[Case] You talked about the expanding universe with the balloon metaphor. Something has bothered me from the start on that one: you are seeing dots moving away from each other on the 2D surface of the balloon. But you know those aren't dot those are galaxies they would need to be expanding not like dots but like little balls. What the heck would that look like? The 2/3D metaphor of the balloon helps but is still not quite there.
The deal about consciousness is that it allows us to model things in multiple dimensions. Sort of but not really. I was talking to a friend this evening and he mentioned that you can not really imagine what one dimension is like. We can only see one dimension as a line on paper which is a representation in 3D. Even when we try to imagine a line as a sequence of points you can do it but only by playing mental games with the extra dimensions. Case, I got my info at: http://science.hq.nasa.gov/universe/science/expanding.html And the majority of it here http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Cosmos/HierarchUni.html The balloon analogie was to express that the galaxies are expanding with space not So much as In space...I think the NASA site uses a raisen bread metaphor..which Perhaps is alittle better. You had posted a site awhile back that explained the theory of the 10 dimensions and how Other theories were derived by 2-d vs. 3-d v.s 4-d and what you stated occurred to me also, How can a 2-d aware object "be aware" of anything that applied to a 3-d world? 2-d strictly, is Conceptual. Those 2-d concepts are then applied to a 3-d world, which really have no real Relavence. They make for neat ideas but rationally I have trouble with it. -Ron moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
