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Posted by: grey101
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For one, no where in the book does it say that. There is no definition other then "other spaces, other realities" for any of the alternate planes Foreunners explored.
Page 100 of Cryptum.
Second, there is a difference between universes and dimension you don't seem to realize.
Dimension is like the third dimension we live on, time being the 4th and so on up to at least 11. An alternate dimension would be inconceivable to humans or any other 3D creature.
Another universe is what slipspace is, as are the other ones. It doesn't operate like our universe and is directly parallel our own, but not another dimension entirely. If it was, humans, being mere 3D creatures, shouldn't be able to cross it without dire consequences.
Contact Harvest refers to slipspace as another dimension.
Third, there is nothing outside the galaxy. A photon only realm such as the Glow can't exist in between galaxies. It'd be glowing bright, not pitch black.
Everything right there, unless I somehow missed something, was assumption.
I'm glad you have an absolute definition of the Halo universe with real world physics, unfortunately it's not applicable to fiction.
Just read 100. It does not say they are the same thing. It says
(pg 100)
"We have explored other realities, other spaces--Slipspace, denial of locale, shunspace, trick geodetics, natal void, the photon only realm called the Glow.
(101)
"But the vastness between suns is great and mysterious in a very different way"
He's referring to the simplicity of traveling between stars compared to the mysteries of the other realms, not defining the realms. He says interstellar space is indeed mysterious in its own ways simply because they do not travel through them but past them.
I'm glad you have an absolute definition of the Halo universe with real world physics, unfortunately it's not applicable to fiction
wat.
Halo uses real world physics. In Halo 3, did you ever see the area around the Ark glowing so bright it was impossible to look at?
I......don't see your point.
@grey101
can I have a page number where it says this?
His point is not everything can be explained for a fictional races eons ahead of us by using our current limited knowledge and awareness.
I Don't have a number becuase i don't have the book (it's just halopedia in hardback) but i do remember talking about it in this thread
opog says it in the 11th post and it appears alot during the thread.
I have seen scans but i dont have the book.
Think about it logically. They would not have survived if it was just the Orion Arm; Halo would have killed them all. Besides, I just read the entire Forerunner chapter in the book, and I don't see mention of the Orion Arm.
And he's referring too the intergalactic space, not the Forerunner technology. At least that's what I'm referring too. Assuming he and I are on the same page, he claims the space between galaxies is the photon real called the Glow. First off, it never says that in the book; actually the opposite. Second, the space between galaxies is pitch black, not glowing bright.