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I found this link to be rather thought-inspiring.

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash.php

Which shows you a way to imagine 10 different dimensions. Though string theory says there could be up to 26 dimensions, some of them immeasurably small, so this just confuses the hell out of my just-somewhat-above-mediocre mind.

I can't really sit here and analyse that link, but from what I saw it sounds like a bunch of bullshit that some Donnie Darko fan came up with after watching the film while high.

String theory, or more accurately M-theory, currently suggests there are ten spacial dimensions and one time dimension. The seven dimensions we cannot see are considered to be extremely small (planck length) and curled around a Calabi-Yau shape. With these extra dimensions, it's not so much a matter of seeing them as it is seeing the effect of their existence. The extra dimensions allow strings to vibrate in the correct number of patterns to allow for the types and states of matter we know today (as well as several we don't know of). At the time of the big bang, all dimensions were circular and planck length but during the inflation the three dimensions we are familiar with were able to expand due to string/anti-string collisions.

That was interesting. And yet I'm still not satisfied. It seems that every few years they tend to add a little more to these types of theories, but where does it end? I really can't see ourselves ever finding the absolute truth to everything before we destroy ourselves or some outside source (such as a meteor) does the same.

using that logic we never shouldve invented the wheel

fucking wheels

I typed up a real response and no one noticed.

bitWISE wrote:String theory, or more accurately M-theory, currently suggests there are ten spacial dimensions and one time dimension. The seven dimensions we cannot see are considered to be extremely small (planck length) and curled around a Calabi-Yau shape. With these extra dimensions, it's not so much a matter of seeing them as it is seeing the effect of their existence. The extra dimensions allow strings to vibrate in the correct number of patterns to allow for the types and states of matter we know today (as well as several we don't know of). At the time of the big bang, all dimensions were circular and planck length but during the inflation the three dimensions we are familiar with were able to expand due to string/anti-string collisions.

I can't really sit here and analyse that link, but from what I saw it sounds like a bunch of bullshit that some Donnie Darko fan came up with after watching the film while high.

fascinating

losCHUNK wrote:fascinating

:lub:

Good link! My mind started to hurt at 7, but 8 and 9 made sense. 10 hurt again.

I also just read The Elegant Universe.

Argh!
They lost me at 5

Deji wrote:I found this link to be rather thought-inspiring.

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash.php

Which shows you a way to imagine 10 different dimensions. Though string theory says there could be up to 26 dimensions, some of them immeasurably small, so this just confuses the hell out of my just-somewhat-above-mediocre mind.

nice presentation, if completely mind-bending

Deji wrote:I found this link to be rather thought-inspiring.

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash.php

Which shows you a way to imagine 10 different dimensions. Though string theory says there could be up to 26 dimensions, some of them immeasurably small, so this just confuses the hell out of my just-somewhat-above-mediocre mind.

Not the best pic. But do you think this could be from another dimension?

Pete wrote:

Deji wrote:I found this link to be rather thought-inspiring.

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash.php

Which shows you a way to imagine 10 different dimensions. Though string theory says there could be up to 26 dimensions, some of them immeasurably small, so this just confuses the hell out of my just-somewhat-above-mediocre mind.

Not the best pic. But do you think this could be from another dimension?

Optical illusions aren't for other dimensions.

edit: they're eye-tricks in our 3 dimensions.

Wizard .3 wrote:

Pete wrote:

Deji wrote:I found this link to be rather thought-inspiring.

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash.php

Which shows you a way to imagine 10 different dimensions. Though string theory says there could be up to 26 dimensions, some of them immeasurably small, so this just confuses the hell out of my just-somewhat-above-mediocre mind.

Not the best pic. But do you think this could be from another dimension?

Optical illusions aren't for other dimensions.

edit: they're eye-tricks in our 3 dimensions.

Isn't that a start?

Flameboy The Great wrote:

Wizard .3 wrote:

Pete wrote:
Not the best pic. But do you think this could be from another dimension?

Optical illusions aren't for other dimensions.

edit: they're eye-tricks in our 3 dimensions.

Isn't that a start?

Maybe.. or you're making this more complicated than it really is.

No wait, you're right. Pete just found a direct link to the 7th dimension!! :icon29:

Wizard .3 wrote:

Flameboy The Great wrote:

Wizard .3 wrote:Optical illusions aren't for other dimensions.

edit: they're eye-tricks in our 3 dimensions.

