Any of you bastards trained cosmologists, philosophizers, or theoretical physicists?
I’m axing because i’m not, but i think i just had one of those transcendental euphoricisms while engaging in hypersynthesis in my Excremeditation Chamber, and i want to know if it’s a) crackpot, b) duh, i repeated what others have said before, or c) possibly a new way of looking at the interdimensional spatial relationships between parallel universes.
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I’ve got a degree in Philosophy, but I’ll warn you that I tend to regard metaphysics as something of a waste.
Ok, so there’s the parallel universe thing, right? I mean, we know it’s mathematically possible. And there’s probably at least ten dimensions, of which we can only experience three, unless you count time, then it’s four. So, in any one of these theoretical alternate universes, taking the example of a sentient creature potentially inhabiting this strange, mysterious Otherwhere, we often assume that because they exist within a different set of dimensions other than our own, that they are having a completely different experience, because they’re living in, say, six dimensions or whatever. I say that’s bullshit. They’re experiencing reality in three dimensions, just like us, only they’ve got a different set of three to exist within. And our own doesn’t even necessarily start with Dimension Number One. They’re all relative, not absolute. We might be living in dimensions Two, Five, and Eight, while they’re experiencing dimensions Four, Six, and Eleven. Maybe we share a dimension, maybe not. The baseline might be zero, but the starting point is different. I don’t know if that’s just idiotic nincompoopery, or if it’s just saying the same thing the theorists have already been saying all along, or if this is maybe a new way of looking at the world. What do you think? Does it even make sense? It’s difficult to articulate.
In other words: there IS no Flatland. We are not flat to anyone else, and they are not flat to us.
I don’t really know enough about the nature of dimensions to say.
I guess the other important thing, which i completely left out, is that no matter which dimensions you happen to inhabit, it might be possible that they all “add up” the same, like a magic square: in other words, any three dimensions may produce the same results that we experience in our universe. Things are not all wonky. Of course, it’s probably still possible to experience more, or less, than the 3+1 that we know so well. I guess my point is that, if we were to find the right equation to apply to ourselves, then it might actually be possible to visit, or travel through, other universes besides our own, assuming that they have the same laws of physics (which most probably won’t).