Hyperverse

The hyperverse is a term used to describe hyperspace and hypertime. Its name is derived from the word universe with the intent to infer a plane of existence that encompasses all dimensions, which individually are mistaken for the universe. Because the term universe is meant to describe the whole of the natural world, the area which had previously been thought to be the whole of existence is now known as a dimension or plane of hyperspace, while the universe is now seen as the hyperverse. Some scientists and philosophers believe that the concept of the hyperverse is likely to simply be another facet of yet another plane of existence, and so the term universe still applies to the concept of the tonality of the natural world.

Knowledge of the hyperverse leads the cutting edge of science and technology for humans, Arkons, and Kiasans.

Dimensional Exchange
Dimensional exchange is the field of transferring matter and energy across the hyperverse from one dimension to another. This is extremely difficult and often has many strange effects that if not adjusted for can cause many problems.

Time Dilation
Time dilation is caused by dimensions having nonequivalent proportions in relation to other dimensions. Though two dimensions may be almost identical in relation to each other, their relation in hyperspace is not always equal. As a dimension stretches across hypertime, some points are closer and others are further away. When matter and energy are transferred into another dimension at one point in hyperspace, it is also deposited at a point in hypertime. If the two dimensions reconnect at a later time in one dimension, the relative time passed in the other dimension can very greatly if its hyperspace relationships are not even.

To entities within a dimension, this effect can manifest itself as one dimension seeming to go slower of faster than another. This is not to say that a traveler to another dimension would perceive it new location to be moving faster or slower while in it, but instead that if the traveler were to return to its original dimension, time may not have passed very much at all or may have passed very fast.

This occurs frequently between the Sol dimension and the Liuhath dimension. A good example of this dialation occured between the first U.C. probe sent to Arkos and the second probe. Due to time dialation, microbes that journied with the first probe were stranded on Arkos for millions of years and evolved drasticly before the next probe arrived, eventually developing into botah. In the Sol dimension, this stretch of time was experienced in only a few years.