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RE: Theorys on the 5th dimension

Welcome, little ray!

We have discussed wormholes and hyperspace travel before in these forums, you might want to look around for it.

I usually use a simple analogy, which reduces 3D space to 2D (it usually helps to take away a dimension to simplify stuff): Imagine not several sheets of paper, but one single sheet. With a pencil, draw a point near the bottom of the page (label it "A"), and another at the top of the page (label it "B"). Now imagine these are two points in space. A spaceship travelling from A to B in "normal" space-time must cross the paper.

Now fold the paper, so that A and B are on each side of the folded paper, but exactly opposite each other. Punch a hole in the paper with your pencil. This is a wormhole. By travelling through it, you can move from A to B without any passage of time, and without having to traverse the vast amount of space between the points. It is equally simple to move from A to B as it is to go from B to A.

I'm not saying this is _doable_ - but it is a neat way to understand how wormholes connect two points in space which are seemingly very far from each other.

As for how to travel in hyperspace, I'll let that rest for now (it is past midnight for me over here in Norway).

All the best,
Tormod


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