imagining the 10th dimension

submitted by pigeon
1 decade 8 years ago

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Baquetasays...

I really think the preamble from www.tenthdimension.com is worth mentioning alongside this video. It's included right at the end of the video, but is only seen for a fairly short time:

"The "theory of reality" that I advance on this website and in the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" is not the one that is commonly accepted by today's physicists. Anyone wanting to know more about the currently established thinking behind string theory and the tenth or eleventh dimension should refer to such excellent books as "Parallel Worlds" by Michio Kaku, "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene, or "Warped Passages" by Lisa Randall.

I invite you to think of this as an entertaining diversion that for some people will have a strong and thought-provoking connection to their impression of how the world really works. If you click on "The Forum", you will be taken to a page that gives readers an opportunity to debate the concepts presented in the book and this website more fully. Enjoy! " - Rob Bryanton

The presentation in the video suggests that it is presenting factual information, so I think it's important that it be qualified as what it really is: a hypothesis.

With all that said, an excellent video.

dagsays...

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

That was really neat. But even as a layman - I got the impression that he was pulling more from science fiction than real physics. Still, heaps of fun.

arnorsays...

I think it's quite obvious that the video presents a hypothesis, rather than fact. But still, I find it to be an interesting one.

intangiblemegsays...

The analogy at the beginning is from one of my favorite books, James A. Abbott's "Flatland." The whole book is spectacular (very short and highly recommended) and gives perspective to the concept of higher-numbered dimensions.

Baquetasays...

Arnor: I just figured it might not be obvious to people who know very little about this area of science. As the video seems to be a primer for exactly those folks, I thought it was worth mentioning...

Ivegotthebendssays...

As soon as he starts talking about vibrating strings being the creation point for all particles I have to roll my eyes. I've heard some interesting stories about string theory on NPR, but I find it just as impossibly foolish to believe these theories as an end, as a beginning, as God being the beginning and the end. Seriously, vibrating super strings (how we are old to perceive them) are the beginning of all particles as we perceive them? Yeah, it's acknowledged as an uproven theory, but couldn't we come up with something a little less mystical to attempt to prove?
Don't get me wrong, I find this stuff fascinating and interesting, but if a scientist replaced vibrating strings with God, it would sound just as likely to me. These theories, to me, seem to be a way to grab at the hope that life can continue forever. Instead of holding out for heaven, we hold out for the ability to jump through time to experience all possibilities for our lives. I'll stick with atheism.

Halon50says...

I'm soooooo confused right now.... and/or drunk.

Why does it stop at the 10th dimension again? Because all possible realities and imagined prospects are contained in a single point in that dimension?

t.geigersays...

Wow.. what a load of crap. I've never really believed that time was the 4th dimension (always felt it was the 0th dimension), but I was able to follow along with this video and see where they were trying to go with it. Right up until they hit the sixth dimension anyway. At that point, it sounded like they were running out of ideas for higher dimensions and just kept explaining the same thing over and over again in different terms (all of them being alternate time lines).

Really now, how can any one time line be more "alternate" than another? Oh, physics are different in this time line? Yeah, still just another time line. This one just had the mechanics unfold slightly differently after the big bang. And the tenth dimension is just a point containing it all. Nowhere to go and nothing to see here! Uh huh. That's like saying Akron is in a different universe from Earth, just because one contains the other.

I can only hope that the leading string theory is nowhere near this one. This explanation was much closer to philosophy than science. I mean, my theory that the tenth dimension is just a filling station in eastern Hoboken has about as much credence. I don't know, maybe the theory presented here is sound and the people who put this together just really suck at presentations. Would not surprise me much. Science departments are not usually known for their outstanding PR.

jonnysays...

*long


The line we can imagine drawing from ourselves one minute ago to ourself right now does not exist. We are only what we are at this moment. And then we are gone.

13568says...

Alright, I'll take a stab at it. The Tenth Dimension is the culmination of every formation of every dimension within it. A point of Existence connected to a point of non-Existence. Like one's and zero's... So if we Exist, then in what form? Existence would be a pool of infinite possibilities.

As for Non-Existence... I can't think of any another forms of non-existence beyond that of not being...

Connect each point with a line and you have the 11th Dimension. To travel in this dimension, a bridge to the 12th dimension (which is a mirror image of the 11th dimension) would connect these two Decimal Dimensions of random existence and non-existence...

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