Hyperspace?

[jonarizmendi]

I have heard in sci fi TV shows about Hyperspace, and someone told me it actually exists...can anyone confirm this? and if it does exist, what is it?? thanks!

[fo3nix]

It may exist, it may not. It's just one theory in theoretical physics about the nature of our universe.

There's a good book with Hyperspace as its title, by Michio Kaku.

Essentially, we currently think we live in a universe with 3 spatial dimensions. That is, we can move up and down, left and right, as well as forwards and backwards. Any other movement, like moving diagonally, is just a mixture of one of these three movements. A hyperspace theory is one in which there are more than 3 spatial dimensions.

Wikipedia has some interesting articles on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_%28sci ence_fiction%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_theory

[Touareg-8]

I know in america they have developed an aircraft with a pulse engine, i have no idea what it does lol

[fo3nix]

Well, it's nothing to do with hyperspace ;)

[heathfield]

The idea of 'hyperspace', and the word itself, was invented by a science fiction writer back in the 1940s. Just who first used it is the subject of some argument, but by the 1950s, readers were fully aware of the meaning.
Since nothing can travel faster than light, it could take many lifetimes to travel through the vast distances in space. You can see that this would be a problem for our hero, if he had to race to another solar system to right wrongs. So 'hyperspace' was invented. It makes use of travel through another imaginary dimension, in which these distances shrink, so that journeys last only days, or even minutes.

These days, people talk about 'wormholes'. This is much the same thing, where it is suggested that in another dimension two distantly-separated points in the universe become co-incident, and so the travel time between them would be instant. Unlike the imaginary 'hyperspace', 'wormholes' do exist in theory, and some serious people are doing some serious research on them.

[jonarizmendi]

I have seen in Babylon 5 that they "jump into Hyperspace" to travel REALLY long distances, but I keep hearing Hyperspace DOES exist, we just don't know exactly what it is...I mean, whether we know what it means or not, does manking acknowledge its existence???

[fo3nix]

Hyperspace in science fiction is very different from hyperspace in science.

It's only a theoretical idea in science. It's some amazing way to travel vast distances to escape The Empire in science fiction.