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Posted by: OfTheBloodguard
Posted by: tsassi2
This is not very good theory but anyway. What we know is that it's in slipspace. It's in some location of slipspace but where? Where isn't an accurate question as there is no certain point in slipspace or technically there is but you can't use three dimensional coordinates. For example it can't be in point (324,835,-628) because those are three dimensional but if we add few numbers there (324,835,-628,955,-1,-65,99,117,-736,28). That makes ten spatial dimensions. If it was in those coordinates and someone flew there, there would be a giant sphere. Of course it's not as simple as that as humanity don't really know how to navigate in slipspace.
That's why I recommend asking Forerunners. They know more than I do.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the 4th dimension alone uses numbers too large for the human mind to comprehend. It might not be that simple.
If we go really technical we can't really talk about anything higher than three dimensional in normal sense. We already know that normal laws of physics don't apply in slipspace. After all, we are just beings living in a three dimensional universe (four if we count time).
We would of course need bigger numbers as the volume of an object wouldn't anymore be x,y,z multiplied by eachother but x,y,z,w multiplied by eachother. Example:
We have a 3D object which has a volume of 34x64x82=178,432.
Then we have a 4D object with volume of 34x64x82x53=9,456,896.
Then if we take a 10D object it has a volume of 34x64x82x53x17x77x26x45x39x80=22,029,433,814,868,480
That object is relatively small in size as none of it's dimensions is longer than 82. We can't really talk about volume as volume only has three dimensions. Using metric system would a real pain in the ass as it would multiply by ten million when going down in the system.
Example of what I mean:
10D object with "volume" of 1 kilometer would go like this
1 km^10
=10,000,000 hm^10
=100,000,000,000,000 dam^10
=1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 m^10
=10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 dm^10
=100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 cm^10
=1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 mm^10
and so on...
In shorter terms: Yes, more dimensions means dealing with larger numbers.