ThinksMarkedly wrote:Is there a difference?
We're talking about the propagation of information at the speed of light (whatever the local speed of light is). Space and time are the same thing, just multiplied by or divided by c.
The transit time was immeasurable to the best of the instruments in the Honorverse, meaning it was indistinguishable from zero given all the possible errors that had to be accounted for. Given that ships transit in this virtually zero time, it stands to reason that light would also transit in virtually zero time. From that, we conclude that the length of the wormhole neck is actually virtually zero too. (assuming HV physics don't get even wonkier here, of course)
Okay, I will concede. But that raises a question in my mind about how a mass transit would ever work.
Consider the case of two ships of any size trying to go through a wormhole together; it does not matter if they are going the same or opposite directions. If their hyper-generators are not exactly in sync, then one will enter first and the other have to wait the minimum ten seconds; because I believe that you are telling me that is NO lag time with respect to the stability of the transit. The more ships trying to transit together the worse the problem will become, unless all ships can exactly match the hyper-generator activation with not even an attosecond amount of difference.