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OzzFan     Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 
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Of course, we can ask if there's any reason to believe there are 11 total dimensions since we can barely quantify 4, if we accept time being the 4th. ;-) I fear pulling the topic further off conversation, but I think discussion is always a fine thing, so hopefully this will be excused. Based upon my understanding of String Theory, there is a sort of hierarchy, but you get the entire package all at once. You cannot have the 10th dimension without the previous 9, nor can you have the first without all ten; they all exist concurrently. The problem is merely the perception of beings that are limited to a particular dimension. For example, we exist in the third dimension, but we are simultaneously experiencing or co-existing with the higher level dimensions. Based upon String theory, I do not believe you could have a universe that only exists in the first dimension and without time. Though it is important to remember that it is only a theory and all suppositions can be false. String Theory makes sense to me, so I do buy into it's postulations until a better idea comes along. :-) ID: 1144647 ·  |
nemesis  Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
i'm all for thread drift... do not count me as one of the anal retentive thread owners... ID: 1144693 · |
 Gary Charpentier  Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30640 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32
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I expect to spend eternity whipping my minions into shape. The devil's work is never done. 
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nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
I expect to spend eternity whipping my minions into shape. The devil's work is never done. beware of Rick Perry... ID: 1144724 · |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30640 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32
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I expect to spend eternity whipping my minions into shape. The devil's work is never done. Ah, you mean the reincarnate of Pope Gregory IX?
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nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139781021/the-evangelicals-engaged-in-spiritual-warfare nah Perry hangs with John Hagee...and Hagee says Catholics are of the devil... ID: 1144808 · |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30640 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32
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http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139781021/the-evangelicals-engaged-in-spiritual-warfare What did I say? Pope Gregory IX/Perry is one of my minions and where better to get them than from the ranks of organized religion. A couple hundred years of education by lava pit and they do what they are told I can slip them in right where they can do the most damage and deliver to me the most souls. Isn't he starting to set up another inquisition? The timing may not quite be right in the USA, but the same thing seems to be doing much better with my islamic minions. Soon the world will be back to the dark ages and I'll be harvesting most every soul as they believe the lies my minions, who will head their religions, must feed them or it is back to the lava pits.
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Michael John Hind  Send message Joined: 6 Feb 07 Posts: 1330 Credit: 3,632,028 RAC: 0 
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Based upon String theory, I do not believe you could have a universe that only exists in the first dimension and without time. Though it is important to remember that it is only a theory and all suppositions can be false. String Theory makes sense to me, so I do buy into it's postulations until a better idea comes along. :- Yes, string theory which requires there to be more than three dimensions of space. I do hope someone finds the answer here soon!! ID: 1144891 · |
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nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
Based upon String theory, I do not believe you could have a universe that only exists in the first dimension and without time. Though it is important to remember that it is only a theory and all suppositions can be false. String Theory makes sense to me, so I do buy into it's postulations until a better idea comes along. :- actually String theory has morphed into m-theory(m=membrane) m-theory has brought forth multiverses.. cognitive reality may be how the particles that make you up react to this dimensional universe. ID: 1144978 · |
Sirius B   Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 
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eternity...Me?...........either in a box or an urn........with the ups & downs of life, one is enough for me...it beggars belief that it could be possible to go through the same crap in another universe/dimension............. ID: 1145003 · |
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Michael John Hind Send message Joined: 6 Feb 07 Posts: 1330 Credit: 3,632,028 RAC: 0
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Yes, string theory which requires there to be more than three dimensions of space. I do hope someone finds the answer here soon!! Well, since most are considered to be tightly curled up on themselves they will have to be unraveled first prior to being measured. The trouble is we have theories built on top of theories built yet again on top of more theories. A pack of cards comes to mind here!!! ID: 1145006 · |
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Michael John Hind Send message Joined: 6 Feb 07 Posts: 1330 Credit: 3,632,028 RAC: 0
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eternity...Me?...........either in a box or an urn........with the ups & downs of life, one is enough for me...it beggars belief that it could be possible to go through the same crap in another universe/dimension............. Sirus!! don't be so negative ol' boy. Who knows, you may come back in the cave man period next time...and think, "No tax's to pay" ID: 1145010 · |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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eternity...Me?...........either in a box or an urn........with the ups & downs of life, one is enough for me...it beggars belief that it could be possible to go through the same crap in another universe/dimension............. LOL..........no tax maybe, but food for the dinosaurs....ouch..... ID: 1145026 · |
kittyman  Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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Oh, me? I suspect I'll be floating about somewhere up above, looking down at some who didn't believe me. LOL. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster 
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Michael John Hind Send message Joined: 6 Feb 07 Posts: 1330 Credit: 3,632,028 RAC: 0
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Oh, me? I suspect I'll be floating about somewhere up above, looking down at some who didn't believe me. LOL. Msattler....Ms', you intending to come back as a storm cloud then (Te=he) ID: 1145061 · |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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Oh, me? I suspect I'll be floating about somewhere up above, looking down at some who didn't believe me. LOL. LOL...I anticipate the altitude to be much higher. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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Michael John Hind Send message Joined: 6 Feb 07 Posts: 1330 Credit: 3,632,028 RAC: 0
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Oh, me? I suspect I'll be floating about somewhere up above, looking down at some who didn't believe me. LOL. ID: 1145070 · |
Allie in Vancouver  Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0 
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and the proof of that is.... Occam's Razor essentially suggests that the simplest solution that fits all the observed data is probably right one. When applying Newtonian physics to planetary orbits (most noticeable when observing Mercury) or even to GPS, Newton's theories fail. General Relativity works. We continue to use Newtow's theories in most day-to-day applications because they are much, much easier to work with and because they will usually provide close-enough results, but they are not strictly accurate. General Relativity is, so far as I am aware, the simplest theory of gravity that fits the observed data. Occam's Razor still applies. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein ID: 1145112 · |
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nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
plus Einstein's relativity theory has been proven on numerous occasions. he predicted gravitational lensing...and lo and behold it exists... his theory predicted black holes...and they exists.. the simplest theory wins... that is the problem everyone has with "The Standard Model" its unwieldy, its cobbled together...it doesn't flow together...and there are huge gaps.... String/M-theory builds on Relativity and Quantum Mechanics... and its the best answer so far... ID: 1145396 · |
Matt Giwer  Send message Joined: 21 May 00 Posts: 841 Credit: 990,879 RAC: 0
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do you believe in an afterlife Do you believe in a pre-life? Where did you spend the last 13.4 billion years? Did you enjoy it? If the afterlife is the same as the prelife how will you know? Unvarnished Haaretz Jerusalem Post The origin of the Yahweh Cult ID: 1145914 · |
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