Why did God create the Universe and everything in it, including man, using only four dimensions?

Question

Scientists now tell us that the universe is flat, and that it is possible that it contains up to eleven dimensions! See Stephan Hawking's book, 'A Brief History of Time'

Answer 1

Actually, the universe contains 12 dimensions, google "M Theory".
Where did you get the idea that scientists are saying the universe is flat? I have never read this anywhere.

Answer 2

Operationally, we still live only in 4, the other potential 7 are folded up in a different manner (heck, even our familiar four, three spacial and one temporal, have opposite signs in the equations).

Any fewer than three spacial dimensions and you would have insufficient complexity for the formation of sentient life or even meaningful computations. Any more than three and stable orbits become impossible.

Any fewer than one temporal dimension and there can be no change, any more than one and you have a situation of multicausality and non-causality, which means no stable existence is possible.

3+1 is exactly required for the formation of self-aware structures.

That we live in a 3+1 however, is no proof for a deity or of creation -- we exist in a 3+1 simply because we could only exist in a 3+1 ... if this universe were 2+1 or 3+2 or 3+0 or 5+3 or whatever, we wouldn't exist to know we couldn't exist in those types of universe.

Answer 3

Stephen Hawking uses imaginary numbers to re-work the big bang theory so that the universe no longer has a definite beginning. I assume because the big bang theory, as is, bears too close a resemblance to the words "Let there be light".

There is a lot of uncertainty out there about the nature of the universe and why we are here. The question itself speaks volumes about our innate sense that we are more than a random convergence of cosmic particles.

We owe it to ourselves to keep seeking for the truth, even if that truth is not popular or easy. Truth is truth and never changes.

Answer 4

Interesting, I enjoy watching Stephan Hawking on TV, saw a couple of programs with him on talking about Black Holes. I don't know why God created the universe the way He did. I think He has lots of exciting things for us to discover. One day you can ask Him.

Answer 5

Say what?
If the universe contains up to eleven dimensions, then I would assume that God (if He exists) created it with eleven dimensions...
(The flat universe is a misunderstanding of string theory)

Answer 6

Stephan Hawking is a brilliant man but if he thinks it is eleven dimensions, he'd better start looking for the twelfth one. God likes twelve. Twelve disciples. Twelve Patriarchs.

Answer 7

It wasn't a scientist who said the Universe was flat. It was an economist and he was referring to instant communications. Get your facts right.

Answer 8

Maybe he was feeling peevish. Still, I recommend reading anything by Rudy Rucker that involves dimensional reality before going further. While I admire Hawking's work, he's still just a mortal like us.

Answer 9

You are contradicting yourself. In the question, you are presuming four dimensions. In the explanation, eleven. Are you really asking a question at all?

Answer 10

Scientists? You mean, the same guys who foist the myth of evolution on us generation after generation in spite of the physical evidence to the contrary? That's really funny, but don't quit your day job just yet.