THE FIFTH DIMENSION
DURING my lifetime, I’ve witnessed the entire universe shudder briefly as it assumed a fourth dimension. Now it had to be viewed as having length, width, depth and time, the latter recognizing that everything in our universe is rushing headlong at different speeds and in different directions, it being necessary to specify the exact moment in time of a measurement as the next moment it will be different.
A new physics Theory of Everything that continues to intrigue me is that of M-Superstring Theory (MST – entirely different from MBS who, in my humble opinion, may be the occult power behind our contemporary moment-in-time universe). To bring together MST and Super Gravity Theory requires exactly 11-dimensions, that is, seven more than a four-dimensional universe. An interesting effect is the existence of multiple universes (a “multiverse” of universes), something I’ve suggested may be a partial source of the recurrent religious beliefs in a purgatory, heaven and hell. But more of that in another post. Right now, I’m focused on the fifth dimension. What exactly is it? What’s it like?
The fifth dimension is a mathematical abstract that neatly and seamlessly ties together gravity and electromagnetism (or the main fundamental force constantly distorting spacetime) which seem inexplicably separate in regular four-dimensional spacetime. It is said to be an unseeable “micro-dimension.” According to Wikipedia, Kaluza-Klein theory suggests that the fifth dimension “would be rolled up into a tiny, compact loop on the order of 10 to the minus 33 centimeters.” Light, which is visible to humans, is caused by rippling in the higher dimension just beyond human perception, similar to how fish in a pond can only see shadows of ripples across the surface of the water caused by raindrops.
That’s, of course, an attempt at “visualizing” in our human minds a physical-mathematical abstraction far too small for most to imagine. I like to think of it in allegorical terms as today’s Internet of Things, a digital abstraction of everything that exists in our more easily envisioned four-dimensional world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is, by definition, a reflection of all that can exist, either physically or in thought. It is, like the “real” fifth dimension, both infinitesimally small yet enormously large quantitatively speaking. Given the nature and extent of human thought, it is more circular than linear. New products are constantly being generated as contemporary thoughts ripple on its surface just beyond human perception until that defining “Aha!” moment when it crosses over from the IoT to our reality. And, sometimes fortunately, sometimes unfortunately, we typically “see” Platonic shadows projected on the cave wall of reality, the result of the intersections between the two worlds rather than in their fullness in our own sensation-determined reality. Consider, for example, the results in our contemporary “real” world of the concept of the splitting of the atom. In my visualization of the IoT as an allegorical fifth dimension, I can easily imagine not only how it “bubbles” and overflows into our contemporary physical world, but how our actions in our contemporary physical world bubble and overflow into the IoT, the two constantly changing (“updating”?) both reality and its digital reflection.
But there’s a key difference between the physical-mathematical fifth dimension and the IoT. The former exists along with all its side effects because it at least mathematically has to. The latter exists because we’ve made it so. I would ask in closing, does one actually affect the other? Have we finally seized nature and created the underpinnings to yet another, in this case ultimately human, multi-dimensional universe?
Intriguing idea? Check out my newest book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. Taking up where TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese left off, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
A new physics Theory of Everything that continues to intrigue me is that of M-Superstring Theory (MST – entirely different from MBS who, in my humble opinion, may be the occult power behind our contemporary moment-in-time universe). To bring together MST and Super Gravity Theory requires exactly 11-dimensions, that is, seven more than a four-dimensional universe. An interesting effect is the existence of multiple universes (a “multiverse” of universes), something I’ve suggested may be a partial source of the recurrent religious beliefs in a purgatory, heaven and hell. But more of that in another post. Right now, I’m focused on the fifth dimension. What exactly is it? What’s it like?
The fifth dimension is a mathematical abstract that neatly and seamlessly ties together gravity and electromagnetism (or the main fundamental force constantly distorting spacetime) which seem inexplicably separate in regular four-dimensional spacetime. It is said to be an unseeable “micro-dimension.” According to Wikipedia, Kaluza-Klein theory suggests that the fifth dimension “would be rolled up into a tiny, compact loop on the order of 10 to the minus 33 centimeters.” Light, which is visible to humans, is caused by rippling in the higher dimension just beyond human perception, similar to how fish in a pond can only see shadows of ripples across the surface of the water caused by raindrops.
That’s, of course, an attempt at “visualizing” in our human minds a physical-mathematical abstraction far too small for most to imagine. I like to think of it in allegorical terms as today’s Internet of Things, a digital abstraction of everything that exists in our more easily envisioned four-dimensional world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is, by definition, a reflection of all that can exist, either physically or in thought. It is, like the “real” fifth dimension, both infinitesimally small yet enormously large quantitatively speaking. Given the nature and extent of human thought, it is more circular than linear. New products are constantly being generated as contemporary thoughts ripple on its surface just beyond human perception until that defining “Aha!” moment when it crosses over from the IoT to our reality. And, sometimes fortunately, sometimes unfortunately, we typically “see” Platonic shadows projected on the cave wall of reality, the result of the intersections between the two worlds rather than in their fullness in our own sensation-determined reality. Consider, for example, the results in our contemporary “real” world of the concept of the splitting of the atom. In my visualization of the IoT as an allegorical fifth dimension, I can easily imagine not only how it “bubbles” and overflows into our contemporary physical world, but how our actions in our contemporary physical world bubble and overflow into the IoT, the two constantly changing (“updating”?) both reality and its digital reflection.
But there’s a key difference between the physical-mathematical fifth dimension and the IoT. The former exists along with all its side effects because it at least mathematically has to. The latter exists because we’ve made it so. I would ask in closing, does one actually affect the other? Have we finally seized nature and created the underpinnings to yet another, in this case ultimately human, multi-dimensional universe?
Intriguing idea? Check out my newest book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. Taking up where TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese left off, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
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