"Laugh while you can, monkey boy!"
Posted on 02/19/2002 9:19:22 AM PST by RightWhale
But still, extended warranties do not exist.
From the article: Gravity, Spiropulu said, may soon be unified in an "unexplainable hierarchy of scale."
This was what caught my eye. I know it must be something really big, but I haven't a clue what it means.
Apparently this Arkani-Hamed theory can be proven in the lab. The same for the brane theory. A good theory would predict results, and the best new theories predict results the old theories cannot. That makes this theory not just another speculation, but an idea that may lead somewhere and attract other researchers.
Or should that be "A new reality above the corner"
or "A new reality straight through the curve"
or "A new reality squarely round the circle"
or "A new reality around the straight hall" ?
So... what you're saying is... that when you fly in an airplane, us folks on the ground don't simply appear to be as small as ants... we really shrink to the size of ants for the duration of your journey.... hmmmm....
Thanks for sharing.
"Laugh while you can, monkey boy!"
Don't need it. Ignoring friction losses, we can go anywhere that is at the same potential with no net energy expenditure.
"An extra dimension may be curled up like an unimaginably small ball, they said"
"the notion that a series of extremely tiny, vibrating strings may lurk beneath the level of quarks and leptons."
"at least one of these tiny dimensions might, in fact, be large enough to measure"
"Somewhere within the Planck scale, or at extreme energy levels, an incredibly small extra dimension may finally combine gravity and electromagnetism"
The trend here seems to focus on the extremely small size of this very real realm or domain of an extra dimension.
If this extra dimension is indeed proven to exist then its effects penetrate into our three dimensions. That small-scale activity means these extra-dimensional effects have been operating within our three dimensions throughout the history of our universe.
The reality of this extra dimension (or dimensions) means that the neuro-circuits in the human brain have been and are--at this very moment in time--being affected by the small scale and mysterious forces of this extra dimension.
Perhaps the millenia old search by humans for a previous and/or a subsequent existence beyond this one can be attributed in part to the effects of this extra dimension on human consciousness--the teeming and seething electro-chemical neuroactivity that is constantly occurring across an individual life--not to mention the almost infinite number of neuro-transmissions that have occured cumulatively in all individuals across human history.
The effects of another dimension on human thought may be profound. The staggering variety and volume of the neuro-operations involved in human awareness may compensate in some way for the extremely small energy scale of this extra-dimensional interactivity.
The discovery of this new dimension may be extremely important in that it paves the way for some kind of synaptic connection between God and Science.
Even between Life and Death.
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