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Originally Posted by Homeslice
6doublefive321 says they did.
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There is a significant difference between the original novels and the prequels. In the original novels, Herbert left it very vague as to how the travel worked, just that it did and that it required a navigator or a computer (computers / artificial minds were banned). In the prequels, the authors elaborated more with the Holtzman engines (which Holtzman didn't perfect). I may have misspoke about relativistic speeds, but nowhere in the original novels is "folding space" brought up. That term, I think, was invented by Lynch in his adaption of the original Dune novel. Lynch fucked up a lot of concepts from the novel which are commonly mistaken as original concepts. The whole "sound as a weapon" was the most ludicrous.
In the original novels, there were references made to "flying through stars and exploding" if a navigator wasn't sufficiently under the influence of the spice. This assumption does not support the concept of "folding space", which would preclude the dangers of flying into anything. In the later novels, the danger of collisions were dropped for the danger of getting lost between physical universes, which is compatible with the idea of "folding space".
Wow. I need to get a life and go shopping for a new pocket protector.