bijection can be made have the same amount of elements.
Infinite dimensions: Ben 10 and Generator Rex had a crossover that is confirmed to be cano by WOG (there is another statement by Matt Wayne saying it doesn't affect Ben 10 canon but that just means that the crossover has no influence on the story of Ben 10, not that the crossover didn't happen, btw that statement is old (2011) and Shocksquatch, who debuted in the crossover, directly influences Ben 10 in Omniverse so in the worst case it's just not true). Rex is also affected by the crossover since the Bug Jar is still destroyed in the season finale.
Now this is important because Doctor Holiday states that there are infinite dimensions, now how credible is Doctor Holiday on this? She has been called smart by Rex's brother Caesar Salazar, who is an extraordinary genius with supergenius feats (albeit not consistent enough) as established in this thread. She also almost found a cure for the nanite event which infected the entire earth together with a group of scientists. She was disappointed by Rex getting 97% on a trigonometry test which his classmates said was incredibly hard and was worried about how such a bad grade would reflect on her. She was one of the only people awake during an epidemic in North-America that put everyone infected (that was not an EVO) in a coma and was able to make a scanner to track patient zero by constantly putting herself under electric shocks to keep herself awake. She also was able to study Breach while Rex was trapped inside her pocket dimension (mostly by shooting drones at her) and is very knowledgeable on all sorts of EVO's. She also managed to finish a cure for EVO's (she had to put in the final work on someone else's design) in minutes and managed to cure her sister that way. In other words making a statement about infinite dimensions isn't really that big of a deal for her, despite her not believing in alternate dimensions in the beginning of the crossover, but once she was convinced that they were real she had a little time to theorize about it and draw a conclusion. It would also be out of character for her to be over-exaggerating for some reason.
This can also be backed up by this WOG claiming the multiverse is infinite and while yes the person in question was pushy and DJW might not be the most reliable person, the only thing we are using here is the normal question part about the size of the omniverse/multiverse.
Now to combine infinite timelines with infinite dimensions: WOG says that Ben 10 and Generator Rex are not alternate timelines of each other (this may get retconned later in the Reboot however), which makes sense since the Null Void can't be used to connect alternate timelines because that would make no sense (Kevin or Vilgax would end up in the wrong timeline when escaping the Null Void for instance) and it stands to reason that every dimension also has an infinite branching timestream since it would be weird for Charmcaster for instance to only be a villain of 10-year old Ben and then when the timeline branches Ben 23 never sees her again since she is in Ledgerdomain which doesn't branch. The same could be said about Mad Ben and Charmcaster who only branches in Ben 10 Omniverse and no branching of alternate dimensions would also imply that only one Ben fought Dagon (who lives/was trapped in a parallel dimension and is thus universe-sized) and that the Forever Knights in all other timelines have no purpose. That said it's very weird for the entire multiverse to be Ben-centric since the branching only starts when Ben gets the Omnitrix, but on the other hand it's already weird the way it is right now so I doubt it matters.
About the Chrono Navigator and Alien X: These are Professor Paradox' quotes regarding the capabilities of his Chrono Navigator:
"Eon wants nothing less than absolute power over everything all timelines, all alternate realities everything."
"Yes, but in anyone else's hands but mine it could cause irreparable damage to the time-stream or destroy all of time and causality itself"
"Stop this now or all of existence will be destroyed!"
So all of time, causality, all timelines and all alternate realities will be destroyed, in short all of existence.
One of the main concerns regarding the Chrono Navigator is that it does not instantly destroy the multiverse but if the cosmology is double infinite then time is completely irrelevant and we already agreed that Alien X can erase all of existence (it makes sense for Servantis to know about how Ben 10 cosmology works) so Alien X would scale to this, we can work out the details later and while it can be discussed in this thread, it shouldn't be the main focus.
2-A via Holiday's statement:
Agrees: Zamasu Chan, Ahsan jr, StrymULTRA, The 2nd Existential Seed
Disagrees: ProfessorKukui4Life, Ionliosite, Matthew Schroeder (?)
Neutral: