| Viper1 said: I'll brief you on the various dimeneions in string theory.
Dimension 1 - A single point. Dimension 2 - 2 points with an intersecting line between them. Dimension 3 - A fold between those points allowing the them to touch (roll up a piece of paper into a tube and thus 2D becomes 3D). Dimension 4 - Time. The difference in status between various points in a timeline. Dimension 5 - Two dimensional time. Branching paths off any given time stream. Dimension 6 - Time travel. 3D time. Folding time back in on itself (likes the piece of paper). Dimension 7 - All possible timelines from the beginning to the end of time. Infinity. Dimension 8 - A line between the infinity in our universe and the infinity in an alternate universe. Dimension 9 - Folding infinities between those universes. Travel between universes. Dimension 10 - The infinity of all infinities of all universes.
I guess technically it's more a lesson in the 9th dimension, than the 7th.
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Give me five minutes to put my heads back together after it exploded.
Okay, done.
I think you might be giving Silicon Knights - well, not too much credit, but credit in the wrong direction. If you want more direct influences which caused them to work with travel between universes, you should probably read Howard Phillips Lovecraft's dream sequence, specifically the stories surrounding Randolph Carter (and the city of Celephais, I guess), in whihch a man travels betwee universes and is hounded by a Mantorok-like entity. I guess, looked at from a scientific perspective, those stories would also be immensely interesting.
Lovecraft is actually responsible for a lot of science fiction concepts, incidentally, tthe most notable one being the concept of aliens among us (from Whisperer in the Darkness).
