When Lavos burrows into his "pocket dimension" (just a separate dimension from Crono's), he is breaking from 4D space into 5D space. If we think of dimensions this way, then Lavos' non-emergence in 1999 AD when killed in 12,000 BC is no longer a paradox because dimensional travel is not equivalent to time travel the two kinds of travel are along separate and different axes! You see, all of time, in 5D space, is condensed into a single point (each point then becoming a dimension with its own personal timeline). Time in one dimension is free to run at a rate inequal to the rate of time in any surrounding dimensions. The two dimensions need not have the same mass, volume, energy. Much in this same way, two dimensions are only related by their offset from each other nothing else needs to be equal. This offset is the only relationship between spacial points. In 2D space, two points are referenced by their relation to each other and their surrounding space. The reason for this is that two dimensions need not be equal. Note that I have purposefully offset the two lines from each other. This other axis will represent all of the possible combinations of time and space parallel to each other. If we want more space to exist, we have to have room for it, and so to account for travel in 5 directions (length, width, depth, time, AND dimension), we would need to create a 5D space by adding another axis. This concept applies to dimensional travel. If I want to move any other way, however, I can't simply explain that this second point exists on a "pocket axis" that somehow inhabits the same axis but not I have to create another axis to account for this difference in movement, and thus I create 2D space. The very concept of a "pocket dimension", however, is flawed! You see, we can represent movement along a single axis as a line I can move from a point at offset 1 to a point at offset 12 on a line easily. We assume that Lavos creates a "pocket dimension" when he arrives on Earth in 65M BC. Chrono Compendium has explored all of the mechanics of travel up until (and including) the 4th dimension. Any movement parallel to the Omega axis, however, represents a movement along the 4th dimension (time). All of the transformations from our 3D space are preserved they all operate exactly the same. This axis, Omega, will represent a 4D space (length, width, depth, and time).Įach point along axis Omega represents another 3D space. These three axes represent three dimensions of planar movement. As I'm sure you all understand so far, this is like jumping in place and is not a protected act all transformations here are basic 3D planar movements. Movement between points B - B' and A - A', however, represent 3D transformations. Movement between points A, B, and C are preserved as-is from our 2D plane. This is in line with everything we know about spacial movement. Note that in order to move between points B and C, you only move along one axis, while moving from either B or C to point A results in movement along 2 axes. I think we're simply applying theories of time travel (time bastard and TTI) to dimensional travel mistakenly. After reading up on the "paradox" of Lavos' shell and his 1999 AD emergence / 12,000 BC demise, I have come to the conclusion that there is no paradox.
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