B5 hyperspace and conservation of energy

[Shinova]

A thread a few days back talked about how a ship entering another dimension would understandably violate CoE.

But let's say that normal space and hyperspace are simply two layers of space-time within the same system, the universe. If the two "dimensions" both exist in the same system, then CoE wouldn't be violated, right? Or is there still a violation?


EDIT: I wouldn't say layers, but think of this analogy: Oil floats on water, but the volume is calculated as that of the whole container, not each individual substance. Hyperspace would be like that oil and normal space like the water.

[BlkbrryTheGreat]

The universe is, by defination, all of existence. As long as that energy exists in some form in some part of the universe (including hyperspace)then COE isnt violated.

Even if hyperspace isnt part of the universe (which is a notion I have trouble believing) then COE still isnt violated. Your not actually creating or destroying energy when entering or leaving hyperspace, your just changing the dimension that the energy is located in.

[Shinova]

I was also thinking up of an idea that if hyperspace (not necessarily B5 hyperspace) existed, then perhaps if one could change the "dimensional state" of an object, like an electron changes energy states, the object could jump into hyperspace and vice versa.

[Shaka[Zulu]]

it kind of plays into the idea of certain aspects of gravity being able to 'slip' between dimensional branes... other dimensions might also explain where all the 'dark' energy is that is driving the continued expansion of the universe

[SyntaxVorlon]

This all pretty hard to prove as Babylon 5 never really gave much of an explanation of its hyperspace system other than that it requires quantium 40 and makes teeps better. One thing that is known is that it is highly energized, almost gaseous like a nebulae. One could infer that is a different D-plane of our universe and that would serve the COE.