Wednesday 21 March 2018

Frequencies

"A tracer shell flashed out, drawing a line of fire through Svantovik's boat. Or, rather, through the space where shell and boat coexisted with different frequencies."
-Poul Anderson, "Hunters of the Sky Cave" IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 149-301 AT XVI, p. 275.

Thus, entire universes might coexist not only in different dimensions but also at different frequencies. In DC Comics, a hero with the power of super speed, by changing the frequency of his bodily vibrations, transferred from Earth 1 to Earth 2, thus initiating twenty years of inter-cosmic crossovers until the Crisis in which most of the universes were destroyed while the surviving five were four-dimensionally merged into a revised timeline.

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

In the context of speculations about alternate worlds/universes, this kind of use for "frequency" might be the same as "dimension."

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
No. Two universes with different frequencies could occupy the same three-dimensional space whereas two universes separated by a distance in a fourth spatial dimension would occupy different 3D spaces.
Paul.