Talk:Sub-Space Communications (Star Trek zine by Brooks)

Yeah, a disambiguation would be definitely good, there are too many that only differ through some hypen. Right now Subspace redirects to Sub-Space and then there is Subspace Communications in addition to this one, and then the three Subspace Chatter ones.--RatCreature 23:05, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure where to even start to sort that tangle out. I think my forte lies elsewhere... --Mrs. Potato Head 23:18, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

No it's not in any real science use that I know of. Well, in English language mathematics it's used as a term in linear algebra for a specific kind of vector space. Nor it is a fanterm. It's part of that wider SF technobabble like "hyperspace" though much like that it never quite means the same from source to source. In Star Trek it is used for the same reason, to have some plot device to handwave the FTL travel/communication that contradicts physics via technobabble. I think ST may have been the first to call the technobabble imaginary space "subspace" rather than "hyperspace" (that has been in use in SF since the 1930s), and others like Stargate have adopted it since, but I'm not sure Trek really was the first for subspace. And of course it is used in BDSM for something entirely different. --RatCreature 10:34, 14 August 2010 (UTC)