![]() ![]() One trademark and unique trait of Illuminations is its highly impenetrable defense. In truth, aside from such forms, Rimbaud can alter his hyperspace's ranges accordingly, capable of generating hyperspace massive enough to cover an entire shipyard higher than its roof. Initially, the ability had been shown to take the form of small, cubic hyperspaces that can restrain individuals among other purposes. Illuminations allows Rimbaud to create a hyperspace, which is a completely isolated sphere outside the normal space that he has full control over and has different dimensions from the physical world. ![]() If, however, we found a way to interact with these dimensions, we might be able to access the properties that make up an invisible hyperspace that is simply another layer of the universe.Rimbaud enclosing the area with his ability. ![]() The manifolds that make up these dimensions are apparently less than 10^-33 centimeters across, so obviously they are smaller than what our most powerful microscopes can see. The four dimensions we know actually conceal six other dimensions that are curled up. An offshoot of string theory, called superstring theory (think: Lutheranism), suggests that there could be 10 dimensions because of the way strings warp time and space around themselves. That sounds like bullshit, but it isn’t, depending on how you feel about string theory, the idea that the physical world is made up of a framework of tiny, one-dimension string particles that shape spacetime and interact with one-another to form what we might call existence. These higher dimensions could make it possible for hyperspace to exist. Some physicists, after all, believe there are several more dimensions past the four we know of. There are some theories of hyperspace that are tied to speculative yet supported science. Maybe the physics of hyperspace work differently such that a ship’s propulsion has compounded effects. Perhaps in the fourth dimension, time is indiscreet and jumps between points in such as way that it allows a ship to achieve movement without velocity. Hyperspace seems to allow ships to foreshorten the shortest distance between A and B. What if you weren’t limited to 4D spacetime? The idea of hyperspace is based on the presumption that there is a separate region of spacetime beyond the limits of four dimensions. Nothing moves quite at the speed of light other than, well, light. But the larger questions remains, what is hyperspace? How does it physically operate? And is hyperspace something that could be real? In the normal four dimensions that make up spacetime as we know it, the shortest path between two points is a straight line, and the fastest way to travel across that distance is to move at the speed of light. Exactly what that means, presumably varies from fictional universe to fictional universe - there aren’t a lot of details given. Hyperspace is accessible to ships that have hyperdrives. ![]() This blurred line visual shorthand for interstellar travel is not science fact, but it isn’t purely science fiction either. But one of the genre’s classic tropes for making interstellar travel possible is worth a second look: hyperspace. Some writers favor wormholes, some filmmakers go in for time dilation, some graphic novelists use warp drives that folds space time up - the list of possibilities, unencumbered by physics, are endless. The science fiction canon is thick with ideas about how to make faster-than-light travel possible. ![]()
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