prespace

1. not comparableliteratureOf a civilization: having yet to develop space travel.

   "No way to tell now," Miram admitted. "Lots of space junk around the second planet, though. Could be native, an example of a prespace culture making the transition, but the debris could also be the results of a mining operation or something else I have no frame of reference for."

   2016, Evan Currie, Warrior King, Seattle, O.R.: 47North, →ISBN, page 233

plural prespaces

1. Any of various theoretical states of physical existence that precede or underlie three-dimensional space.

   Our prequantum space — prespace — is essentially larger than the ordinary classical space.

   2005, Metod Saniga, Rosolino Buccheri, Avshalom C Elitzur, Endophysics, Time, Quantum And The Subjective

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   To speak of "the space of three dimensions" (represented abstractly as a coordinate grid), or "space occupied by matter posihoned within it," is to speak about the product aspect. The process aspect is the "prespace" of transition in presencing.

   1994, Daniel Athearn, Scientific Nihilism: On the Loss and Recovery of Physical Explanation, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 325

   At the logically extrapolated but empirically unverifiable beginning of the cosmic process, only the field domain existed, in a primordial state. This was a spatially and temporally unbounded sea of fluctuating virtual energies: the prespace of the actualized universe.

   2008, Ervin László, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World, Rochester, V.T.: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, page 113

   They considered spacetime itself as part of an explicate order that is connected to an implicate order that they called prespace.

   2016, Brother Abaris ·, The Illuminist Army