Hyper dimensional physics is the study of possible spatial dimensions beyond our obvious three. The easiest way to understand this concept is by imagining "flat" creatures living on a plane who are unaware of their third dimension, (often referred to as "flatland"). It's a good and common analogy that can give us an inkling of how a four(or more) dimensional world would be.

This subject has not been explored nearly enough, but there have been some remarkable discoveries from very prominent scientists. One of these, that I find particularly interesting is in the application of accepted mathematical theories on a higher dimensional model. I am only a layman with an interest in the whole area, so if my interpretation is not accurate, please forgive my ignorance.

In the world of science, One great frontier that many have attempted to breach is the idea of a single force or energy within the universe. Science has come to the conclusion that there are four fundamental forces that everything in the known universe is the effect of. These are: electromagnetic, gravimetric, weak nuclear, and strong nuclear. Mathematically speaking, these four do not seem equal and compatible. However, in applying these formulae to a hyperdimensional model, many scientists have found that these "puzzle pieces" start to just fit together. At nine spatial dimensions, the formulas are compatible.

Obviously, mathematic truth is,at the most, a half truth, but it does make for a good lead. Take two forces for example, gravimetric and electromagnetic. at a glance there are a lot of obvious similarities, but also a lot of incompatibilities that seem to suggest they have no common fundamental force. now to explain how two forces could be understood as one in a hyper dimensional model, consider the flatland. If you took a ball and rolled it across the surface, the flatlanders would percieve a dot moving across the land. But if you took that ball and bounced it across the surface, they would see a dot blinking in and out of existence, as well as moving across the surface. To them, the two different instances would seem to be two similiar forces, but clearly different.

A two-d plane in a three-d world would have a lot of hard to explain events. and so, a three-d sphere in a four-d world would seem to have just as much confusion. And if there actually were 9 spatial dimensions, the forces acting within it would be insanely hard for us to comprehend.

One common argument to this theory is that if there were so many, why dont things simply disapear as a common occurance? One way that this has been explained is that the other six have collapsed to a point where we cannot percieve the distances within it. Back to flatland again, consider a three-dimensional big bang where one dimension, for some reason or another, has condensed back to a point where it is small enough to make travelling acrossed it inperceivable to its inhabitants.

Also consider the fact that the larger things in our universe become, the more they appear to be elongated disks. If you look at its dimensions, you see that its length width and height seem to be in a particular consecutive ratio. If this were to hold true in higher dimensions, then it seems if the three we percieve were the biggest of the nine, the next smallest dimension could be beyond our perception.

One interesting thing about this whole area, to me anyways, is that it seems to give scientific possiblity to things that have been believed for humanities entire history. Namely in our religeons and spirituality. A nine dimensional being would be immensely more complex than us, and have a power over our simple three-d world that we could not imagine. A lot of mythologies suddenly become almost plausible. things appearing and disapearing without a trace, magic, supernatural beings, etc, etc. all of these types of things become significantly more possible and explainable.

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