BillionNamesofGod wrote:Still baffled why scientists don't accept the obvious that the universe is multi dimensional !
It solves all the problems, I thought this ted talk was rather good.
When you get be all the constants of physics by using higher dimensions, it all just makes sense!
http://einsteinsintuition.com/2013/thad-meets-ted/
I spent an hour researching this. The lecturer, Thad Roberts, served eight years in prison for theft, during which he came up with his "theory." It is pure intuition, no math.
His eleven dimensions have nothing to do with the eleven dimensions of string theory.
He has that list of 30 constants of nature that he claims his theory predicts, but we are shown nothing of the theory. It IS kind of cool that all of those constants come from seven basic constants, but none of the seven constants are original to him. He says that one of the constants comes from his theory, but it is actually the square root of the fine structure constant.
All and all, it seems to be inspired by 19th century physics, specifically the model used by Maxwell and the vortex theories of Lord Kelvin. He throws in fractals and superfluids, which weren't known back then. There might be something there, but he evidently can't get the numbers to work out. On the other hand, his crackpot ideas are remarkably similar to mine! But I don't foist my shenanigans on anyone.
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If you are interested in the eleven dimensions of string theory I would highly recommend Shing-Tung Yau's book The Shape of Inner Space. Things I learned: Yau started out as a juvenile delinquent until he got into math, in which he progressed very rapidly. He got interested in solutions to Einstein's general relativity in higher dimensions. He solved this problem for spaces with complex dimensions. Yau became famous when this turned out to be what the string theorists needed. Yau is now a professor at Harvard.
It is believed that there are eleven dimensions in string theory, but everyone works with ten because eleven is too hard. They tack on a tiny Yau space with 3 complex dimensions. which are reported in the popular press as 6 dimensions. The 3+1 dimensions of normal space plus 6 dimensions =10 dimensions, which is the best they can do so far.
The Yau spaces are tiny in order to explain why no matter or energy from our universe goes into these dimensions. Too small. They are small in the sense that they are extremely curved. Anything inside going in a straight line very soon ends up back where it started. They are so small that any quanta able to get in there would have an extremely short wave length, which means extremely high energy.