On a Mathematical Multiverse

0D = Point; no dimension
1D = Line; length
2D = Split; height
3D = Fold; width
4D = Line; duration
5D = Split;
6D = Fold;
7D = Line;
8D = Split;
9D = Fold;
10D = Point; no dimension

I think that the spiritual and scientific "dimensions" are the same. Souls are like drinking straws pushed through layer cakes where each layer is a dimension. Your higher selves are sections of different layers of cake in the straw, or how your soul manifests on separate dimensions. Each person has six higher selves, one from dimensions 4-9. I suppose that one could say that they have 7 higher selves, but 10D, where every possible universe, every possible lifeform, every possible soul, is compressed into one single dot, is basically God. So those people that say "You are God!" are right- you are a manifestation of God on the 3rd dimension. So is everything else in this dimension with a spirit.

There are not "infinite dimensions". Furthermore, one cannot "visit" a higher dimension. That is like looking at a pitcher with 10 cups of water and saying, "Let us drink the fourth cup." You cannot separate the fourth cup from the third, fifth, or ninth, so you cannot drink the fourth cup. Following the same logic, you cannot visit the fourth dimension.

When many spiritualists go about describing different "dimensions" which they have "visited", I think that talking about were universes, of which there are infinite parallels. If the many-worlds theory of Quantum Mechanics is to be believed, for every choice you make, there is an alternate universe created in which you made the other choice. And this is not limited to the choices of intelligent beings. This is true for dogs, plants, and hurricanes. There are infinite universes, and each one is unique.

This means that everything you could possibly think of, no matter how strange, exists. In fact, it exists because you simply think of it. The thought travels up to the 10D, and then that spirals down to another universe with whatever possibility you think of. Imagine the same cake was really colorful and had ten layers, each layer a different color or shade of color, and the straw is still forced through the cake. Now imagine that the 10th layer is only big enough for one straw. Now imagine that there are infinite cakes, each with a different color combination (even if the difference is just a fraction of a shade), that all share this one straw-size 10th layer.

A common misconception is that time is a dimension. From our 3-dimensional viewpoint, 4-dimensional animations rotate through time. From a 2-dimensional viewpoint, 3-dimensional objects rotate through time. 4D people do not "move through time", as some would say. They move through 4D space. Math can portray higher-dimensional space; thus, it must be reality. Time is an illusion. A number of problems in physics arise from the assumption otherwise.

Time is not a dimension. Time does not exist. As Julian Barbour said, "Change merely creates an illusion of time, with each individual moment existing in its own right, complete and whole." Mr. Barbour actually composed an entire book on the subject, entitled The End of Time. In the book, he named these moments "Nows", and said that we interpret the Nows through "time capsules", or "any fized pattern that creates or encodes the appearance of motion, change or history." An example of a time capsule would be a brain. Physics arranges Nows by their inherent similarity to each other.

But how could this exist? Time is an integral part of physics- namely, relativity theory. How could there be space-time without time?

Actually, Barbour has worked that out, too. With a combination of his best-matching method, ADM formalism, and the many-worlds interpretation, he has developed a full, timeless model of physics that explains all experimental results and actually smoothly transitions most of quantum mechanics and general relativity to a timeless universe intact.

Once upon a time, Mach (the same guy who figured out the speed of sound) stated that the perfect theory of relativity would have no underlying background grid. Newton's theories had the universe as a gigantic grid of space with time ticking by like God's stop watch. Then, Einstein took a step towards the Machian ideal by combining space and time into a grid that can be warped and bended. However, although this was a step in the right direction, it still had a grid.

Barbour collaborated with Bruno Bertotti to develop a technique called "best matching" for deriving gravitational equations directly from astronomical measurements of objects' spatial relations with each other. This matches the accuracy of Einstein's general relativity in predicting gravitational effects, but also explains away the appearance of the accelerated expansion of the universe without invoking elements such as dark matter or dark energy. What is fantastic, though, is that Barbour's model of gravity would successfully reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity, a problem which haunted Einstein for years before his death.

Now, one of the main issues with a timeless universe is causality. In his book, Barbour says that there is no way that causality could exist in a universe without time. After all, if correlation does not imply causation, then what does? Thus, causation is unnecessary in our timeless universe. This is a difficult fallacy to tackle, but the Bayesian Eliezer Yudkowsky explained, in Timeless Causality, how it would work. Causality is the basis of reductionism, so it is essential for all science. In a timeless universe,

This gives some interesting results, when considered spiritually. Now, claims of psychic behavior seem just a bit more credible. Daryl Bem, in his paper Feeling the Future, analyzes several experiments that seem to confirm the existence of psi, or "anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect".


calls his universe without time and only relative positions 'Platonia' after Plato's world of eternal forms.
He marshals as evidence a non-standard analysis of relativity, many-worlds theory and the ADM formalism. Since, he believes, we should be open to physics without time, we must evaluate anew physical laws, such as the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, that take on radical but powerful and fruitful forms when time is left out. Barbour writes that our notion of time, and our insistence on it in physical theory, has held science back, and that a scientific revolution awaits. Barbour suspects that the wave function is somehow constrained by the 'terrain' of Platonia.
Barbour ends with a short meditation on some of the consequences of 'the end of time'. If there is no arrow of time, no becoming only being, creation is equally inherent in every instant.
There is no general agreement that the ideas expressed in the book have any predictive power and thereby constitute a scientific theory.



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