In an infinite Universe: Everything is possible

[magnifier661]

You can't leave the surface. The shape is a metaphor to allow you to visualize how it works.

If the universe were a lot smaller, you could look straight ahead and see the back of your head.

That's a fucking trip man! Hahahahaha. So they got this how? Did they record Hubble images facing west; then at the same moment record exactly opposite? Then they discovered that they saw the other side of the same solar system or something?

 

[Denny Crane]

It is only a theory. Even if the universe is finite in size, there is not enough time, period, for light to travel the 13.7B light years to the back of your head, bounce off, and then return to your eyes.

 

[Denny Crane]

There sure appears to be 4 dimensions, at least. The three we're familiar with, plus time.

Your car and mine can be located in the same physical space and not collide if you are there at 1AM and I am there at 1PM.

 

[Eastoff]

There sure appears to be 4 dimensions, at least. The three we're familiar with, plus time.

Your car and mine can be located in the same physical space and not collide if you are there at 1AM and I am there at 1PM.

One can imagine the surface of the donut as a 5th dimension that we don't know how to leave.

 

[magnifier661]

There sure appears to be 4 dimensions, at least. The three we're familiar with, plus time.

Your car and mine can be located in the same physical space and not collide if you are there at 1AM and I am there at 1PM.

I wonder if time travel is actually even possible. I guess what I mean is could something or someone be able to cut through the physical dimension of the universe and observe things that happened in the same place but from a time long ago? Not that you could be physically there and change things; but just observe.

 

[Eastoff]

I wonder if time travel is actually even possible. I guess what I mean is could something or someone be able to cut through the physical dimension of the universe and observe things that happened in the same place but from a time long ago? Not that you could be physically there and change things; but just observe.

here eat up!

 

[Denny Crane]

Time travel seems technically possible. But any technique we might employ might take the energy of many stars to achieve.

I also think there's an answer to the grandfather paradox (you go back in time and kill your grandfather, how can you now exist?).

There is an infinite number of parallel tracks of time. Each time some event happens, even on the minutest level, a new branch of time is created to move forward. If you kill your grandfather, that becomes a different branch of time where you really don't exist.

That's a brief description of it, anyway.

 

[magnifier661]

After reading the link; wouldn't it be crazy if by some time in the old future; our own solarsystem had a civilization evolve to a point that they were able to achieve this ability; go back in time and program DNA to evolve in the way we are right now?

 

[Eastoff]

After reading the link; wouldn't it be crazy if by some time in the old future; our own solarsystem had a civilization evolve to a point that they were able to achieve this ability; go back in time and program DNA to evolve in the way we are right now?

That is one of my recent favorite paranormal theories. Aliens are time travelers from our future.

 

[magnifier661]

That is one of my recent favorite paranormal theories. Aliens are time travelers from our future.

Hahaha that would be crazy! Kinda sucks though cause I'm damn handsome and they are some ugly muthers man. Sucks that we could evolve into some extremely ugly beings.

 

[BlazerWookee]

One can imagine the surface of the donut as a 5th dimension that we don't know how to leave.

So 1/4 of the surface of the donut is Marylin McCoo?

 

[jlprk]

You picture dimensions much better on acid. In the years after my last trip had ended, I wrote 2000 pages about my theory of dimensions. It explains every problem you study in the physics and philosophy majors.

Examples: How can physics say that photons are massless? Because they are 2-dimensional.
What is the solution to philosophy's mind-body problem? The brain is a 3D antenna to the multi-D mind.
What is physics' frame of reference? A zero-D geometric point.
What is Plato's shadows in the cave story about? Being reduced to 2-D.

 

[magnifier661]

You picture dimensions much better on acid. In the years after my last trip had ended, I wrote 2000 pages about my theory of dimensions. It explains every problem you study in the physics and philosophy majors.

Examples: How can physics say that photons are massless? Because they are 2-dimensional.
What is the solution to philosophy's mind-body problem? The brain is a 3D antenna to the multi-D mind.
What is physics' frame of reference? A zero-D geometric point.
What is Plato's shadows in the cave story about? Being reduced to 2-D.

I would be really interested in reading that!

 

[Eastoff]

Examples: How can physics say that photons are massless? Because they are 2-dimensional.

I'm not sure who told you photons are two dimensional, but that is incorrect.

 

[jlprk]

I read that they are massless, and in 1971 I hypothesized that they were 2-dimensional. Right after my 1st trip and reading Abbott's book Flatland, which anyone interested in dimensions should begin with. So I never read that. I made it up. More recently, scientists have assigned a very tiny mass to the formerly massless particles.

As for reading my 2000 pages, Mags, I need someone to help me compile it into a book. Someone who works for free and has at least a year.

 

[magnifier661]

As for reading my 2000 pages, Mags, I need someone to help me compile it into a book. Someone who works for free and has at least a year.

What is your purpose of such a book? Are you planning on publishing this book?