Hi there you all! I dropped by because the topic and thread looked interesting. If you don't mind a bit of armchair cosmology from an interloper, I sure don't. I'm an amateur astronomer and when I get back from one of my trips to the 8000 ft plateau in the Bodie mountains, I find I can't think in anything less than 3-d for weeks. What a truly amazing universe it is. And we are so small...
There is an interesting theory about the hyperdimensionality of space. So, according to this view, space is like a folded blanket with various parts just fractionally away from every other part. You could be millimeters away from the center of a star in some distant corner of the galaxy. Small scale folding of space-time prevents you from noticing. Turns out the equations go all funny if there is only one more dimension, but three or more works nicely.
So while we 3-D creatures are all happy to know what we know, it is like knowing a grain of sand on a beach by walking all around it. It is small, but bounded, yet appears to have no edge and be infinite. Since you can't hop to the next grain, the rest of the beach is right there, but invisible to you.
So this leads me to wonder, does God have a God? Does God have to play by the rules of physics? Not our physics, but the physics of that God's dimensionality? |
