Salutatio Day!
12-Feb-98, Day Brown wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: Time and Again
 RM>> Big Bang Model - A theory describing the state of the early
 RM>> universe as a cosmic singularity, infinitely dense, infinitely
 RM>> compact and the "expanding" universe resulting from the explosion
 RM>> of said singularity.
 DB> Hmmmm. this is so far off the top of my hairless head it might be
 DB> fulla dandruff, but if re-ALL-ity, as David put it, is made up of
 DB> time, and five dimensions,... which is the minimum number I heard
 DB> is needed to make quantum math work, then: we have time and three
 DB> dimensions in an expanding universe, but time, one of ours, and a
 DB> different pair to make up *another* 3 dimensional timespace, does
 DB> that mean that the other universe is shrinking?  
     
The way I understand higher dimensions is that our universe (4 
dimensions including time) split off of a 10 dimensional universe at the
moment of the Big Bang, so that we are left with one universe of 4
dimensions and one universe of six dimensions.  As for SHRINKING, this 
is the first I have heard of that idea.  But, hey any dimensions higher 
than the four we are familiar with is purely mathematically derived.
 DB> If our universe
 DB> only had one dimension in common with another, it would only be a
 DB> point of commonality in both; there, it acts like a pinhole camera
 DB> obscura such that force, e.g. light, would enter it freely, but
 DB> not return, nor have any effect on the rest of the conventional
 DB> universe.  I see a paradox in having black holes in an expanding
 DB> universe in that, at some point, black holes sweep up everything
 DB> in the space between them, at which point, there is *nothing*
 DB> between them and thus: they are collectively, the aforementioned
 DB> 'singularity'. 
 
Black holes are thought to be singularities by mainstream science.  The 
actual existence of black holes are yet to be proven beyond physics,
quantum mechanics, and sheer fancy, though.
I think that your idea is interesting in that I can imagine our universe
"sharing" dimension(s) with another universe.  In fact I can imagine our
four dimensional universe sharing ALL four dimensions with another, say,
six dimensional universe and THAT universe (with our's contained[?] 
within) sharing all it's dimensions with another universe with yet more 
dimensions.
 Dicere...
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Richard Meic
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