If so, then science fiction hyperspace would be possible, and with it very rapid travel to stars and even distant galaxies. The relevance of this to Humanist Discussion Group is multifold. Science fiction, a branch of literature and science, kept the idea of hyperspace alive when almost all of physics and mathematics had abandoned it. It inspired me throughout my childhood and adulthood. Genius and creativity cross science and humanities.
Interdisciplinary study becomes very important in practice as well as theory.
Most interesting, perhaps, to detective novel readers like me, is the question of what happened to the French and British government knowledge about Fermat and Newton, if it existed. The French Revolution may have destroyed it in France, but that revolution or its aftermath eventually lost out in time thanks to Great Britain.