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When I mentioned the 4th dimension in the last post, I explained how you could connect the universe in one state to the universe in another state using a 4-dimensional line. I used the example of you now and you one minute ago, but in the biggest picture you could think of that line beginning at the big bang (assuming that's how the universe began) and ending with one of the possible endings to our universe (whether that be the big crunch, or just whatever).
Remembering that a point in the 4th dimension is the universe in a particular state (which encapsulates the entirety of the first 3 dimensions), a point in the 7th dimension then would encapsulate the entirety of the 3 dimensions below it. If you're following correctly (and I'm explaining well enough), then you understand that this means that everything that could, did, or will ever happen in the universe is contained in a point in the 7th dimension.
Dimension 8-
When we look at a point in the 7th dimension (which encapsulates everything that could or will have occured in the universe) we're only looking at part of the picture. And I know what you're thinking: How can there be anything else? Well, we're only looking at one scenario.
We have to be thinking about other scenarios where the initial conditions are not the same as in our universe (meaning the universe began differently than it did for ours), possibly resulting in different physical laws (where, for example, atoms could be unstable).** So to enter the 8th dimension we have to first imagine a 7-dimensional line, and a line, remember, needs at least 2 points. this means we first need a second point which I just explained would be a universe in which the initial conditions were different. Now we have a 7-dimensional line. For the 8th dimension then (like the 2nd dimension) we simply need a 3rd point in which we can draw a line branching off of the first and connecting it with. So, we've now entered the 8th dimension.
**Just something I'd like to note: Some physicists, when thinking of different initial conditions, automatically think of other (parallel) universes. I, personally, do not see this as being necessary. However, I'm not a certified physicist.
Dimension 9-
Just as the 3rd dimension was used to "teleport" from one 2D location to another, and the 6th dimension was used to travel from one 5D line to another, the 9th dimension would be used to travel from one 8D line to another. This means that you'd be traveling to a universe (again, look at the ** above) with a different set of initial conditions.
And finally, Dimension 10-
In the 4th dimension we considered the entirety of 3D space in a particular state as a single point in the 4th dimension, and in the 7th dimension we considered every possible branch of every possible timeline in a universe as a single point in the 7th dimension. The 10th dimension, too, is a point which encapsulates the 3 dimensions below it. In other words, a point in the 10th dimension includes all of the possible branches of all the possible timelines of all the possible universes.
If were going to continue the cycle, though, then we'd have to imagine a second 10-dimensional point in which to make a line. But this is where it all ends; there's no place else to go. Once we've imagined all of the possible timelines of all the possible universes as a single point in the 10th dimension we've gone as far as we can. There's nothing else to consider.
There is, however, something to discuss. Physicists tell us that in the 10th dimension are, possibly, an infinite number of super strings, which are microscopic (VERY microscopic, approximately 2 octillion times smaller than an atom) 1-dimensional "strings" of energy. These strings could be the most fundamental parts of our universe, meaning they, instead of atoms, could be the REAL building blocks of matter. I'd go into it here but it is a subject for another post (and even that would be tough to do). If you just can't wait for another time though, click the link I've provided at the end of this post.
Well, it's been an exciting journey through the 10 dimensions of our universe. Even though it's all currently just theory, physicists really are entertaining these ideas, and they really could have credibility in explaining the reality of our world. Thanks for reading! I'd appreciate some comments...good or bad!
Some sources: Michio Kaku, Lisa Randall, Rob Bryanton, Brian Greene
Google: String Theory
Let's think about those 2-dimensional creatures again. Because they are only 2-dimensional, they are limited to 2 dimensions in sight as well. If a 3D object passed through their 2D world, they would see 2-dimensional cross sections as the object passed through. Think of an orange passing through their world. They would see a small, orange circle begin to form, grow into a larger circle, and then shrink again until the orange went all the way through. Here's a visual:
We can apply this same principal to ourselves concerning the 4th dimension. If you could see your body in the 4th dimension, you'd be like a long wavy snake. You'd see your embryonic self at one end, and your deceased self at the other. Just like that 2D creature, though, who can only see 2-dimensional cross sections of that 3-dimensional orange, we, as 3D creatures, can only see 3-dimensional cross sections of our 4-dimensional self (this is also known as "aging"). If you look at yourself right this second, you're only see a cross-section...not the whole 4-dimensional you. Freaky huh?
Dimension 5-
In the last post, I noted that when we move down here in the lower dimensions, we are unaware of our movement in the dimensions above. Time, a line in the 4th dimension, feels like a straight line to us; we're moving from the past to the future. However, that is only an illusion. Once again, like that 2D creature twisting around in 3 dimensions on that Mobius strip, the 4th dimensional line on which we are traveling is actually twisting around in the 5th dimension.
