What is your theory on parallel universes or other dimensions?

Answer 1

Nice thought provoking question. Star for you.

I've never really thought about other universes, or really tried much to understand ours. I supose if ours exists, there should be no reason for others not to.

As for dimensions.. the first 4 are rather undisputed in my opinion:
length
length X width
length X width X depth
length X width X depth X time
As for more than that, I'm not quite sure we can stay in the same reasoning pattern. I've read theories on other dimentions, and its all very fascinating. You're asking for MY theory though.

I think the world is not how we see it. I think our conciousness shapes the world we see. Take the example of a witness in testimony. Their story will be different than the person who stood next to them at the scene.

Have you ever saw someone who you could have sworn you knew, but when you came closer it was a complete stranger? Also notice that they didn't really look like the person you thought they were? There was something about that person that you saw that triggered your brain to show you your friend. You were not really seeing that person, but your mind playing a "movie" of your friend. I think this is true in how we see all of life.

I like Plato's alegory of the cave, and think it illustrates this well. I'll try to sum it up as best I can. (I hate when people assume you know what the heck they're talking about)
. In the far end of the cave are some people who are chained to stare at the cave wall and cannot look in any other direction. Behind them is a pathway, and beyond that a fire. These people have never been told about the fire, the pathway, or of any other people. The fire creates shadows on the wall. All these people know is the wall with its flickering shadows.
These people will make what they will of the flickering shadows, either trying to recognize them, accept them as they are, or attach mythological concepts to them. If one of these people were to be turned around to face the path and the fire by someone else, at first they would protest. The light of the fire and the solidity of the people would confuse and frighten them. After a while this person would grow accustom to their new reality.
Now the person has an opportunity to talk to his old friends who still face the flickering, fire-lighted wall. These people have no concept of what people or fire look like. His words would seem foreign and he would have no way of describing things except through symbols. The wall-lookers would think him crazy and not accept what he had to say. Even though the people and fire are more real than their reality, they still would be hard pressed to accept this.
After his discussion not going so well, this person is taken near the mouth of the cave. From here he observes the sun rise and set as well as the cave’s opening. If this person is moved yet again, this time fully out of the cave, he will have even more understanding of reality and the shadowy impressions upon the wall will seem far and distant.


how does this relate to dimensions? Well, all the realities exist to thoes people, and all exist at the same time. All are not accurate and fully encompasing of what is truely happening though. Lets say the flickering shadow people are equvilant to one dimentional. fire to second dimention, and so on. All are the true and correct reality to their observers, but not completely true to the whole.


I'm not sure if any of that made sence.. ah well.

Answer 2

Well I think most people confuse the two terms. Dimensions such as height, width, and length are directly observable to us in three dimensional space if you consider time to be a dimension - since none of the others would be meaningful without a rate of change, then we can say that the continua of space-time has at least 4 dimensions.

Recently as a way to create a Theory of Everything or a Grand Unified Theory as Einstein was trying to develop just before he passed away, many great thinkers have begun to try to create universe models that allow for many additional dimensions which are kind of "rolled-up" and which variously describe the four basic forces or explain the theoretical missing mass of the universe or variously explain how quantum strings or quantum loop gravity or various other cosmologies fit with what we currently understand as the laws of physics...

One of the cosmological theories seem to suggest that many universes exist. Other views refute the multi-verse theory.

While I have my own ideas about which ideas I would bet on being most likely - the truth is that nobody knows which is true.

Answer 3

Well there is a 10-dimensional theory I subscribe to, which necessitates the existence of gravitons, and thus the truth of string theory, which also, I believe in, but anyway here.
4 dimensions of OUR reality (length, width, depth, time)
4 dimensions of antireality (the same but each one is backwards)
and 2 dimensions of transversal, where gravitons can cross between the two universi. gravitons can do so, because, massless and not a form of energy, they are not hindered by the speed of light speed limit, thus instead of blue-shifting, they simply cut through spacetime fabric onto the other side of the quilt, to be metaphorical. period.

Also, in response to RNR's "no time travel" comment, it can occur, but we'd need a spinning zero-G cylinder of neutronium about 10,000 miles long and we'd have to orbit it retrograde, but in doing so, we would go backwards through time. Also, Frame-Dragging is soon going to come to existence (in Vermont, by the way), which uses high-powered lasers to transcend the fourth dimension. Theoretically, the machine is turned on, and 10 minutes later a message "hi" is put in. If the machine works correctly, then the moment it is turned on, "hi" will be received, in effect, having gone back in time. HOWEVER this could also cause the man to not insert "hi" 10 minutes later, thus having received a message of no conceivable origin, and this could cause the universe to stop existing. That wouldn't be good.

Answer 4

It may sound stupid but it's what I honestly think. Ok. I think that there are an infinite amount of probabilities in the universe and our soul is a singularity expressing the most probable one into a reality. But all the other probabilities are out there in infinity yet the singularity of our spirit is held firm. Almost like our soul or conscience is a black hole just there frozen while infinity circles around it. That means that we never die when we get into an accident that expression ends we die in one reality and we move instantly to the most likely probablity in a reality in which we may have been just hurt really bad. And this goes on and on until the most probable probability is the final probability and all things probable end.

Answer 5

I think that there are different worlds that are either ahead or behind us but always in the same timeline. I just think it may be the people that are more intellectual or if so less intelectual. There might be a parrallel universe - lets just hope they are making better choices than us.

Answer 6

well good theories all around. i dont see how its possible. the past is the past, we cant change it. and the future is affected by the choices of the past. time travel is not possible. if it were then we could have mutli universes. but they would be infinite in number.

Answer 7

what you are not experiencing currently exists as waves of possibility. What you experience right now are particles of reality.

Every possibility exists, you only perceive the one that you do.

Answer 8

Don't assume the speed of light is always constant...

Answer 9

I think it would be wicked, but it's not real.

Answer 10

i think it's just fantasy,do you think that's not fantasy ?