Sunday, May 23, 2010

Echo Dimensionality

The math behind string theory defines a world with eleven dimension. The dimensions we are familiar with are height, width, depth and time. This theory posits seven additional dimensions and describes the higher dimensions as micro dimensions that are wrapped around the more conventional dimensions. There's more to this than just this of course, but in a pinch this explanation will do.

It is regarding these micro dimensions that I have been thinking, allowing my imagination to run around a bit, and although I don't know all the mathematics behind them, it occurs to me that each of these micro dimensions behave as almost a vibration in each of the more conventional dimensions. An example of what I'm thinking can be represented by dropping a pebble at a 90 degree angle to a pool of water. As the pebble is falling, it is moving in the Y-axis of our old friend, the Cartesian coordinate system. When the pebble impacts the water, rings are produced in the pool, along the Z-axis and X-axis and are a function of movement along the Y-axis. There does not need to be any lateral movement to produce a lateral effect. This is similar to the effect that each dimension has on reality, only there is a implied directionality alluded to.

The extra dimensions aren't so much micro dimensions wrapped around the conventional dimensions smaller than we can ever perceive, instead they are actually a function of the conventional dimensions that effect a wobble in the conventional dimensions that resemble extra dimensions and fit the math, but are actually just functional echoes created by the addition of a time factor. The are a reflection of the conventional dimensions that fit the math, but don't actually exist any more than the Tooth Fairy.