Sunday, March 22, 2009

It's Complicated

The superstring theory of the universe postulates that in addition to the four dimensions of space-time (up-down, left-right, back-forth, plus time), there must be seven additional dimensions which have different characteristics than the four we are familiar with. Together, these 11 dimensions form a reality plane in the shape of a Calabi-Yau space (depicted above). Some of these dimensions may be time dimensions as well as spatial.

Yes, it's complicated, but that's where we all live.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:26 PM

    It's beautiful in an eerie way.

    Bean

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  2. A friend of mine's father was a physicist. I didn't understand him either.

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