Apropos of the recent mutterings of banality permeating The General Discussion, I hereby resuscitate this thread and bring ye this:

http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

It seems that even a multiverse containing an infinity of infinities may itself have a limit.

[djskrimp]

Apropos of the recent mutterings of banality permeating The General Discussion, I hereby resuscitate this thread and bring ye this:

http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

It seems that even a multiverse containing an infinity of infinities may itself have a limit.

My mind asploded...then came back together and thought, "Cool."

Too many 'as ifs' and imagining for my liking. It's about superimposing the logic of the first three dimensions over itself three times over, so three times we start with a dot. But even with the first dottage, the 4th dimension, how does one justify the appearance of "the multitude of paths", that is if the 4th dimension consists of the time passing from one dot to the other, forming a straight line, where do all those other dots come from? I believe these are unjustified constructions stemming from basing our thinking in the first three dimensions, that is in order to come from one to two dimensions, one needs an unaligned third dot, thus in the 4th dimension - which is time - introducing the term "possibility" and justifying additional dots which form the 5th dimension. Then the animation does the no-no of applying microlaws to macro world and goes berzerk ("what if you wanted to go back to your own childhood and visit yourself") Yeah, just fold the time dimension (4th) through the possibility (5th). Good for thinking, but from the single lined 4th dimesion that's the game of language, not reality.

[Keeker]

Too many 'as ifs' and imagining for my liking....not reality.

You are the pin to my balloon.

If there is a center to the universe, and the universe is infinitely large, then the distance from the center to every farthest point would be equally infinite.

Thus, the universe can be considered spherical.

A sphere of infinite radius would have a perfectly flat surface.

Cool eh? I guess it doesn't really work if the universe has no surface, but it's an interesting thought anyway.

If there is a center to the universe, and the universe is infinitely large, then the distance from the center to every farthest point would be equally infinite.

Thus, the universe can be considered spherical.

A sphere of infinite radius would have a perfectly flat surface.

Cool eh? I guess it doesn't really work if the universe has no surface, but it's an interesting thought anyway.

Hehe, food for thought. Yes, it does not work because surface spells finity, so if universe is infinitely large, universe cannot be considered spherical, because a sphere is defined by its outer border/surface which in an infinitely large universe is non existent. Sphereness also is determined by the outside view which again in an infinite universe is non existent.
The coolness of your thought stems from finiting the infinity, an "imagine if" move similarly tempting but unjustified as in the ten dimensions animation the move of dotting the space, that is de-dimensioning or zero-dimensioning the three dimensions.

this thread looks yummy
i'm gonna read everything later on, just got home from a 6 hours bus trip 8/

but anyway, that "quantum physics for dummies" part of What the #$(#* do we know FINALLY made me understand the whole impossibility of measuring particles without influencing on them. And it's awesome
Be back to read everything later on

I love physics.

I love physics.

i love trying to understand physics.

I love trying to understand people, trying to understand physics

My sister graduated in Physics to day (yes she's a physicist now).

More specifically: "The movement of paramagnetic beats on the surface of a biosensor chip surface". 10 Months or research...

Will she be on tele with big hair telling us how particles get the energy to move about?

Nope.

Blast.