At any given moment, an almost infinite amount of lines are branching off of that 4D line. These branches are paths that we could take. For you right now, one branch involves you still reading this, another involves you taking a bathroom break, and yet another involves you completely stopping reading this and going to watch TV. Those different branches are there due to your own choice, chance, and the actions of others. Quantum physicists tell us that simply by the act of observation we are collapsing waves of probability, and these collapses result in the subatomic particles that make up our world.
So, you can start to see how we, at every moment in our lives, are collapsing the amount of probable futures (lowering the number of branches) on our personal 4D lines we're experiencing as time.
Dimension 6-Ok, so you're beginning to notice the pattern; line, branch, fold. For the first dimension we had a line. We entered the 2nd dimension by adding another line that branched off of the first, and then folded those two branches together to enter the 3rd dimension. We have the same thing here: In the 4th dimension we had a line, and from that line at any given moment were a myriad of lines branching off of it. So, logicially, next would be another fold.
Let's say you wanted to go back and visit yourself as a kid. You can imagine folding the 4th dimension through the 5th, jumping back through time and space to get there. But let's say that you wanted to get to the world where you were famous and rich. There'd be no way to go through time from your current position and end up in that world. There are only two ways to get there.
The first option would be to travel back in time to when you were a kid, somehow trigger the events that'll make you famous and rich, and then travel forward in time to see one of the possible new futures you have just created for yourself. Believe it or not though, this would be taking the long way. The shorter way would be to fold the 5th dimension through the 6th which would allow you to instantly jump to another 5th dimensional line.
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Tomorrow, the final four dimensions (7, 8, 9, and 10)!
Some sources:
Michio Kaku, Lisa Randall, Rob Bryanton, Brian Greene.
What's a dimension? It's a degree of freedom. In other words, a dimension is room in which you can move. The 3 dimensions we experience ever day of our lives (and the first 3) are up-down, left-right, forward-back. Those are the only directions in which you can move.
Let me rephrase: Those are the only directions in which you can sense that you're moving. To make sense of this idea, I'm going to start with dimension zero and work my way up to the 10th. This will allow your mind to better imagine higher dimensions. So....here wo go!:
Dimension zero-I'll start with a point. A point is just that, a point. You know it from geometry as a position in a system. A point is of indeterminate size; it has no length, width, or depth.
Dimension one-
A line is made by connecting two points. A line is a 1-dimensional object, it has no width or depth.
Dimension two-
If we draw a second line over the first, we enter the 2nd dimension. Our object now has length and width. It'll be more convenient for us, though, when talking about higher dimensions if we enter the second dimension by drawing a line that branches off from the first one. So now we have a shape that looks like a "y."
Now let's imagine a race of 2-dimensional creatures. A 2-dimensional creature would only have length and width; no depth. So think about them this way: these creatures couldn't possibly have a digestive tract because the pipe from their mouth to their bottom would divide them into two pieces.
The amazing thing about dimensions being stacked on one another is that when we move down here in the lower dimensions we are unaware of our movement in the dimensions above. Think about it this way. If you take a Mobius strip (take a strip of paper, give it one twist and tape the ends together) and draw a line down the middle of it you will, somehow amazingly, end up at the beginning of the line you started. This means that a Mobius strip must be a representation of a 2-dimensional object.
Now, let's think of our 2-dimensional creature traveling down the line we just drew. You can imagine that right? The Mobius strip involved taking a strip of paper and giving it a twist. This creature, when traveling down the line, would be unknowingly moving with this twist around the paper until it ended up where it began. You could also think of this by imagining a human circumnavigating the world. To the human, it would seem he was moving in a straight line, but he is actually following the curve of the earth all the way around until he ended up when he started.
Dimension 3-
The 3rd dimension is the easiest for us to imagine because we experience it every day of our lives. We can move in those 3 directions I mentioned in the intro. It'll be easier for us to think of higher dimensions though if we think of the 3rd dimension in this way: the 3rd dimension is what you fold through to jump from one place to another in a 2-dimensional world. Let me give you an example. Think of an ant walking on a flat (2-dimensional) newspaper. If we fold the paper in the middle, it'll bring both ends of the paper together. The ant, that was on one of the edges, can now instantaneously jump from its current position on one edge to the other edge without having to travel across the whole length of the paper. Here's a visual:
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I'm going to stop here for now. I'll continue further with the next 3 dimensions (4, 5, and 6) in the next post (probably 2/18). If I didn't, this would be one hell of a long post. I hope to see you here tomorrow! Interesting topic isn't it?!
