So I tried to read up on the matter, the first attempt was a book I chanced upon in a used book sale entitled Hyperspace by Michio Kaku written in 1994.

I was struck by what the author wrote in the Preface:

“… the laws of gravity and light seem totally dissimilar…. However, if we add one more dimension, a fifth dimension, to the previous four dimensions of space and time, then the equations governing light and gravity appear to merge together like two pieces of a jigsaw puzle. … In this way, we see that the laws of light and gravity become simpler in five dimensions…. When expressed in dimensions beyond four, however, we have “enough room” to explain the fundamental forces in an elegant, self-contained fashion.”

Part II of the book introduces the ten dimension as the route to the proverbial unification of theory. And somewhere the issue of meaning and purpose of life in the vast universe emerges.

The book closes with an eloquent quote of Stephen Hawking:

“[If] we do discover a complete theory, it should in time by understandable in broad principles by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we would know the mind of God.”

Is that what’s all about, knowing God?

Hunting for Higher Dimensions

The strength of gravity takes a sharp turn upward at around 1 TeV, as the Stanford-Trieste scenario implies, an opportunity opens for testing this theory also in accelerators. Collisions at such energies could produce gravitons in large numbers, and some of these particles would immediately vanish into the extra dimensions, carrying energy with them. Experimenters would look for an unusual pattern of so-called missing energy events.

This and more subtle effects of extra dimensions could show up at existing accelerators, such as LEP and the Tevatron at Fermilab, only if the dimensions have scales nearly as big as a millimeter. The powerful LHC will greatly improve the chances for detecting missing energy events and other prominent extradimension effects.

So are the “doom sayers as figures to influence” still going to overide and influence the minds of responsible reporting, had this information not been released to the public? We are in 2006, and what efforts had been thought about to prepare?

A special LHC olympics perhaps. :)I won’t even mention Aldeberger here.

So it will be interesting to see what you have reported JoAnne.

The concept of dimensions as stated by Cynthia via Randall hits the nail on the head..which is a pretty good analogy (nail-on-head..Hammer a nail into wood for instance) as to how one can trancend from a visible 3-Dimensional frame (nail external to wood)..to an hidden frame of reference, nail after being hammered into wood equals, nail embedded from view in 3-D frame of reference.

The simplest way to explain the concept of 2-Dimension compacting from 3-Dimension, is to ask a person to lay on the floor,face-up. Next ask the person to try and move, using only points of contact. The movement of the person is constrained, and at the point of contact the persons legs can be moved left or right (remaining in contact with the floor), instigating a Rotational action of the whole persons body.

Whilst a large portion of the persons body is protruding into the volume of space away from the points of contact, surface of the floor and the surface of the body(persons back) interacting with the floor, are interacting along a PLANE surface of 2-D.

The Milkman oil-drop experiment is probably the most intruiging “dimensional” concept.

Will it be videotaped for the archives? (I know some people …)

“Ed, why do you want to know about the fifth dimension?”

“Well, you see, some of my friends are psychic, and they told me that they can communicate on the fifth-dimensional level, so I was wondering what that meant.”

“Oh, that’s easy: It means they’re delusional.”

End of story.

I had hoped the original reinstated.