- Lord Xanth
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"If you fight it, you become it."
Introduction
Recently, I came across a thread where this question was brought up: "Is faster than light travel really possible?" I was surprised to see a large amount of Bnet members interested and curious to read what others had to say. The thread got popular, and after much debate and discussion I was convinced: I wanted to start my own threads related to the science of Halo.
So here it is, my first thread on the science of Halo. Your responses will decide whether or not I continue posting these threads on this forum. Your feedback would defiantly be appreciated.
(Feel free to post your own theories, personal opinions, or ideas in this thread. Let me read what you have to say!)
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Get out a sheet of paper, and a pencil. If you don't have paper near you, feel free to use your imagination. Now, for those of you with paper, draw a stick figure smack dab in the middle of your sheet. Imagine that this character is real, and exists within this two-dimensional world you have created. How would he perceive his world? What would he see? Draw another character next to your first. For reference purposes, label character one "A" and character two "B". Feel free to give them names, if you're creative.
Character A would see character B as a line. Because he exists in a two dimensional world (Length x Width), the only thing these "flatlanders" would perceive is a line. There is no height in the second dimension. However, you can see the full structure of their features in your world, the third dimension: Their arms, legs, eyes (If you drew them one); People in a higher dimension can view the lower dimensions in greater elegance and beauty.
"But hold on! What do dimensions have to do with teleporters, or Halo?"
In the Halo series, teleporters are used to transfer one entity from a certain point to another, almost in an instant. To a player watching someone walk through a teleporter, it appears as if they completely vanished, and reappeared somewhere else. It almost seems impossible that you can take someone, and transfer them far away in an instant. However, this isn't necessarily true.
Refer back to your sheet of paper now. Imagine that character A is being sent to prison. Draw a circle around character A. This circle will represent the prison cell. To the two dimensional character, the circle is impossible to escape. It seems impossible that they can break through an impenetrable line. Pretend that character B is visiting character A in jail: This is where your imagination comes in.
Pretend that we could pick character A up, and place him out of the jail. Character A would probably be startled, as he is magically taken away from his two dimensional world and then replaced back outside the jail cell, without even knowing what happened. To character B, it would appear as if character A magically vanished and reappeared outside the jail wall.
You just preformed an example of how higher dimensions can be used to teleport entities from one position to another. When you "picked up" character A, you took him into the third dimension. To a "Flatlander", or someone of the second dimension, there is no such thing as height. The second dimension only consists of length and width. When you picked character A up, you introduced him to height, and teleported him outside the jail cell walls.
This same principle can now be applied to us, or people of the third dimension. Ever seen the movie Jumper? This movie shows the potential of moving into higher dimensions.
If humans could travel into the fourth spatial dimension, they would have the ability to teleport.
This is the concept I've been building at. Now we focus our attention to Halo. In Halo, teleporters are these dimensional portals that can transfer an entity from one position of space to another. In order for a teleporter to exist, you would need to have two wormholes that connect and bring you through the fourth dimension. Only through this can teleporters be a reality.
However, there is a grim reality facing at us: The amount of energy required to crumple space-time like this and have access to a higher dimension would require the same amount of energy triggered during the big bang. Now of course, I'm speaking theoretically here, but the potential for teleporters to exist is still there.
The only true way for teleporters in Halo to exist is to have some sort of technology far more exceeding then that of ours within the teleportation device itself. This device would have to rip open a wormhole and have another device that can interface with the first and link the two portals together. Only through higher dimensions can a teleporter actually exist.
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Thank you for reading, and please send feedback / Your own theories!