I greatly apologise for the misunderstanding then.
All good.
However, just to make certain, you do agree with me regarding that the Crossroads of Infinity only scale to the Marvel multiverse and not to the Negative Zone then?
Obviously, yeah.
I agree, I just meant in the sense that that was the highest dimensionality that prefaced this alleged shift to infinite dimensionality.
I find this a bit unsubstantiated, then, especially given the aforementioned detail I've mentioned (That he is seeing the entire Crossroads, not just specific dimensional levels of the realm). We are never given a strict cap to the number of possible dimensionalities that can be accessed in the Crossroads, after all.
I also don't know if I'd call the dimensional shift an "alleged" one, given that he initially finds himself in 4-D space, and we know that the Crossroads themselves contain more than that. Doubly so because it's the meeting point of various universes, all of which can themselves vary in dimensionality (So, feasibly, all statements about higher-dimensional spaces in Marvel would feed back into it, if you understand what I mean)
Right, I agree. I'm saying that this quality could also be described as a "world of limitless dimensions" as well as a "junction to everywhere" and "crossroads to infinity" so in my view it's more intuitive to regard all three phrases, stated by the same character about the same place in the same scan, as referring to the same characteristic, rather than 1 of them referring to spatial dimensionality.
I find that debatable, given the universes aren't exactly contained in the Crossroads (To my knowledge, anyway), since it largely is just the realm where they all meet and from which they're all accessible, especially with recent comics defining the Superflow as the space containing and separating all the universes,
while simultaneously acknowledging the Crossroads as a separate, but still connected, place (You can also see that in the scan I've posted above, where the Sixth Cosmos is credited as the builder of the junction to everywhere). It'd be odd to describe it as "of limitless dimensions" if it was referring to universes (In the same way you could describe our universe as "of limitless stars," or similar verbiage), in that sense.
I understand your point about it being all the same scan also, yes, but I also think it's important to note the scene as a whole, rather than just that specific panel, and the scene as a whole
is prefaced by Reed's talk of accessing higher-dimensional space.
@Ultima_Reality You dismissed this.
I didn't dismiss it. I acknowledged it in the post just above. I've already made my stance on this scan clear (It's not mutually exclusive with saying the statement from Fantastic Four #51 refers to spatial dimensions). You keep posting things asserting that the Crossroads are an intersection of universes and I find that bizarre because I never claimed otherwise.
Then why not upgrading Annihilus to High 1-B? He can control the zone/dimensionality?
Already responded to this here:
The control over dimensionality, in this case, is talking about what he'd be able to do by harnessing power from the Cosmic Control Rod, Doom's use of which that storyline portrays as above anything Annihilus himself is able to do. For example, when he gets both the Control Rod and control over time, he obtains "omnipotent power" (Referring to how he now has full domain over all space and time, shown above) and
overpowers the Watcher with an energy blast.
The comic itself has Immortus say that
Annihilus is mostly useless to his and Doom's plans without the Control Rod, at the same time as he says said plans involve absorbing "the power of all space-time," so, that should already tell you Annihilus doesn't really scale to anything Doom does while empowered by the Negative Zone. He doesn't scale to the Crossroads.
Yeah. It's a bit vague scan.
The definition of "Vague" is "
of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning." That is objectively not what this statement is, given the very explicit language used in it.
"Infinite dimensions converge" mean meet at one place. so It's not about infinite higher dimensions in the first place. don't try to justify it with some random scans because it's talking about parallel dimensions in the first place.
Not sure why said dimensions "converging" means anything to that effect. It's a fairly neutral statement, not supporting nor denying that they are higher dimensions.
What exactly do you mean by "justify it with random scans," also? By "random scans," you mean: Scans from the same, short comic, that has one single, continuous story (Issue #4 starts off right where Issue #3 ended), that are talking about the same subject (The Cascade)? That's a pretty ridiculous objection to make.
He brought another scan of it called higher dimensional also, so it kinda makes sense though I don't know the book he got those scans.
By the way, I'd also like to ask what our treatment of the Marvel UK print is, cosmology-wise, since one comic, Children of the Voyager (1993, so, from around the time Tom DeFalco was Marvel's Editor-in-Chief), specifically, has some descriptions that are of interest to the topic here (Infinite-dimensional Marvel, that is)
If you're asking about the Handbook scan, it's from the A to Z Marvel Universe Hanbook from 2008. Issue 13, specifically (So it was actually released in 2010. My bad for mistaking that earlier)