Fiction talk:Spatial anomaly

Suggestions
After my last discussion with Ghelae at the beginning of the week I've have some suggestions, both new and some revisiting old ideas.


 * Altered spaces - places of different dimension and particle arrangements
 * False Vacuum bubbles - We concluded long ago that there would be no way to contain a false vacuum, even one sheaved in a domain wall would simply cause the domain wall to expand with it. However, we never concluded they cannot exist in some local (and expanding) region of the SporeWikiverse.  They could be very rare, forming every few billion light years, far enough for the universe's expansion to prevent the [eventual] demise of the Sporewikiverse.  Or, they could very common, happening nearly everywhere in spacetime, but with the multiverse being the fiction universe's saving grace:  observers simply exist in states that have not decayed, and in a timeless continuum of states [multiverse] there must always be some, with time emerging from those states that appear to have causal structure from within.  Opportunities for science fiction could include investigations of distant vacuum bubbles; some horrible (potentially magical) change to the multiverse; or controversy over hyperspatial technologies powerful enough to trigger decay.
 * Warp vacua - I never really explained how the Delpha Coalition of Planets' devastating warp vacua worked, it is like a false vacuum in that constants may be altered within but without changing the vacuum. Maybe they are just really hot (at the particle scale) bubbles of glasma housed in warp bubbles, but I do not know if they can be hot enough to do without triggering bubble nucleation.  However they work, they could form naturally and such be listed on the page.
 * Null space - Taking the analogy of a "perfect mirror" from the metric shield, this is the inverse, a region that perfectly absorbs electromagnetic and gravitational fields. There may be some reasons in gravitational field equations that make this impossible, but that would probably be so for perfect mirrors in spacetime.
 * Dilation / Shrink space - In a very old story, the DCP use an precursor artifact against the Cognatus that slows them to near standstill, yet without gravitational effects or at velocities close to the speed of light. Ghelae offered an explanation I cannot remember.  Another solution might be to have the speed of light altered inside the dilated space, changing the distances inside the region from an external frame of reference.


 * Chaotic space
 * Subspace storms - Perhaps hypermatter can leak into realspace under some conditions, causing a violent decay of particles that form a plasma. However, it also creates a self-repeating complication of sub-microscopic wormholes that open and collapse with enough energy to release more hypermatter, until the source in hyperspaces diminishes or the plasma in realspace thins out.  Subspace storms could irradiate starship crews and potentially drift through planets.  They might even be attracted to warp coils and hyperdrives.  They would essentially be like most anomalies in Star Trek, bright and dense clouds that ensnare the Enterprise.
 * Amorphous space - In Causal Dynamical Triangulation and Quantum Graphity, spacetime's geometry is emergent from a network of smaller discrete chunks (or approximately) meshed like a network of connections.  In CDT, the number of possible connections imply a number of free parameters.  Of those explored, descriptions of space has been computed, they are in fact a sort of pre-geomtry because they describe an amorphous spaces that are either completely disconneced or where everything is connected to everything-else.  In Quantum Graphity extremely high temperatures could change the state of spacetime back to an amorphous structure, and it is implied they could still exist if there are topological defects.  These 'spaces' really are chaotic, any flow of information would completely lack causal structure.  It is also possible that the multiverse consists mostly of chaotic space like a great cosmic jumble pile of quantum states, with only some of them implying a causal connection..  But of course only observers could exist in those causally implied shapes.


 * Other
 * Dark-energy stars - The Junction have technology based on this. The problem here is whether we could concieve of them coexisting with the classic black hole model.
 * Non-orientable wormhole metrics - Ought to be added on the description for wormholes.
 * Wormhole firewalls - The DCP's wormhole buster creates a high energy and incredibly volatile region of space at the event horizon where quantum entanglement gets broken.