Quote:a 12+D entityA minor digression here, just for the sake of verisimilitude -- some months back I came across a video about cosmology on YouTube that said pretty much outright -- with some very elegant graphic visualizations -- that 11 or 12 dimensions (I can't remember which now), is the maximum dimensionality possible in current cosmological schemes, much in the same way that c is the maximum speed in a 4D-spacetime.
That said, I like the idea that handwavium is actually the local expression of an N-dimensional something; assuming you don't mean "entity" in the sense of "living creature", that is. I've been musing on the idea that it was actually part of an extraterrestrial "emergency kit", but there's something definitely appealing about the idea that it spans dimensions all by itself. And won't that make Centrum and Infinity crap their pants...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.