Isn't that a start?

Maybe.. or you're making this more complicated than it really is.

No wait, you're right. Pete just found a direct link to the 7th dimension!! :icon29:

I didn't mean it that way but yes, it is.
Life as we know it is not just a magnificient some 26 dimensions things away, that'd be too simple.
Think of your best recioe with all the saisonnings you have to add to it and of the perfect temp. to do it.
Then think about what has happenned to all of us.....
We are may be a type of a milkshake but only GOD knows the right recipe.

bitWISE wrote:String theory, or more accurately M-theory, currently suggests there are ten spacial dimensions and one time dimension. The seven dimensions we cannot see are considered to be extremely small (planck length) and curled around a Calabi-Yau shape. With these extra dimensions, it's not so much a matter of seeing them as it is seeing the effect of their existence. The extra dimensions allow strings to vibrate in the correct number of patterns to allow for the types and states of matter we know today (as well as several we don't know of). At the time of the big bang, all dimensions were circular and planck length but during the inflation the three dimensions we are familiar with were able to expand due to string/anti-string collisions.

I can't really sit here and analyse that link, but from what I saw it sounds like a bunch of bullshit that some Donnie Darko fan came up with after watching the film while high.

What now with the M-theory when I don't even understand the String theory, what's next....The G string theory?

Flameboy The Great wrote:

bitWISE wrote:String theory, or more accurately M-theory, currently suggests there are ten spacial dimensions and one time dimension. The seven dimensions we cannot see are considered to be extremely small (planck length) and curled around a Calabi-Yau shape. With these extra dimensions, it's not so much a matter of seeing them as it is seeing the effect of their existence. The extra dimensions allow strings to vibrate in the correct number of patterns to allow for the types and states of matter we know today (as well as several we don't know of). At the time of the big bang, all dimensions were circular and planck length but during the inflation the three dimensions we are familiar with were able to expand due to string/anti-string collisions.

I can't really sit here and analyse that link, but from what I saw it sounds like a bunch of bullshit that some Donnie Darko fan came up with after watching the film while high.

What now with the M-theory when I don't even understand the String theory, what's next....The G string theory?

M-theory is simply the combination of the five types of string theory and they didn't know what to call it yet.

...they didn't know what to call it yet.

Yes they did, they called it M-theory.

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bitWISE wrote:String theory, or more accurately M-theory, currently suggests there are ten spacial dimensions and one time dimension. The seven dimensions we cannot see are considered to be extremely small (planck length) and curled around a Calabi-Yau shape. With these extra dimensions, it's not so much a matter of seeing them as it is seeing the effect of their existence. The extra dimensions allow strings to vibrate in the correct number of patterns to allow for the types and states of matter we know today (as well as several we don't know of). At the time of the big bang, all dimensions were circular and planck length but during the inflation the three dimensions we are familiar with were able to expand due to string/anti-string collisions.

I can't really sit here and analyse that link, but from what I saw it sounds like a bunch of bullshit that some Donnie Darko fan came up with after watching the film while high.

I didn't watch, but are you saying string, or M-theory, is the bullshit, or what the link talks about is bullshit.

tnf wrote:

bitWISE wrote:String theory, or more accurately M-theory, currently suggests there are ten spacial dimensions and one time dimension. The seven dimensions we cannot see are considered to be extremely small (planck length) and curled around a Calabi-Yau shape. With these extra dimensions, it's not so much a matter of seeing them as it is seeing the effect of their existence. The extra dimensions allow strings to vibrate in the correct number of patterns to allow for the types and states of matter we know today (as well as several we don't know of). At the time of the big bang, all dimensions were circular and planck length but during the inflation the three dimensions we are familiar with were able to expand due to string/anti-string collisions.

I can't really sit here and analyse that link, but from what I saw it sounds like a bunch of bullshit that some Donnie Darko fan came up with after watching the film while high.

I didn't watch, but are you saying string, or M-theory, is the bullshit, or what the link talks about is bullshit.

I'm saying the link is bullshit and I'm doing my best at describing what scientists actually believe. I should flip the order of those paragraphs around.

SCIENTISTS DON'T BELIEVE!!

This unique book touches upon such diverse topics as Feynman's "sum over paths" approach, quantum indeterminacy, and the soul.

The soul?

They lost me at 5, but up until then, I was able to follow. It's just so hard to imagine it, though...