Rules Of Outer Dimensions

The late astronomer/writer Carl Sagan did a lot to introduce the public to the way in which dimensions operate. Let's take the concept further. I have worked out some ground rules for dimensions of space, whether our familiar three or those beyond.

DISTANCES IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS

In a world of more dimensions than we have now, everything would occupy more space and we would travel further to go anywhere. In a universe composed of an infinity of dimensions, it would take forever, at any speed, to get anywhere for a being of finite dimensions.

I have found that the Pythagorean Theorem works in higher-dimensional space. Consider blocks of space where each dimension is of one meter in length. If we travel one meter in a one-dimensional block of space, we get all the way across. If we travel the same one meter in a two-dimensional block of space, we get only .707 of the way across. If we travel one meter in a three-dimensional block of space, we get only half the way across.

PROOF OF STRING THEORY

From my point of view, string theory just has too much going for it to not contain some truth. As I have desribed in postings on this topic, the multitude of particles that exist only for an instant all around us violate all the laws of physics. Unless they are strings outside our dimensions that share one dimension with us.

If we share one dimension with a string, it will appear to us as a particle that exists for a brief instant. If we share two dimensions with a string, it will appear to us as a particle moving at the speed of light and if we share three dimensions with it, it will share our time perspective. For an illustration of the sharing of one dimension, imagine a room with two paintings on perpendicular walls that share only the height dimension.

These instantaneous particles provide quite a bit of proof of string theory or superstrings. If we were composed of particles in space, as was supposed back in conventional physics, we should have no limits on seeing into or moving into all of the dimensions that there are. But if we are composed of strings, it not only explains what time is and solves many other of the great mysteries of the universe, as I have explained, it also explains why there are dimensions that we cannot access due to the way our strings are aligned in multi-dimensional space.

WE ARE THREE-DIMENSIONAL

Albert Einstein pointed out that we inhabit three dimensions of space. This means that if another three-dimensional object shares three spatial dimensions with us, it must also share our time direction. We can be sure that an object, such as a rock, is also a three-dimensional object and not one of higher dimensions of which we can only see three dimensions because if it was of more than three, it's atoms would be suddenly appearing and vanishing.

Also, a higher-dimensional object in our universe would manifest more gravity without more matter density and would be affected by gravity in it's unseen dimensions. The reason that we, and the universe around us, have three spatial dimensions is very simple. It is the matter dispersion pattern of the Big Bang. It threw the strings of matter composing us and our universe in one main direction, which we perceive as time, and three lateral dimensions.

This means that we could not possibly access other dimensions because none of our matter extends into those dimensions. It also shows us why the universe appears to be expanding, when strings of matter are thrown outward from a point, it must appear to be expanding for a being whose time direction is outward from the point of origin.

A simple way to test how many dimensions one consists of is to picture throwing a handful of sand into the air. If a three-dimensional being is throwing the sand, it will inevitably form a temporary three-dimensional throw pattern in the air. If a two-dimensional being threw the sand, it would form a cloud in the air of two dimensions. Likewise for one-dimensional or eighty-dimensional beings.

ACCESSING OTHER DIMENSIONS

Since there are clearly strings in space that do not share our dimensions, either there must have been more Big Bangs to produce the strings or, ours must have been more complex than is apparent to us in our simplistic universe of four dimensions, one of which we perceive as time.

Waves created by strings are only visible in the same dimensional plane as the string that created the waves. In other words, for us to actually see an object, it must share our dimensions.

Contrary to an opinion that I have read, accelerating a spaceship to the speed of light would not enable it to access or view other dimensions. No matter how powerful of an explosion there might be in our dimensions, it could not possibly push an object into other dimensions simply because dimensionality must be conserved. A force generated within a given block of dimensions can never affect anything outside those dimensions. If we could send an object right out of the visible universe, it still would not be in other dimensions.

While playing baseball as a child, I recall another kid stating that he was going to "knock the ball into another dimension". The problem is that in physics, forces operate in straight lines. If the force that hit the ball came from a certain block of dimensions, the ball could be hit from any conceivable angle but must remain within the same dimensions from which the force originated.

Getting to dimensions beyond our own is not a matter of force at all. There must be a multitude of dimensions all around us. But since any force we can generate must originate within the dimensions we inhabit, we cannot reach into or push anything into these other dimensions. Since waves exist in the same plane as the strings that created them, we cannot see into these dimensions.

Yet, strings that share one dimension with us and appear to us as instantaneous particles must create slight waves and gravity in our dimensional block or we would not be able to detect them. The way we could possible see into outer dimensions is to find ways to measure and manipulate these particles.