Everything possible depends on mathematics. The concrete reality of "everything possible", we can call "the multiverse".
The multiverse is utterly mindless and chaotic. The Near Eastern imagination could explain it only through the metaphor of a stormy ocean. It is, in that famed Semitic rhyme, Tohu ve-Bohu.
Our universe on the other hand is not chaotic. It has a geometry: three spatial dimensions of no particular direction, and one further dimension which goes in one direction. By that alone, anything in our universe can instinctively grasp concepts like "cause and effect".
Our universe also follows rules of physics. Relevant to geometry: you can't blip from one spot to another spot, without taking time, that time being constrained by the speed of light. In effect the speed of light is the ratio of distance over time.
To bend these rules of our universe may or may not be possible through the means we own within this universe. But if we do that, we're leaving the universe. We're entering what may well be chaos. Pending some revelation from some multiversal alien, it near-certainly is chaos, given that chaos is uncountable and we're not. And I'd not be quick to trust that alien, either.
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