This will bake your noodle
Posted on March 17, 2004
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This is quite possibly the best article on n-dimensional cosmology I’ve ever read, not because I have any idea what he’s talking about because I don’t really, nor will you (no offense intended, neither does the author as he readily admits) but because it’s extremely well written, funny, and actually informative.
Michael Moyer delves into the world of theoretical physics in an effort to understand how exactly the universe works and why it is what it is and not what we think it is in Journey to the 10th Dimension:
If the following seems ridiculous, far-fetched or just outright outlandish to you, rest assured: It is. It will probably hurt your brain, as it has hurt mine, and as it most definitely hurts the brains of those who come up with this stuff for a living. The following asks you to accept ideas that are counter to the fundamental basis of our experience, the framework through which we comprehend everything from setting down a coffee cup to the arc of a home run as it sails into the upper deck. The basic point of what follows — and by the way, what follows is not fanciful provocation but has been worked into contemporary consciousness by the brainiest physicists alive today — is that everything that you have ever experienced has in some small but significant way been an illusion.
A light romp through space folding, string theory, the four fundamental forces, some particle physics thrown in for good measure - it’s better than coffee first thing in the morning!
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