Hemn Spaces

Hemn Spaces (also called configuration spaces) are abstract theorical spaces attributed to Saunt Hemn and set out in the early Praxic Age. They are not places one can visit. Instead, a Hemn space is a coordinate construction chosen so that each point (an N‑tuple of numbers) captures everything that can be known about a system at an instant.

Description and practice

• Any well‑posed problem can be “moved” into a suitable Hemn space by picking coordinates that expose structure; working there often makes behavior legible that would be opaque in raw x–y–z lists.
• A point represents a complete state; the system’s history is a continuous path—often called a worldtrack—through that space.
• Theors habitually set up an appropriate Hemn space as a first step in analysis. This is not “travel through a fourth spatial dimension” or a stack of parallel rooms; it is a change of description.

Examples and uses

• In cosmography, a six‑dimensional space built from orbital elements offers a clearer picture of motion than positions and velocities, and serves as a concrete special case.
• In teaching dialogs, Hemn spaces are used to explain plausibility: a syntactic device or a trained mind favors continuations that follow a coherent path in Hemn space, and discounts scenarios that would require impossible jumps (for example, a block of ice appearing in a stellar core).

Worldtracks, Narratives, and current discourse

At a Plurality of Worlds messal, an elder theor described the cosmos itself as one worldtrack among many in a vast Hemn space. In that account, the visitors now called the Geometers are said to hail from other such tracks (“Narratives”). Another participant gave a primer: when multiple cosmi are modeled as worldtracks in the same configuration space, those tracks lie extremely close together in the vicinity of the earliest configurations and later diverge. This framing was related to recent results about distinct kinds of matter and to the history of newmatter, which is described as a way to realize nearby, permitted regions of the space of physical possibilities without positing “parallel rooms.” Certain speakers prefer the neutral term worldtrack; others use the Narrative idiom (noting that usage varies, and that some find it loaded).

Notes

• During the Praxic era it became common for theors to “leave three‑dimensional Adrakhonic space behind” in favor of Hemn spaces when reasoning about real systems.
• Hemn spaces generalize across disciplines: the same principles that clarify orbital dynamics also guide wide‑ranging theorics when the right coordinates are chosen.