jmcgready’s misc universe

Well, trust  science to throw a monkey wrench in a perfectly good theory of mine
back to the drawing board. I guess….

New Scientist SPACE - Satellite could open door on extra dimension - Breaking News

An exotic theory, which attempts to unify the laws of physics by proposing the existence of an extra fourth spatial dimension, could be tested using a satellite to be launched in 2007.

Such theories are notoriously difficult to test. But a new study suggests that such hidden dimensions could give rise to thousands of mini-black holes within our own solar system – and the theory could be tested within Pluto’s orbit in just a few years.

Black holes of various masses are thought to have sprung into existence within 1 second of the big bang, as elementary particles clumped together at extreme energies. But Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicts the smallest of these “primordial” black holes should have already evaporated, through a quantum process called Hawking radiation.

But according to some alternative theories that attempt to unify gravity with quantum mechanics, such as string theory, small black holes could still exist. That is because these theories propose extra spatial dimensions, which alter the way gravity behaves on small scales. The theory of general relativity holds that there are three spatial dimensions plus time.

“That [extra spatial dimension] changes the rate at which black holes radiate, so you can slow down the evaporation quite substantially,” says Charles Keeton, a physicist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US.

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Let’s start off with the dimensions as we commonly think of them:

• 3 spacial dimensions (L x W x H)
• 1 temporal dimension (L)

You can probably see where I’m going here…

Where are the temporal equivalents of Width and Height?
Where are the temporal X and Y axes to our temporal Z axis?

We only need to add one temporal dimension to get the
parallel universes/futures thing happening -
i.e. to have time be planar as opposed to linear.

it could also introduce the possibilty of experiencing time as being either
a vertical or horizontal sine wave instead of a straight line -
add a third temporal dimension and you could get events expressing themselves
in the form of 3D waves - a literal ocean of space/time.

which, of course, brings up metaphors of a 6D space/time storm surge,
6D space/time tornados, tsunamis, whirlpools, etc.

I’m even having a hard time getting it all into my head….

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