I have obviously no science backing this, just a green what-if moment. It is a popular scientific belief that there are alternate dimensions. Not everyone subscribes to it but enough do that it has become a well known theory, with alternating definitions depending on who one is asking. What if the dimensions interact from time to time in ways unknown to us. Call it wormholes, after images, energy patterns, whatever. The main point being, the dimensions interact. This can be either randomly, or when specific events happen that trigger the interaction. If it is specific events that trigger it, what if we figure out how to do it ourselves? What could this look like to us then if witnessed? Could this explain a lot of paranormal phenomena across the ages? Like seeing "ghosts" or objects moving oddly? Even alien sightings? (Yes, a lot of those people are simply nuts, humor me )
Hmm interesting, ill throw crop circles into this. What is the dimensions literally interacted from time to time, as in across time, an event NOW having an effect on the past?
Speaking in terms of dimensions greater than the 4 we perceive is almost futile. Although, if there are other dimensions I'm almost certain they'd interact in some way. Such as the first, second, and third dimensions as we know them interact with each other to create out perception of space. Right?
Mind... BLOWN.. cheers guys At a thought, the criteria for these "specific events would possibly be to broad to narrow it down to one. Heres another one.. how come they are classed as "dimensions" when it is something that has happened for all of time. Wouldnt that then mean the thought of several dimensions is just created by imagination? In all reality, ('scuse the pun) all these happenings are just based in the "one" dimension that we exist in.
Dimensions as in parallel universes. That's my bad. Poor choice of words. For some reason I keep thinking of Dimension X from old school TMNT, hence the diction.
Oh thats what you meant? I thought you just meant a hyperdimension of some sort. As far as why they are called dimensions, i suppose its just one way to break reality down to understand it. "...when it has happened for all of time" Well time is a dimension, its how we distinguish between now (when im writing this) and then (when you wrote that). Physicists and mathematicians use dimensions (or degrees of freedom) do model our reality. I have heard (although havent looked to verify) that some are considering reworking physics without the assumption or need for dimensionality. Im glad you asked that because i wanted to investigate that.
I suspected our use of the word would differ slightly. So you can have your dimensions thread and I'll go make my own! I kid If your are supposing that worm holes, for example, are examples of alternate dimensions interacting, wouldn't it also be possible that we can't understand that phenomena due to the fact that it is a property of the 5th dimension but we only exist in 4 that we know? To me that makes more sense than "parallel dimensions" "interacting in ways unknown to us."
Oh, I genuinely have no idea. I was merely pondering if parallel universes were to exist, as many believe, then could it not be that they interact from time to time, and what would that possibly look like? If they are in fact overlapping then a certain "proximity" is assumed. Could connections not be made, small and large, accidental and controlled? I wasn't so much concerned with the actual 3-5 dimensions, although I could easily see that playing a part as well. My main train of thought was: Let's assume parallel universes exist, as many do. If that is the case, can we say with certainty they have no way of interacting? If they do, then what would that look like if observed by us? If event A in universe A interacts with object B in universe B, wouldn't that perhaps appear paranormal to anyone observing the interaction on either end?
I would think if they interact it would be on such a relatively (to us) long time scale it would be imperceptible, apart from perhaps ultra sensitive instruments.
I could see that, or the exact opposite, or both. They could interact on large, evolutionary time span scale, or on tiny microsecond scales, or on anything in between. Perhaps, altering the size of a galaxy in universe A with events from universe B would take eons, but causing a small gust of wind in universe A with events from universe B takes a minute. Considering this is sheer speculation and we have no clue if this is even an occurrence, it seems plausible that until we know more it could occur any number of ways.
I think the idea of dimensions if overthought. Different dimensions are simply different possibilities. An energy can be above, below, in front of, and even before or after another energy. When string theorists talk about dimensions above the 4th, they are merely talking about other states energy can be in. It might help to imagine we live in the matrix. Time and space are not real. They are a construct of our minds trying to observe energy interactions. We label up down forward back left right before and after, but is that really all there is? -yuri
In relativity theory, space is dynamical and can hence be warped and curved by matter. But, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by extra dimensions interacting. Space can only be affected by matter and fields, and for dimensions of space (or time) to interact requires some kind of a particle that mediates the interaction, which is impossible for a space devoid of matter and fields.
that's assuming dimensions are other places. I think of quantum physics as a web. Whenever something moves, its relation to other energy in the web changes. We percieve this as movement through a dimension (up down left right or even before and after) Quantum entanglement proves particles can interact instantly and independently of both space and time. This proves that our perception of dimensions is merely a mental construction. All energy exists simultaneously and so do all possibilities. Only when an observer reads the weave and interacts with it, do relative dimensions become important. I believe dark matter could just be the same matter we see now, but future and past versions of it. If gravity transcends space and time, dark matter would make perfect sense -yuri
Yeah.. I think empty space is actually a misnomer, in terms of it actually being empty. More like it is devoid of energy that we can observe, but not actually empty.
If the two did interact the process could take millions of years. like the milky way-andromeda intertwinement
And it sure isnt devoid of fields! I thought he may have been referring to a hypothetical boundry between universes. Also, Hendrik Casimir demonstrated that there is measureable energy.