I have been re-watching a NOVA series called NOVA: Physics: The Elegant Universe and Beyond DVD 4PK
and I have to recommend this program to anyone who wants to heighten his or her understanding of life and physics.
The first DVD gives a great synopsis of the history of physics, from Newton to Einstein and beyond. Then the series goes into more theoretical spaces by presenting what is known as “String Theory” and the “M Theory” which predict that other than the three spacial dimensions we can sense and a fourth dimension of Time, that there are 7 more dimensions for a total of 11 dimensions.
What are the 11 dimensions? I started thinking: What if science has found a way to quantify things that we once thought were just qualitative? What if the other dimensions turned out to be love and truth and goodness and beauty and three other things that human beings experience and come to know in life? Could we then start to measure goodness? Or love? Could we then find a way to rank the things in life in terms of quantitative beauty?
I don’t know. I just had this idea. The scientists and the mathematicians will have to create a dialogue with the philosophers and theologians to get to the bottom of this. I predict that this can only happen in the atmosphere of a true university where all departments are cohesive and all aiming toward the one, highest truth. Probably a Catholic university, but maybe not.
Whatever the other 7 dimensions are, human beings have the ability to concieve of them, so perhaps our rational conscious minds originate from them at the moment of conception. Scientists are looking for something called “gravitons” and the moment that they might disappear into another dimension, but I think they should try to look at the appearance of something at the moment of conception. There they might find the gateway. Then we might also have proof to know at what point human life actually begins.
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