There’s this favourite t-shirt of mine – “If you’re interested in time travel, meet me last thursday”. I’ve always been interested in dimensions, thanks to science fiction and Skeletor/Sorceress in the He-Man series opening portals in other dimensions outside the physical constraints of Eternia. That perhaps explains the recurrence of alternate realities and parallel universes in the blog.
S and I had this interesting discussion recently on dimensions. No, don’t run away, it wasn’t really a scientific discussion. I definitely am not qualified for one anyway, though at a concept level, I think it did get close to M-theory. (no relation to this blog 🙂 ) It was based on an abstract thought that on one hand, time is getting crunched and so is space, so where is all the crunched ‘stuff’ going. My point of view was that, time was expanding not crunching, since technology has made it easier for me to do things in shorter time, so it would perhaps balance the space crunch. No, conference calls don’t count, that works the other way. Space is no longer crunched, because calls are taken on the mobile, so conference halls are not required, and sigh, the calls last forever. 😐
The thought I had though, was that the relationship (space-time) was being defined in/by the reality around us. What if there were other dimensions involved which were affecting this relationship? Do they exist? Will we unlock them? Will they be the answers to the occurrences that we cannot explain within our current dimensional knowledge? Funnily, these questions pop up whenever I play with the shiny new toy called Foursquare, and see people unlocking badges.
At a basic level, badges get unlocked after specific user experiences – some repetitions, some new ones. I always equate them to new dimensions we observe in our personality after different experiences. That’s a kind of unlocking too, no? All of that brings me to another unanswered question. Is what we call death is actually the ‘experience’ we need to have to unlock another dimension? Or maybe we’ll need the other dimensions only after the death experience? Just like a regular multi level game. 🙂
until next time, death is a great leveler? 🙂
PS. What if the experience we understand as ‘death’ is ‘living’ in another dimension? I wonder then if cremation hurts, but our expressions in the other dimension cannot be heard here. Brr..
1) LifeVille: 34 years to level 2.
2) Jokes apart, since memories are chemical balances in the brain and is physical, you cant utilize your experiences in the ‘death dimension’. So are genetic traits. So it is only the ‘spark’ that can move between worlds.
3) Apparently, I was discussing wormholes with somebody yesterday. Equally interesting 🙂
4) Game Theory? I guess it is Game Mechanics probably 🙂
haha, no age jokes okay? :p
now yes, jokes apart, how do we know that the physical is not portable to the next dimension, in a form we don’t/can’t understand yet?
“how do we know that the physical is not portable to the next dimension”
Yes. You are correct there. I was just thinking about your ‘leaving the body behind’ thingy. Actually I believe ‘classic teleportation’ is more complex than time travel because you need infinite amounts of data to build back somebody’s physical structure (Movie:Timeline). So, the easiest way to think is, well, wormholes where the physical body is magically transported in spacetime without rebuilding the body. (movie:Contact)
Another interesting thing is aliens who has multi dimensional bodies when one of their head is in D1, tail is in D2 – Remember, humans always talk about only up to D11. (movie:?)
And you are again correct there – we can’t say WRONG to anything in this subject – remember, black holes had no proof for a very long time. So is the case with worm holes, multi dimensions etc.
My eyes glazed over, at M theory.
Should I transition in due course to the next phase, the time-after, I herewith solemnly promise to appraise you of whether I can , or not hear.
Beware!
Bizarre?
thats just in case someone’s interested (i know, i share – that’s all)
ah, but that’s the point, maybe communication is not possible between dimensions, and the phenomena we come across (if we do) are bugs? 🙂
That was one heck of a T-Shirt slogan ! Very cool !
thanks kavi 🙂
Phew… like i expected
been a while since i read your blog. thanks to anita i could reconnect. time travel or not, i sure do know that this conversation has taken all new dimension…
haha, what was expected? 🙂
bora? the link is updated?
have you watched teh movie on Barmuda Triangle based on the time dimension. you may like it. similar to what you’ve explained here.
can’t seem to recollect a specific movie, though the theme is pretty common…