The nature of Hyperspace ??

[Widdekind]

The curvature of mass-free space-time is allot like the "compensating curvatures" (my words) of a soap film, drawn out between two circular hoops, held up in the air (Wheeler. Gravitation & Spacetime).

 

 

Now, for a soap film to exist in space, the soapy water must be different from the medium in which it is immersed — to wit, whilst one could create soap films in the air or in a vacuum, one could not do so "under (soapy-)water". Arguing naively from the analogy, then, the "film" of space-time must be distinctly different from the "medium" of Hyperspace.

 

Moreover, the shapes of soap films are created by the counter-balancing of Surface Tension forces threading thru the films. Arguing naively from the analogy, then, the "film" of space-time may have "hyper-surface tensions", which operate along the "surface skin" of space-time.

 

Furthermore, spherical soap-bubbles' "self-shrinking" surface-tensions will cause them to collapse, unless they contain a pressure producing gas (like air). Arguing naively from the analogy, then, (interior) Hyperspace probably produces some sort of "hyper-pressure" which "balloons space outward".

 

Finally, soap films (or bubbles) attract other soap films (or bubbles). When they come in contact, they can "pop together", to rejoin up into a single film (or bubble). This seemingly suggests the (super-speculative) possibility, of transporting matter, thru Hyperspace, inside of "pinched off bubbles" of space. If such a "space bubble", housing a fleet of spaceships (say), were to "pop on" to standard space, from (exterior) Hyperspace, it would surely cause a (brief?) artificial gravity well disturbance, pulling towards the point of contact, before the bubble "opened out", depositing the space-fleet at its destination (a Ray-Traced computer simulation of this would perhaps be pretty impressive, if only for imagination's sake):

 

 

 

Using "singularity mines", wherein compressed collapsing matter makes "upward spiking" (artificial) Gravity Wells, one could (conceivably) "skewer" an inbound foe's fleet-housing "hyper-bubble", thereby "popping it open" into the mine's collapsing singularity:

 

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"Wierd World" super-speculative suggestion:

 

If you can "pinch off" pieces of space fabric, forming "hyper-bubbles", then you could (conceivably) "pinch off" whole star systems, isolating or quarantining whole worlds as inescapable "prison planets", completely cut off from the rest of spacetime.

 

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Arguing from the reciprocity of Matter & Spacetime, if Spacetime can exist w/o Matter... then can Matter exist w/o Spacetime ??

Edited April 8, 2010 by Widdekind

[Widdekind]

"Burdened" Spacetime "sinks down", creating "Net Hyper-Force", which pulls masses together thru Space, and "downwards" thru Hyperspace

 

Fig. 1 --

"Burdened"

Spacetime

is "depressed downwards" through

Hyperspace

dimension

 

Fig. 2 --

In isolation, "

Hyperspace Tensions

" in

Spacetime

surrounding the star "cancel out", leaving said star "hanging in

Hyperspace

" w/o motion. But, the "burdened"

Spacetime

, by being "depressed downwards", now yields a "

Net Hyper-(Tension-)Force

", tugging the stars towards each other thru standard space, whilst allowing them to "sag", "down deeper", into

Hyperspace

.

 

Fig. 3 --

Merged star "hangs down deeper" into

Hyperspace

, due to "downwards

Hyper-Acceleration

", from imbalanced

Hyper-Tension-Forces

.

[Widdekind]

Spacetime isn't "rubber", but "barely bendable armor plate"

 

Consider the Curvature, imposed into spacetime, by the Earth. The Schwarzschild Radius of the Earth is roughly 1 cm. And, as a (rather) rough estimate, of the depth of the "dimple", in the fabric of spacetime, caused by the Earth, we can calculate a figure from Flamm's Paraboloid:

 

[math]w \approx 2 R_{S} \sqrt{\frac{r}{R_{S}}}[/math]

 

[math]w(R_{\oplus}) \approx 20 m[/math]

 

 

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Imagine building a bridge, whose span was nearly 13,000 km (the diameter of the Earth), and which "sagged" solely 20 meters (!!). That's not like "rubber"... but "high tensile neutronium armor plate" (as it were).

 

CONCLUSION: Curvature causes Gravity. Gravity is the weakest, of the Four Fundamental Forces, b/c of the strength of spacetime. If spacetime really was rubber-like, then matter could cause much greater curvatures -- even a bowling ball would create considerable curvature -- and Gravity would be much much stronger than seen.