Haven't voted yet. Could be busy with the holidays, I already contacted him. Think it was on the Friday too? But it's all cool I'm not in a hurry here and think if we get one more staff on this it should be enough. Want to see it to completion, but this still a side project to me.
No problem, and thank you so much for the time and attention. It's ok to take time since I know this is a pretty long effort and reading the whole blog can be a time-consuming beast. Right now I'm working, but once I'm home in the afternoon I'll answer this, if that is ok.
This happens because of the Dual Structure of these two domains. It is explained in the Perfect Guide passages that the Imaginary Number Domain has a counterpart to everything that exists in the Lower Domain.
Then it's repeated when talking about Momo's consciousness.
Finally, Imaginary space and Imaginary time heavily influence the plot. Thus confirming that they are not exceptions. Hence, there should be an equivalent counterpart to the dimensions of the Real World Domain in the Imaginary Number One, making it a total of eight.
In the section of the blog, Superiority of Imaginary Space and Time, I detail the many reasons why Imaginary Space and time are portrayed as thorough transcendent to their Real Domain Counterparts. Furthermore, all of the standard space and time model, all existing phenomena are within bounds of the Real Number Domain. Beyond that range are the contents of Y-Data which begins to cover transcendent events possible only through interference with the Imaginary Number domain and beyond.
There'll be a whole cube counterpart in the imaginary number domain. One example of this are the Gnosis, the human consciousness of rejection. They are still tridimensional forms in the Imaginary Number Domain and following the flow of imaginary time, even though in the Real Number Domain their lesser counterparts are mostly composites of sodium chloride (salt) and occasionally water.
Not sure what you mean with the Space of All Possible Ideas. Whether you mean what you've written in a literal sense — a space of all possibilities — or that being a theory that I don't know about. Could you clarify to me about that? Because Xenosaga's imaginary terminology, while being its own thing and having its own set of rules, was inspired by Hawking's conceptualization of Imaginary Time. Here Imaginary is approached not as something unreal, instead being something that challenges logic.
Is there any demonstrable example of the Real Domain space being infinitesimal in size to the Imaginary Domain space?
There's a variety from different sources of the lore that indicate that.
In the Superiority of Imaginary Space Time subsection of the blog, I also explain this all in more detail. If anyone else is interested.
Counted the vote, and thank you! About the new standards, I couldn't tell you for sure either. I'm also getting a better grasp of these changes as they come not to stake a claim that I am any expert of the standards so far either. There are reasons to believe it but there are also a contest or two to that interpretation. They make me question myself about how solid a 1-A rating would be even in the new one. If that bridge ever needs to be discussed I'll help from a neutral position or get in the way since my practical doubts are a few as well.
To clarify, shrinking is required to leave which dimension?
That is actually a hard one to call. It happened when the Hypersphere was passing through a space-time cleft between real and imaginary. The hypersphere itself, as mentioned above was a real domain structure with a surface connected to imaginary space. It shrunk to planck size because that's the only accessible area between two dimensions (or rather, of the imaginary number domain that is accessible from the real one), then it was converted to imaginary space that is immune to interference from real space according to the imaginary pocket entry of Episode III.
At least off the top of my mind I can't remember a verbatim statement about infinite 3-D space. The Real Number domain has the 4 standard dimensions and an origin point of the Big Bang, which the main antagonist eternally returns to before the entirety of the dimensional universe is destroyed by the power of Anima.
I'm only counting a +1 from Imaginary Time, indeed. But a +1 rather than a +3 from Imaginary Space would however run contrary to the rule of everything in the Lower Domain having an at least equal counterpart. Wouldn't that be a counter-intuitive conclusion, taking how the lore behaves in every other aspect and the author's frequent underlining of there being no exceptions? It seems divergent to the lore's observed rules that the imaginary space would only have 1 dimension when real domain space has 3.
It's simply that the Imaginary Number Domain, specifically, has a counterpart to everything. It seems contrary to this rule of the lore to conclude that Imaginary Space only has 1 dimension because the Real Number Domain's space has three of them. That would make it so that only one out of the three dimensions of real space have a counterpart, which does break the pattern presented by the franchise whenever it speaks about these correlations.
I didn't say that Imaginary Space has only 1 dimension. I said that it's likely a 4D space. A 4D space still has dimension 1-3.
Currently tied up ATM, but given the Upper Domain > Lower Domain > Imaginary Numbers Domain > Real Numbers Domain with Imaginary ND having face value statements about transcending time and space; this was 1-C at minimum based on what I talked with Aeyu about years ago in Discord. And the OP added more elaborate context about each of those domains having multiple layers which basically results in 1-B minimum. Also some "Beyond Dimensions" statements might be 1-A based on some of those same conversations I had.
From what I read here, 3D objects in Real Space are still seen as 3D object in Imaginary Space. It's not depicted as infinitesimal, 1D, 2D, or the like.
Could be my personal view of the matter, but I feel like we would be expecting too much to say that the franchise should say word by word that objects are infinitesimally small sized rather than simply inferring that difference in scale from how things are portrayed in the series. Even if Xenosaga does have an habit of saying things verbatim a number of times.
That is correct, yes.
To take an example from comics, higher beings/spaces would depict the 3-D world as flat or miniscule.
I feel that the Juli Mizrahi quote about the Hypersphere that we discussed before does carry the implication that it was at best Planck-Scale Sized before disappearing altogether once it was converted to imaginary space. It being originally a huge structure rather easily seen from space. I took a new look around my folders to find the entry to the Hilbert Effect in episode III once more, and it appears to support that, since KOS-MOS's expands the absolute minimal accessible area to several million Astronomical Units.
Other than that, I can't give you many examples of objects from the Real Number Domain existing explicitly in the Imaginary Number Domain because lore dictates that simply put, that is not possible. And judging from the entries on UMN transfer from Episode 3, even the less complex, exposed kind of transfer is done by just converting everything into information form first before having it reappear at the intended location, rather than the objects existing fully physically in the Imaginary Number Domain at any moment.
From what you said earlier, "the only accessible area between dimensions is planck sized at best." To reiterate, going from Real Space to Imaginary space involves shrinking to Planck size to fit through the dimensional hole?
That is correct, it becomes an imaginary number domain existence of planck scale. It is what happened to planet Earth (Lost Jerusalem) of the example above.
Since that's the case, this example wouldn't fulfill the size difference requirement in the site FAQ since the object actively shrinks to appear that way.
It doesn't seem to me that that interpretation would work since otherwise there would be no explanation as to how Lost Jerusalem was perfectly planet sized when it was domain shifted back to the Real Number Domain at the end of the story. As the quote presented in the example goes, the planet became an imaginary domain existence, and it was a planck sized one there when it did.
