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[[File:Covenant_Assault_Carrier_FanArt.jpg|thumb|A [[Covenant assault carrier]] opens a slipspace vortex.]] | [[File:Covenant_Assault_Carrier_FanArt.jpg|thumb|A [[Covenant assault carrier]] opens a slipspace vortex.]] | ||
Slipspace is a tangle of intertwined spatial dimensions, comparably similar to a wadded up piece of paper, which lie underneath the | Slipspace is a tangle of intertwined spatial dimensions, comparably similar to a wadded up piece of paper, which lie underneath the four conventional spatial dimensions of the universe; 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. Slipspace can be thought of as the 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 slipspace is an eleven-dimensional spacetime.<ref name="eleven"/> | ||
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''', ''page 55''</ref> Due to the different laws of physics in the slipstream, times, masses, positions or velocities in slipspace are impossible to accurately measure based on the standards of normal space.<ref name="tfor136"/> | 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''', ''page 55''</ref> Due to the different laws of physics in the slipstream, times, masses, positions or velocities in slipspace are impossible to accurately measure based on the standards of normal space.<ref name="tfor136"/> | ||