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Hyperspace and a Theory of Everything

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What lies beyond our 4 dimensions? When I was a child, I used to visit the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. I would spend hours fascinated by the carp, who lived in a very shallow pond just inches beneath the lily pads, just beneath my fingers, totally oblivious to the universe above them. I would ask myself a question only a child could ask: what would it be like to be a carp? What a strange world it would be! I imagined that the pond would be an entire universe, one that is two-dimensional in space. The carp would only be able to swim forwards and backwards, and left and right. But I imagined that the concept of “up”, beyond the lily pads, would be totally alien to them. Any carp scientist daring to talk about “hyperspace”, i.e. the third dimension “above” the pond, would immediately be labeled a crank. I wondered what would happen if I could reach down and grab a carp scientist and lift it up into hyperspace. I thought what a wondrous story the scientist would tell the oth...

Stephen Hawking says there's no theory of everything

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What follows is an original writing by me ... (where the rocks come from)  Physicists today have constructed two models of "the universe." These are the theory of the very big (Einstein's theory: e=mc2) and the theory of the very small (known as Quantum Mechanics). These two ideas both "prove" themselves correct, experimentally; however, many physicists believe that they both cannot be right because they seem fundamentally at odds with each other.   Quantum theory explains the two nuclear forces and electromagnetism, but it does not yet explain gravity. The two-slit light experiment shows that the basic particles of our universe do not seem to exist (except as a wave function) until they are first measured. According to the theory, matter and energy can (and do) appear spontaneously out of the vacuum of space-time. This is called quantum fluctuation. When a particle comes into existence, so does an anti-particle (possibly in some parallel "negative" ...