Thursday, December 3, 2009

Times, dimes, rhymes... it's not sublime.

I've accepted the reality of extra hidden dimensions. Somewhere in our history the universe we see was reduced to 11 dimensions, one of time and ten of space. But there is no reason to believe that it couldn't have been two of time and ten of space.
We grew up accepting spatial dimensions with a single time dimension. We understand that intuitively. Now try to imagine what it would mean to have a second time dimension. Where would it go? What would it measure? It's even harder to imagine than the extra space dimensions. Quantum mechanics tells us that what is possible will happen. Somewhere in the multi verse beyond our access there is a 'bubble' with more than one time dimension. I wonder what it's like.
Wonder wonder, torn asunder, proof again that we're on this flight together.

Dick

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