Somebody stole my theory
Robert Calvert wrote:
About a year or two ago, I decided to engage in a little speculation and
suggested (on NPR's Science Friday forum) that dark matter might be the
result of other matter in adjacent universes interacting gravitationally
with matter in our own universe. Lo and behold, I just heard on the last
Science Friday show that "many people" are speculating about this very same
possibility. It can't be a coincidence.
Just for the fun of it, maybe I should present another theory for them to
steal.
Lately, I've been wondering if the multiverse is really just the 5th
dimension. Obviously, we have the three spatial dimensions that we're all
familiar with. Then, there's the time dimension. But first, let's take a
look at a few of the characteristics that the first four dimensions all have
in common.
*All these dimensions can accommodate multiples of all the lower dimensions
within itself.
*All the lower dimensions are connected in some ways and not connected in
others through the higher dimensions.
*All cause and effect relationships would be obvious to a being confined to
it's respective dimension so long as all physical phenomena were confined to
said dimension or to the one(s) below it.
*Cause and effect relationships would not be so obvious if they weren't.
Doesn't this describe the multiverse from the perspective of the universe
that we understand? If so, it seems reasonable enough to conclude that the
multiverse is really just a realm that extends at right angles to time and
all three spatial dimensions. As for what comes after # 5 - beats me.
Robert
#6.
Then at right angles to that........ #7!
Then at right angles to that........ #8!
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