A matrix is:
a cavity in which something is formed;
that in which something is embedded;
the bed on which something rests;
a mould;
in mathematics, a rectangular array of quantities or symbols.
"Hyper-" means "excessive" or "more than normal."
Does The Continuum Have A Matrix?
The continuum can certainly be represented by quantities and symbols.
Is it formed or embedded in something?
Does it rest on something?
Is it moulded in something?
If everything that can be represented by only four co-ordinates is part of the continuum, then the matrix in which the continuum is formed, embedded or moulded or on which it rests must have at least five dimensions and a hypermatrix would have more than five?
Patrol agents like Guion study moments in which the continuum seems to be affected by something from outside it:
individuals like Manse Everard and Wandy Tamberly whose world-lines intersect with so many others that they might be causal nexuses;
disturbances whose cause is not in our yet;
any kind of temporal anomaly.
If some FTL spaceships travel through hyperspace, might temporal vehicles travel through hypertime? In Poul Anderson's "Flight to Forever," the time projector travels through a grey void. In Doctor Who, the TARDIS travels through a time vortex where E=MCcubed. Time spent in the void or vortex must be less than the time traversed. Otherwise, there is no time travel.
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