Some sources:
Michio Kaku, Lisa Randall, Rob Bryanton, Brian Greene.
Sorry for being repetitive but I've been going through some stuff lately and haven't had the time or the concentration to write a decent post. So, I bring to you more miscellanea (which at least I know you enjoy).
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Off the top of your head, name one conspiracy theory where the conspirator was right.
"You can't put a square peg in a round hole." Actually, it depends on the size of the peg relative to the hole.
The phrase "You don't know your history" doesn't make sense. Unless you have some kind of memory problem then you probably know your own history. The phrase should change to something more specific, such as, "You don't know the part of history I'm talking about." Actually.....it should just disappear.
Someone with blonde hair once told me they were going to get dark brown highlights.
"Counterfeit proof" is one of the most meaningless phrases to ever be coined; especially with respect to money. There are two things about counterfeit money you gotta remember:
1) No matter what the treasury does, someone somewhere will have already counterfeited it within in a week...tops.
2) Nobody looks at the money close enough to detect its counterfeitness. Sure, some stores have that pen they run across anything higher than a twenty, but what happens with other exchanges in other stores? Or, don't you think someone created a bill that'll pass that little pen test? You're damn right. The whole process is pointless. (I'm not usually one to complain without having a suggestion, but in this case, I just don't think there is a solution. Even if you go all electronic something will go wrong. Computers "unexpectedly" do that from time to time.)
What is it with people admitting that they're superstitious? This makes no sense whatsoever. These people are telling you that they believe in something(s) with absolutely no reason to.
..............................what?
Have you ever actually witnessed a monkey eating a banana?
I thought this time I'd just share a few of my random thoughts and experiences with you. I keep a notebook and write my ideas and such down and I thought it'd be fun to go through some of them!
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You never hear of a woman leaving her "barn door" open.
What is the evolutionary advantage of the earlobe?
Have you ever wanted to infuriate someone and not suffer any consequences? I'll tell you how. Steal doormats! This may sound trivial at first but think about it. Wouldn't you be pissed to find out yours was missing? Sure you would! Also, nearly everyone has a doormat, so you could pick a street and steal everyone's doormat on that same street. In fact, you could pick a new street every night. And, once you've taken everyone's doormat, you could even go back to the first street and start all over! Wouldn't that be fun?
If black is the absence of color, then why did/do people refer to blacks as "people of color?"
Conflicting Wisdom:````````````````````
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Don't let yesterday be too much of today.
Actions speak louder than words.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The more the merrier.
Two's company; three's a crowd.
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In the children's song "Old MacDonald," what does "E-I-E-I-O" mean?
Here's a challenge for you: come up with a sentence that includes all seven of the deadly sins.
My mom once asked me to get her some cake (it had recently been my birthday). It was one of those half-and-half cakes; the flavors being white and chocolate. So, I picked up a plate and began to ask her some necessary questions.
How many pieces? One, two, twelve?
"Two," she said.
What flavor? Two chocolate, two white, one of each?
"Both white," she said.
What kind of pieces? Inside, side, corner? Both pieces the same, different?
"Both side pieces," she said.
What size pieces? Small, medium, large?
She was pissed now because of all of my questions, but nonetheless said, "Medium, both of them."
Then I thought about it for a second..."Hmmm....what is medium anyway? Compared to what?"
"JUST BRING ME MY DAMN CAKE!" she yelled in at me.
I stared at her for a second and then calmly replied, "Did you want ice cream with that? One scoop or two?"
You've probably heard of the word "charlatan." If not, I'll save you some trouble. It's a person who pretends to know things they really don't. Just the kind of pretentious self-conscious people I like to deal with on a daily basis.
The word is derived from the combining of the word "charlatan" with the Latin "arrogāns" meaning "arrogant". I'm sure you've met a few charrogans in the past, and are probably dealing with at least one right now. There are two groups I've noticed, as I've already stated, so let's find out which charrogan your "buddy" is.
Let's start with a Type B charrogan. This group consists of those who truly are smart, but acquire some compulsive need to flaunt it at every opportunity they're given. You've seen these people I'm sure. They go out of their way to prove something to you; usually their intelligence level. Say they're working on Calculus homework. They might say, while sitting immediately next to someone who they know doesn't possess any Calculus knowledge at all, something like, "Wow! This Calculus is so easy! Especially these derivatives! Just use the power rule and BAM! they're done." Arrogant right? Why say that? There's absolutely no reason to!
