Timeline for When does "extra dimensional space" appear?
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| Dec 2, 2015 at 1:09 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | There's some good discussion in the book Time Machines by Paul Nahin about the history of higher-dimensional hyperspace in science fiction, starting on p. 117--a bunch of it is viewable on google books, see p. 120 and onward here. Also, the book Flatland mentioned in Lèse majesté is one of the very first fantasy/sci-fi about higher dimensions, it's available online here. | |
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| Mar 11, 2014 at 16:37 | vote | accept | arivero | ||
| Mar 10, 2014 at 23:30 | comment | added | Wayfaring Stranger | Google ngram for Hyperspace is fascinating: books.google.com/ngrams/… I particularly like this book from 1910: The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained: books.google.com/… | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 23:07 | answer | added | joshbirk | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 22:42 | history | edited | John O |
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| Mar 10, 2014 at 22:41 | comment | added | John O | I'm leaving this open. He's asking particularly about Marvel comics, when a trope of theirs first appeared, and narrows it down to the decade for us. A correct answer will be a specific issue or issues of some arbitrary Marvel title, perhaps with some extra information on how it came to be a general trope of the 1960s. | |
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| Mar 10, 2014 at 22:19 | comment | added | Valorum | I'm unclear what you're asking. Are you after the first stories about external dimensions or after more info about the creation of the multiverse in Marvel Comics; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_(Marvel_Comics) | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 1:26 | comment | added | arivero | @Lèsemajesté Yep, the term seems to be incorrectly used, and this is part of the intrigue: why they use "dimensions" instead of "alternate" or "otherworld"? They enjoy to use a lot of atomic-age vocabulary, alpha-rays etc... why do they consider "dimensions" to be a modern hi tech topic? | |
| Nov 20, 2013 at 1:21 | comment | added | arivero | Ok, Flatland is a good one. I'd said than Lovecraft also uses the term "dimensions" somewhere. Perhaps it is just evolution of the term. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 13:26 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | 17th to 20th every month, in Circini star cluster. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 9:48 | comment | added | John Rennie | I would guess the idea became popular after Einstein's theory of general relativity published in 1916, and widely known in 1918 after Eddington's observations of light bending by the Sun. Although GR does not require more than four dimensions Theodor Kaluza extended GR to introduce the idea of a fifth dimension in 1919. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 9:44 | comment | added | John Rennie | @user14111: I'll see your EE Smith and raise you Flatland 1884! | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 5:38 | comment | added | user14111 | "Thus DuQuesne, not even dreaming what an incredibly inconceivable distance from their galaxy Seaton was to attain; nor what depths of extradimensional space Seaton was to traverse before they were again to stand face to face--cold black eyes staring straight into hard and level eyes of gray."--Edward E. Smith, PhD, The Skylark of Valeron, 1934. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 4:29 | comment | added | Lèse majesté | However, "extradimensional space" in sci-fi could actually refer to two different concepts. The more accurate one is that of hidden dimensions that cannot normally be seen or directly manipulated (e.g. large extra dimension or KK theory in science). Subspace or hyperspace could be interpreted as such an "extradimensional space". But most of the time in soft sci-fi, "dimension" is incorrectly used as a synonym for parallel reality in the context of parallel universe theory or a multiverse. The extradimensional beings in Marvel are such an example. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 4:16 | comment | added | Lèse majesté | The concept of dimensionality has been around at least since the time of Aristotle. And as early as the 15th century mathematicians were playing with the idea of higher dimensions. There are abundant well known references to higher dimensions in 19th literature (e.g. Flatland, the Brothers Karamazov, the Time Machine, etc.). So references to higher dimensions in comics are just a continuation of these works which predate Marvel comics by almost a century. | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 3:30 | comment | added | BESW | Are you looking for the idea of space beyond the three dimensions of our universe, or are you focusing on the specific term "extra-dimensional space"? | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 3:11 | history | asked | arivero | CC BY-SA 3.0 |