Although irregularities within the quantum foam are commonplace, it is extremely rare for these distortions to manifest themselves on a macroscopic level. When this occurs, the normal rules that govern the universe are broken. The inconceivable happens. The unexplained permeates the fabric of predictable reality. A tangent of this nature is capable of undoing reality. Much in the way matter and antimatter are fundamentally identical, yet will annihilate each other upon contact.

A tangent universe is volatile to existence as we know it. The abnormality must be corrected before any major deformation of the prime universe emerges.