I forget the Alice in Wonderland story. However I would really like to churn the additional dimensions that the string theorists predict and then see where it leads us..
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Originally Posted by Fredrick  Perception is a very important component to our (daily) reality, Dipayankar. I am glad you asked, but I hope you don't mind the following information:
If I feel safe in my car, I may not be alert enough to take back gas when I should. In language, I can write stuff Science Fiction writers wouldn't even touch. In philosophy, I can make a table disappear even while you're still looking at it. In science I can have black holes contain a gravitational object that keeps an entire galaxy in place, but that cannot be seen itself, only its effects. In strings, I can have eleven dimensions all functioning perfectly fine each within each own dimension. In love, I can consider myself invinceable. In religion, I can conjure any deity I like. In my dreams I can fly to the moon (apparently also back, and also before I wake up).
I can even look for a theory of everything that was already found thousands of years ago, but that I ignore because it is delivered by ancient people and they are all dead. I can misinterpret all information discovered by scientists in the first part of the twentieth century, and claim we still don't have the overall picture in place (so governments keep funding my pet projects). I can look at inifinity as if it is mighty valuable. I can ignore the fact that I only need two eyes to see depth.
I guess it can all be captured in the saying that a fool can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer, but on behalf of the person asking the question, there are also never dumb questions. Dumb answers do exist.
String theorists are describing something that is experienced, but not something that is fundamental (or fundamentally different from what has been described already). Their information may indeed be valuable, but while it can color the picture, it does not help in an additional sense when wanting to understand the overall picture, it only further confuses.
As Austin made clear, two mirrors (one of them an interrogation mirror) creates all the depths needed for a white rabbit to enter. String theorists are like Alices in Wonderland. It is a story, but the story has a real message: don't follow the white rabbits (at least not for too long). |