Alright, now we have the Type A charrogans; "A" for Alpha because that's what these people need to feel like all the time. These Type As are essentially Type Bs with an extra need: complete superiority. The intelligence level can vary though, which makes this group even worse (as impossible as that sounds)! Let's say this time someone is praising him/herself over a good grade they received on a history test. There's certainly nothing wrong with this act as long as it's not gone overboard. This person is not a charrogan. The kind of person I'm talking about will approach this praiser and say, "I've gotten straight As this whole semester!" See how much worse they are? They have to one-up you on everything...everything! You could simply be telling your friends about how you caught 5 fish yesterday, and a Type A, who isn't your friend (and isn't even part of the conversation!), would let you know that he caught 6 fish in the same pond. Now how unneeded was that?
Charrogans, of all types, are obviously in need of attention. It's sad that both of their parents work all day and night, or they get majorly spoiled at home and it's different at school, etc...Whatever the reason behind it though, there's no absolutely excuse for executing a flaunt in such a manner. I don't understand what these people get out of it in the first place. Most others will ignore them, and it's a sure-fire way to score a negative number on the one-to-ten social scale.
It's completely ok to flaunt every once in a while; I have no problem with it. The problems begin when people go overboard and out of line, and I think this is pretty self-explanatory. Running through the hallways alerting everyone to your memorization of your fortieth TV show theme song is a not-so-extreme example of what I mean.
So, if you're a charrogan of Type A, B, or maybe even a letter I haven't covered, I hope you understand now what the general population thinks of you. Even a group of double-digit IQers can pick you out of the lot by exploring the crevices and passageways of their intricate nascular system.
This group of symbols, which was compiled gradually over thousands of years, is downright repugnant. It's redundant, as I've already demonstrated, and it's also majorly uncreative. There are nine letters with names containing the long E sound: B, C, D, E, G, P, T, V, and Z. The letters H and I are simply ninety-degree rotations of each other. F is just an E with a missing foot; same thing with P and B just with a bigger foot. And W......W!.....*growls* If this letter was a man he would need to be hung on a cross and have his fingers horse torn one by one while enjoying some nice subcutaneous pedal cauterization.
I'll begin with comparing its name to its shape. Name: double U. Shape: double V. What the hell is that?! I personally write my Ws as two Us and I hope you do as well. Second, it's the only letter with more than one syllable (I'll talk more about this later). Lastly, I really don't care for the idea of doubling a letter and then giving the result the title of being a letter of its own.
From what I understand though, it used to be shaped like two Us, but the doubled V version became the common usage when it was introduced to England during the Norman Invasion which took place in the late 11th century CE. Even so, the letter is a bit superfluous.
How about the vowels now? The only one I've mentioned so far is E. Really the only problem I have with the vowels is the crap about the letter Y being considered one in special circumstances. Let's take a look at some words where this is the case: Mary, myth, candy, hymn, dusty, empty......are you picking up on something?......That's right! Every time it's considered a vowel it takes the sound of a vowel that already exists! It makes no unique sound of its own when considered a vowel! Simply more redundancy!
One last thing I want to talk about is the syllable thing I mentioned earlier. Why couldn't we have cool multi syllable names like the Greeks did? (Many other cultures have multi syllable letter names as well, but the Greeks had the coolest names) We have A, they have Alpha; we have O, they have Omicron. This is obviously nothing major, but it just further shows how lame our alphabet really is. So, with that, I'll leave you with an alphabet that isn't as exorbitant:
A B D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V X Y Z
I'm sorry, it's my fault. Apparently I wasn't very clear in the introduction on what this poid (blog) is all about. For one, I was trying too hard to be funny. You've all heard the phrase "start with a joke." Well, obviously this "joke" was on me
Anyway, I am now, in good ol' American English (oxymoronic, I know), going to explain what that horrid junk in the first post actually means.
Some piece of information that I am ignorant about (for whatever reason) is what I classify as a secret. This information can be anything! The square root of 56,742 is an example of what I mean. I probably don't know that one just off the top of my head; therefore, it's a secret.
This poid is mainly about two things:
1) Finding out the real story behind things that maybe isn't very clear.
2) Deeply analyzing things we've been conditioned to just take for granted.
So, please, give me one more chance to prove to you that I can be a good, entertaining, poid writer. I've already written two poids that I think you'll like. The one, you already know, is about the English alphabet. So, I hope to see you back tomorrow!
Any withholding secret withholders withholding withheld secrets will be indefinitely buried in a hole with dimensions no smaller than one and one half square cubits for a period of time no shorter than three fortnights. And don't you worry, I will personally uncover every last one of these withholding secret withholders as I am as persistent as a Jehovah's Witness knocking on your front door. So, here, I begin my journey of uncovering these withheld secrets 98 score and 16 years after the "withdrawing" of Jesus Christ.
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