Thinking about the gnostics and the string theorists who think they can get the equations to balance if they can just get n(5-125) more dimensions in to make it all work.
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"If I can just get an extra day on this deadline…"
aug 30, 2025, 7:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I take it back. An extra day or two would be wonderful.
aug 30, 2025, 7:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Look, all it requires is [checks notes] eleven dimensions
aug 30, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Just 11? Piker. I've seen 126 and fractionals suggested as necessary which seems very el oh el to me.
aug 30, 2025, 6:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, eleven is when I tapped out. I can imagine the somersaults in the meantime.
aug 30, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm just a caveman. But even I understand that when your equations only work in a worldspace that our universe explicitly does not exist in, then maybe you're barking up the wrong tree.
aug 30, 2025, 6:55 pm • 2 0 • view
This was a good read:
aug 30, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Huh. I may have to track that down. I'll also note that string theory still seems to be pretty dominant in institutional physics, so far as I can tell. But theory is pretty wiggly stuff.
aug 30, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Both Lee Smolin and Carlo Rovelli are great reads in this regard btw
aug 30, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I expect to get a lot of hatemail for this one, from both sides. What if this dimension actually had the same importance as what's attributed to all the others. I know the grass is always greener and such, but maybe it really isn't.
aug 30, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view