Tuesday 10 January 2017

Multi-Dimensional Fiction

OK. After literary hereafters and the English Civil War (see here), there is a third common theme: multidimensional fiction. We recently considered several kinds of dimensions in Poul Anderson's works:

the three spatial dimensions;
the single temporal dimension of an immutable timeline;
the two temporal dimensions of a mutable timeline;
the one or more inter-cosmic dimensions of a multiverse.

Question included:

How many of these dimensions can be incorporated into the 4N-dimensional framework of the Time Patrol universe?

Can there be a megamultiverse?

I raise these questions again because I am currently exploring the ten or eleven dimensions of Alan Moore's Jerusalem. See also here.

4 comments:

David Birr said...

Paul:
"Can there be a megamultiverse?"

To quote Prince Rupert, or PA's version of him, anyway:
"I dare not say what limits God has laid on His creating,"...

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, DAVID!

Dang! Why didn't I think of quoting that? It's such a true, appropriate, and apt answer to Paul's question!

Poul Anderson has written so many quotable and wise things!

Sean

Jim Baerg said...

I suspect Poul had heard about a certain incident about Einstein & Bohr when he put those words into Prince Rupert's mouth.

Einstein liked inventing phrases such as "God does not play dice," "The Lord is subtle but not malicious." On one occasion Bohr answered, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Jim!

Ha! That was amusing. I think I read about that incident somewhere.

Ad astra! Sean