Question about top tiers powers in DCU and DCU dimensions

[SSJRyu1]

So I ran into an argument that DCU has infinite dimensions. Anybody got context and can shed some light on this? Is it legit or simply taken out of context?

"There are innumerable dimensions."

http://i.imgur.com/Xq1N0fu.jpg?1

"across parallel worlds and infinite dimensions"

http://imgur.com/1Mn0Hzt

 

[Antvasima]

The second image concerns a fairly low-level character, and as such is either blatant hyperbole, or talking about "dimensions" in the sense of universes with different laws of physics, or both in combination.

The first image is more uncertain, since the malleable time part may or may not refer to 5-dimensional space-time.

However, I talked in private with DarkLK about this earlier, and we seemed to agree that there are two possibilities:

Either it also uses the standard superhero comicbook convention of using "dimension" to refer to alternative universes with vastly alien laws of nature.

Alternatively, it does indeed refer to "innumerable" (which I think is still a finite number, but I will check) spatial and temporal dimensions, but this still has no effect of the size of the DC multiverse itself, which has elsewhere been referred to as roughly 11- or 12-dimensional.

This is similar to how infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces have been theorised to exist, but current scientific theory still postulates that our own multiverse is just 11- or 26-dimensional.

 

[TheMightyRegulator]

Isn't a retcon possible though, not unlike the size of Marvel's omniverse?

 

[Antvasima]

Well, Rama Kushna did not refer to the DC Multiverse specifically in that scan, and it would severely contradict the elsewhere displayed power levels of the cosmic characters.

We may already rate them far too high. After all, Neil Gaiman, the actual creator of Dream of the Endless, had him barely able to rewrite the timeline of a single universe, which is a Low 2-C feat. And Dream was able to cut off the wings of Lucifer.

For this enormously drastic a change, we need some sort of specific confirmation that is followed up upon, or happens in a major storyline, not a throwaway line in an obscure comicbook.

 

[TheMightyRegulator]

I see. That does indeed sound reasonable.

 

[Antvasima]

I checked up the term "innumerable", and according to Dictionary.com it means:

1. very numerous.

2. incapable of being counted; countless.

So definitely not anywhere near infinite, it seems.

 

[TheMightyRegulator]

Countless is a synonym of infinite. If the term innumerable is vague then it probably shouldn't be used nonetheless.

 

[Antvasima]

Well, it contradicts the dictionary definition, and the synonyms tends to be similar, not identical, words.

Regardless, as you said, the term is vague, and as such cannot be used as proof.

 

[Antvasima]

Anyway, should I close this thread now?

 

[TheMightyRegulator]

Yes, I think that's best.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay.