Talk:Spatial Slicing/@comment-74.178.254.167-20120809162525/@comment-5265497-20130717152508

"Where is it described that space moves at light speed?  Can we observe its progress with our current technology?  I was unaware of such a feat and spicing means that it cuts through not only space, which  might  be finite, but also time"

Actually, yeah we can. If we didn't, I would not be having this conversation right now. We've even generated some a diminutive space rift with powerful lasers (long story) and I am only describing them in theory. Plus, in physics, the speed of light is the fundamental speed limit regardless of energy, mass, and information and even gravity is limited to the speed of light and 'c' even interrelates space and time itself. Even massless particles that are pretty much halted by pretty much nothing, yet they still abide by this limit.

And this ability cuts through both space and time, it doesn't mean that it is instantaneous in all points of time where the user wishes, it just means there is a spatial rend that pierces that localized reality where time and space is cut, but the speed of the rift itself is an arbitrary measurement. It all depends on one's frame of reference.

In fiction, lasers move at observable speed that the eye can keep up so it's not hard to conceive of a spatial rend even slower (to allows other characters to even have a chance).