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Understanding Dimensions

May 23 2007 Published by Vincenzo Carabillo' under dimensions, Einstein, Physics, Psychology, Quantum

Have you ever visualized a universe in 4 physical dimensions? Don’t take "time" as a dimension by now, and let’s concentrate on something physical. I would say that for the average human imagination 4 dimensions are too many.
Maybe it could help to imagine a rational entity in a two-dimensional world that faces for the first time another entity from a three-dimensional world; take a look to the following interesting video from the discussed film "What the bleep do we know":

In this video, something like a 2d pacman meets a 3d person. It is interesting to notice how the pacman does not have any possibility to see the 3d person, and how the person could see and access everything in the world of pacman.

Now… how could a person from an imaginary 4th spatial dimension interact with our world? Could more dimensions solve the problems that the old physics theory does not understand? Is the universe in 10, 11, or 26 dimensions like it is suggested in the strings theory?

Another interesting point would be a discussion about the spacetime: the three spacial dimensions are strictly coupled with time, as strictly that the spacial and timing dimensions can interact each other. This is also something out of the normal human experience that opens the door to many other thoughts.

Reality can be much more complex than what we can experience. Many thousand of years ago our predecessors have seen lightnings in the skies, and though that it was a sign of a divinity being hungry with them. We shouldn’t do the same errors, and keep our mind open to new truths.

Anybody willing to go beyond Einstein, maybe through quantum mechanics?

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A Brief History of Time

Mar 26 2007 Published by Vincenzo Carabillo' under Hawking, Life, Physics

I would like to feed your curiosity now with something about physics:

"Black holes are places where space and time come to an end, and the matter is crushed out of existence. If we could understand how time comes to an end in black holes, it could help us understand how time started in Big Bang."Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time Where and how did time start? Did time ever start? Where does the universe come from? Does this question have any meaning?

Sometimes I think that there must be a cause for everything. Probably we will be never able to fully understand this world, because we can see only a projection of the universe.

The humanity won’t probably live enough in this planet to survive to those questions. This debate can probably help us to remember that we all are small drops of an ocean of life. As human beings we have the power of thoughts; unfortunately history proved that we aren’t clever enough to use our brilliant intelligence to protect and develop life on our planet.

I am convinced that we should try to picture ourself and our hearth as a unique living entity. We, our parents, our children, and all the life around us is a unique ring in the chain of life.

I am lost in my thoughts!

From Amazon: Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we’re looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists’ search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can’t help but marvel at Hawking’s ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God."

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