Reply #12: Wandering thought. [View All]

[Ready4Change]

I just like thought games like this. I've read a couple of (lightweight) physics books, one on string theory, some Feynman, etc... (And yes, I've stayed at a Holiday Inn. :) )

Anyway, as I understand it, many theories say that the universe, in it's very first moments, had no dimensions, or even, perhaps, time. That, as the universe exploded, our 3 spacial and 1 time dimensions "unfolded", and, around the same time, many of the laws that govern the universe got set in stone, or plasma, as the case might have been.

Now the thought occurs to me: There is absolutely no reason to think that process has stopped. Dimensions unfolded, rules got established, matter began coalescing, as the universe expanded and it's heat, it's energy, got spread out. By all (scientific) accounts, the universe is STILL expanding. If so, there's no reason to think that a 5th or more dimensions aren't getting ready to unfold.

We may be ants, walking about on a seemingly endless, flat table top, who are about to encounter a vertical wall, and have no idea what to make of it.

(Or, perhaps, the older measurements, made with older, less accurate instruments, were simply off.)