Jul 7, 2006, 05:21 PM
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Yeah, their explanation of time, the fourth dimension, and how it would travel through the branches of the fifth dimension, that definitely reminded me of Donnie Darko, and actually better helped me comprehend the concepts of that movie.
This is a fascinating animation. I've dedicated a fair portion of my own idle thoughts toward figuring out how time functions within space and how, if there were a way, one could manipulate both forces. This doesn't provide all the answers but it does erect a solid framework from which better questions may be asked.
I understood the concepts of each dimension well, I think. The notion of one point which contains all possibilties and all other points along string theory is nothing new to me. I've just never seen it explained in this manner before; until now, it was mostly an abstract concept that I fiddled with in my own mind.
I've long entertained the idea of folding positions on a point (points on a point, making the larger point, in fact, a spherical construct of many lesser points which comprise the sum of its parts) over so that one could move along previously untravellable paths, or connecting diametric points on a point so that they collapsed upon each other, eventually forming a "donut". A donut still maintains the same unified surface as a sphere, making that form the most stable for quantum movements through space.
The video didn't address that part, but I expect that the principles that allow it lie between the sixth and ninth dimensions and would be better explained in the book.
I may have to get this book.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by Crash "Long-Winded Wrong Answer" Landon; Jul 7, 2006 at 05:27 PM.
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