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[[Image:Slip_space_enter.jpg|thumb|Regret's ship entering Slipspace over [[New Mombasa]].]] | [[Image:Slip_space_enter.jpg|thumb|Regret's ship entering Slipspace over [[New Mombasa]].]] | ||
'''Slipstream Space''' ('''Slipspace''' for short), otherwise known as '''Shaw-Fujikawa Space''' by the [[United Nations Space Command]], is a collective term for the seven non-visible infinitesimal quantum dimensions used for faster-than-light travel. Making a transition from one place to another via slipspace is known as a "slip", or | '''Slipstream Space''' ('''Slipspace''' for short), otherwise known as '''Shaw-Fujikawa Space''' by the [[United Nations Space Command]], is a collective term for the seven non-visible infinitesimal quantum dimensions used for faster-than-light travel. Making a transition from one place to another via slipspace is known as a "slip", or "jump". | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
[[Image:Seperatist_fleet_ark.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Elite]] [[Covenant Separatist|Separatist]] [[Fleet]] coming out of Slipspace over the [[Ark]].]] | [[Image:Seperatist_fleet_ark.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Elite]] [[Covenant Separatist|Separatist]] [[Fleet]] coming out of Slipspace over the [[Ark]].]] | ||
Slipspace travel has been the [[UNSC]]'s main way of traveling from planet to planet, and star-system to star-system since its discovery in [[2291]]. Before this technology was discovered by [[Tobias Shaw]] and [[Wallace Fujikawa]], mankind was never able to leave their home star system | Slipspace travel has been the [[UNSC]]'s main way of traveling from planet to planet, and star-system to star-system since its discovery in [[2291]]. Before this technology was discovered by [[Tobias Shaw]] and [[Wallace Fujikawa]], mankind was never able to leave their home star system due to the [[Relativistic Lag|constraints of relativistic theory]], preventing faster-than-light travel. Now the UNSC traverses the galaxy in spacecraft to whole new worlds. The Slipspace drive is considered the most important invention in all of human history. | ||
==Mechanics== | ==Mechanics== | ||
Slipspace is a tangle of intertwined dimensions (estimated to be nine), comparably similar to a wadded up piece of paper, which lie underneath the three conventional spatial dimensions of the universe. Because of this tangle of intertwined dimensions, objects in slipspace often group together in mass transit. There are no ideas on why this occurs, other than brief speculations made in the novels. | Slipspace is a tangle of intertwined dimensions (estimated to be nine), comparably similar to a wadded up piece of paper, which lie underneath the three conventional spatial dimensions of the universe. Because of this tangle of intertwined dimensions, objects in slipspace often group together in mass transit. There are no ideas on why this occurs, other than brief speculations made in the novels. | ||
This new engine allowed ships to tunnel into | This new engine allowed ships to tunnel into slipspace, technically called "Shaw-Fujikawa Space",<ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', page 141</ref> after the scientists who proved its existence. Slipspace is a domain with alternate physical laws, allowing faster-than-light travel without relativistic side-effects (much like hyperspace from the popular Star Wars movies, though ships travel the Shaw/Fujikawa space much slower than hyperspace, as a ship in hyperspace could cross in days or weeks a distance that would take a ship in Shaw/Fujikawa space months or even years). Faster-than-light travel is not instantaneous; "short" jumps routinely take up to two months, and "long" jumps can last six months or more, which is why most UNSC ships have cryo chambers. | ||
[[Image:Covenant Assault Carrier FanArt.jpg|right|thumb|A [[Covenant]] [[Assault Carrier]] opens a Slipspace vortex.]] | [[Image:Covenant Assault Carrier FanArt.jpg|right|thumb|A [[Covenant]] [[Assault Carrier]] opens a Slipspace vortex.]] | ||
Slipspace can be thought of as our detectable universe (which, technically, it is) but with a greater number of dimensions. Our plane of existence is thought to have four dimensions (up-down, front-back, side-to-side and time), but [[Cortana]] states in ''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' that Slipspace is an eleven-dimensional spacetime. Slipspace is currently theorized (in [[2552]]) as a "tangle" of our plane's dimensions, rather like taking the classic "flat sheet" used to represent gravity and crumpling it up into a ball, thereby creating extra dimensions and shorter spaces between points. The slipstream also possesses different laws of physics than our "normal" universe, although some basic ones, such as energy transfer and momentum, remain the same.<ref>''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', pg 55</ref> | Slipspace can be thought of as our detectable universe (which, technically, it is) but with a greater number of dimensions. Our plane of existence is thought to have four dimensions (up-down, front-back, side-to-side and time), but [[Cortana]] states in ''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' that Slipspace is an eleven-dimensional spacetime. Slipspace is currently theorized (in [[2552]]) as a "tangle" of our plane's dimensions, rather like taking the classic "flat sheet" used to represent gravity and crumpling it up into a ball, thereby creating extra dimensions and shorter spaces between points. The slipstream also possesses different laws of physics than our "normal" universe, although some basic ones, such as energy transfer and momentum, remain the same.<ref>''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', pg 55</ref> | ||