-=> PAUL ROGERS wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 PR> For example, if gravitons can radiate and interact with the parallel
 PR> universe membranes, why haven't they all attracted each other?

 WC> Perhaps they oppose one another across dimensional planes?
 WC> WAG here as I've not read a solid book on quantum theory in many a
 WC> year.

 PR> Why don't we detect gravitic fields from a neighboring parallel
 PR> universe where we don't see matter in our universe?

 WC> Because it's parallel but perhaps not intersecting?
 WC> Another WAG.

 PR> Know anything about Abbott's "Flatland"?

Never heard of it but I've now the keywords to research it.
I have heard flatland discussed on PBS science shows and
assume this might possibly be a dumbed down version
of what you're speaking of.

 PR> According to their
 PR> presentation of M-Theory membranes, that's what we live in--as
 PR> seen from a higher dimensional perspective.

 PR> My arguments can be understood primarily based on geometry.

 PR> Imagine a 2-D universe.  In this 2-space universe stars radiate EM only
 PR> within the plane.  It's proposed gravitons interact weakly within the
 PR> plane because gravitons can escape from the plane into the third
 PR> dimension.  Those gravitons intersect another parallel 2-space
 PR> universe. That should be perceptible as a gravitational field, where
 PR> there is no mass.  It should be detectible instrumentally at least, but
 PR> what should happen is mass would be attracted and collect.  Thus mass
 PR> concentrations should basically match between parallel universes.  So
 PR> what keeps the first 2-D universe from detecting all those masses from
 PR> neighbors. Summed, you've got as much gravity as if the gravitons never
 PR> left it in the first place.

My views on this topic are largely intuition, granted a
particularly bizarre intuition.
Your explaination above fits my concept of this bizarre reality.

I still recall getting science kits as a kid, one had three
polarized filters in it and literature about the conflict that
could be demonstrated between particle and wave theorys
with these simple filters.

You know the one where two polarized filters placed
at 90 degrees apart respectively shutting out all light,
place a filter 45 degrees apart either in between them and light
passes unimpeded.
Real brain buster for a 12 Y.O. and I've been hooked on this
weirdness ever since.

Made my own spectrascope also at twelve with a diffraction grating,
tube and a razor slit.
Differences berween sodium vapor street lamps and mercury vapors
dramatically demonstrated the science of remotely detecting elements
in stars and interstellar space.

Sure wish I had the math to further delve into this stuff
but having aced algebra 2 never went beyond there :-(
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