Could we Live in a Universe with Fewer than Three Dimensions?
No, I am not a flat-earther. Quite the contrary, the ideas suggested here assume advanced scientific knowledge, such as quantum physics. The famous Cambridge-based physicist Stephen Hawking suggested that we may live in a universe with 11 dimensions. What I discuss here is not conflicting with that statement, as we shall see.?
It all started one night, going outside for a walk. I have a problem with one of my eyes: a difficulty transitioning from dark to bright light. During the unusually long transition period, I experienced vision flickering in that eye. It is almost like watching a video, if the screen refreshing rate was 10 times per second, rather than 20: images do not appear in a continuum, and the eye notices the individual frames flickering. I then read that dogs and cats have a much sharper vision, and when watching a video made for human beings, they see the individual frames because their brain (as far as image processing is concerned) have a much higher refresh frequency, see?here. Actually, there are some programs and TV sets designed specifically for dogs, with a higher refresh rate to avoid the problem.?
Then I started to wonder if some other creatures have an even higher refresh rate for images. And from that point on, I started to ponder the following question: what if the reality itself consists of frames, not a time continuum, but discrete snapshots occurring with an incredibly high, yet finite frequency. This is like saying that infinity or continuum does not exist in nature, but is only an artificial construct or a perception of the brain (human or dog), or in other words, something similar to an optical illusion.??
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3 年Liu Cixin’s 3-Body Problem sci-fi trilogy has the best description in the 3rd book, I’ve read of what the loss of a spatial dimension would look like and result in, and how one might escape it. I won’t describe because it is plot-significant, but is worth reading. Not particularly theological or philosophical, but interesting and well conceived.
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3 年The void and spatial discretion need to be evaluated with the reference frames of changing flux strength of electromagnetic field of significantly varying intensities. Voids would have a different magnetic vector and discrete spatial references could be positive vectors intuitively but with drops in strength and subtle changes in vector direction at infinitesimally small intervals of both spatial and time coordinates of a series. Essentially, dimensions as the mathematical world know as of now dissolve and do not exist contextually thereby precluding the discrete assumptions of dimensions in our discussion. For all I know, we have fluids; perpetual magnetic fluids that pervade all of spatial discretionary coordinates as well as the so-called voids of "dropped density". And creating a framework of defining these fields objectively with the attributes of a definitive flux is the next threshold of our ever deepening understanding of creation in all its splendor.
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3 年Madeleine L'Engle suggested as much in *A Wrinkle in Time* - but not for humans.
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3 年Why does it matter, if there are dimensions, voids, or any number of other attributes of perceptions; if they exist in reality as we perceive them or not? Without a doubt our perceptions are not factual and we know that to be true, from our individual differences and conflicts of views. I have mentioned this in a paper that I presented in 2011 that humanity is composed of societal-self and the societal space-time rather than the physical spacetime and the biological self. Once this difference is understood, it might be easier to leave the physical-self and the physical universe alone except to travel across those entities, ecosystems and maintain a symbiotic relationships. Aren't the collaborations and the co-operations among the humans more vital than mere speculations of what might or might not be the case? Ought it not be obvious that everything is dynamic and everchanging and what we perceive today may not be forever? QFT (Quantum Field Dynamics) has made this abundantly clear, if it was not so before that.