Re: Imagining the Tenth Dimension

Thanks, Penn! A few people have noted slow load times, I guess I should
apologize for not mentioning that the site doesn't work very well if
you're on dialup.

When M-Theory says 11 dimensions, most physicists still qualify them as
being 10 spatial dimensions and 1 dimension of time. I believe science
has a bit of a split personality when it comes to discussions of time:
in some situations it is purely a quality you lay over the other "full"
dimensions, while in others it is something that can be stretched or
compacted (relativity), reversed (time-reversal symmetry), or folded
(wormhole theories, which as you probably know are not just a science
fiction concept).
My "way of imagining" is not what most modern physicists are teaching.
By insisting that time is a full spatial dimension that the one-way
chemical processes of our bodies force us to experience in a
deceivingly limited way, I have a way to then get to a version of the
tenth dimension which I believe ties a lot of different schools of
thought together: not just in science, but in questions of
consciousness, memes, and spirituality, and the relationship between
free will and quantum indeterminacy.

But all I can really claim is that, like any good science fiction, I
have created a way for people to imagine something that they probably
couldn't have before: the tenth spatial dimension.

Rob



Penn wrote:
Beautiful, Rob! =)

Did you create the flash animation, and do the voice over?

10 dimensions...mmm, wasn't it 11 at one time? Wikipedia tells me
there's 10 to 11 dimensions in various string theories.

Also, in the flash animation, the narrator says that the 4th dimension
is - basically - like the 2nd dimension is to the point-like 1st
dimension....does this mean that the popular concepts of multiple
"space dimensions" and a single "time dimension" are wrong? That they
are all just "dimensions" and that to categorize them as spacial or
temporal is but an artifact of everyday human sensorium?

.

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