“Modern physicist: Its possible that the universe is a two-dimensional bubble wrapped in a six-dimensional blanket. I have no real evidence to support that. In fact, I just made the whole thing up yesterday.”
That’s not near true. It’s crazy BS. Why assert it?
> Its crazy BS. Why assert it? <
My unnamed modern physicist quote was satire, a gross exaggeration for comic effect. (Maybe I got the exaggeration part right, but missed the comic effect part this time - win some, lose some.)
Anyway, Ive taught both Relativity and Quantum Mechanics at the college level. I understand the article, and I understand how those theoretical physicists often think. They often go off on crazy tangents that are nothing more thinking out loud. Hence the satire.
Heres another example. There is no hard lab evidence for string theory. None. And it is thought by many that there will never be any such evidence! Yet many theoretical physicists spend a lifetime fussing around with it.