prespace
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]prespace (not comparable)
- (science fiction) Of a civilization: having yet to develop space travel.
- 2016, Evan Currie, Warrior King, Seattle, O.R.: 47North, →ISBN, page 233:
- "No way to tell now," Miram admitted. "Lots of space junk around the second planet, though. Could be native, an example of a prespace culture making the transition, but the debris could also be the results of a mining operation or something else I have no frame of reference for."
Noun
[edit]prespace (plural prespaces)
- Any of various theoretical states of physical existence that precede or underlie three-dimensional space.
- 1994, Daniel Athearn, Scientific Nihilism: On the Loss and Recovery of Physical Explanation, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 325:
- To speak of "the space of three dimensions" (represented abstractly as a coordinate grid), or "space occupied by matter posihoned within it," is to speak about the product aspect. The process aspect is the "prespace" of transition in presencing.
- 2005, Metod Saniga, Rosolino Buccheri, Avshalom C Elitzur, Endophysics, Time, Quantum And The Subjective:
- Our prequantum space — prespace — is essentially larger than the ordinary classical space.
- 2008, Ervin László, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World, Rochester, V.T.: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, page 113:
- At the logically extrapolated but empirically unverifiable beginning of the cosmic process, only the field domain existed, in a primordial state. This was a spatially and temporally unbounded sea of fluctuating virtual energies: the prespace of the actualized universe.
- 2016, Brother Abaris ·, The Illuminist Army:
- They considered spacetime itself as part of an explicate order that is connected to an implicate order that they called prespace.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2025), “prespace, adj.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.