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Posted 07/28/09 - 10:28 AM: Subject: Eleven Dimensions	#1
So according to the theoretical physics known as M-Theory, there are eleven dimensions. Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Time, Mov. of Primary/Secondary/Tertiary, Pulse of Time, and Energy Radiation or Absorption along Primary/Secondary/Tertiary. I understand the first eight, but 'Energy Radiation or Absorption along Primary/Secondary/Tertiary' just makes no sense to me from what I've read. Can someone better explain these dimensions to me?

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Posted 08/05/09 - 12:04 PM:	#2
No problem. When you let math dictate reality you can logically conclude many things. I respect the great minds that have produced this theory. I don't honestly understand any of the computations. I do know the basis was an assumption regarding the geometry of basic matter. If anyone would like to make m-theory make sense, I would be forever grateful.
Or not.

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Posted 11/19/09 - 09:22 AM:	#3
Uh, where did you learn about M-theory exactly? Because while 11 dimensions do figure in M-theory (actually, it's a bit complicated, but I'll come back to that later), the rest of your post ('pulse' of time? 'pulse'?) makes absolutely no sense, and I can assure you it doesn't appear in any treatment of string/M theory I'm aware of. Now, M-theory in its usual formulation has 1 temporal and 10 spatial dimensions, of which 6 are compactified on Young manifolds (the analogy of the Calabi-Yau manifolds in older string theory). Which means that the 6 extra dimensions are normal spatial dimensions, but finite in size and too small to be noticeable at even subatomic scales. But you know when I said things are a bit complicated? The theory can be shown to be equivalent to certain 10-dimensional theores, and in fact which description one uses depends on the energy scale. Even normal string theory in a space can be shown to be equivalent to a conformal field theory at the boundary of the space. So, most would say that space is not something fundamental in string theory.

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Posted 11/22/09 - 07:16 PM:	#4
Go to google and type in imagining the tenth dimension. Theres a nice video there.
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Posted 11/22/09 - 07:16 PM:	#5
Er.. I mean youtube
To be, or not to be, that is the question-Shakesphere There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -Shakesphere And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Nietzsche It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.-Aristotle The unexamined life is not worth living-Socrates

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