Michu Kaku: Hyperspace

Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:47 am by Mike G

but its great in maths class, where when the teacher says parralel lines must not touch, i can say well actually they do

That sentence led me to believe that if you brought this up in class and contradicted what the teacher was trying to teach to the rest of them via your superior intellect... you would be disrupting said class.
That is a fact, not theory

My concern wasn't for your education, it was everyone else who would have to suffer your disruption... (if you did undertake that in class).

As for whether you are more intelligent than some of us (me) - no doubt you are, I didn't infer you weren't... but it doesn't mean people won't understand the concepts. Stephen Hawking wrote "A brief history of time" - specifically to explain physics concepts upon the origins of the universe etc. You didn't need to be a theoretical physicist to understand his text at all... it was for the common layman.

However, your statement that we couldn't understand it is making assumptions.
Kind of reminds me when we went to hospital due to a girl having a brain haemorrage. The doctor was trying to describe some process or something and said "I won't explain the process, because you'd need to be a particle physicist to understand". The girls aunt promptly said "I am a particle physicist - explain away".

In other words, don't underestimate your unknown audience .

Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:05 am by .Tawakalna

edit:- purpose served I think

Edited by - .Tawakalna on 10/10/2005 10:27:41 AM

Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:11 am by gromit

LOL!!!

As funny as that is matee you may want to stick a PG-13 certificate on it, Mr Responsible Moderator Bloke. After all, we're not allowed to say **** or ****...or even **** for that matter

EDIT: I didn't realise that one of the major swear words was uncensored!!??

EDIT: it made my point to the person concerned, and that was sufficient. but it was very funny, wasn't it...

EDIT: Blimey its like being possessed. Can you make my head spin too?

Edited by - gromit on 10/10/2005 10:12:05 AM

Edited by - .Tawakalna on 10/10/2005 10:29:02 AM

Edited by - gromit on 10/10/2005 10:45:03 AM

Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:46 am by .Tawakalna

yes. but that's because you are made of plasticine. got any burns btw?

Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:01 am by gromit

don't joke, thats my family going up in smoke I'll have you know!

Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:39 am by Indy11

Michio Kaku, the author of Hyperspace is one of many who currently promote the concept of a multidimensional multiverse.

Also a theory sometimes thought to be convergent with String Theory if not being a component of the Theory itself.

The notion that parallel lines in our four known dimensions actually may intersect in other ones beyond the four is not impossible but, from our perspective in the four known dimensions and with our current needs for existence, relatively without meaning.

To say that parallel lines "in fact" intersect and is an accurate representation of what Kaku wrote is, at least, an overstatement and may very well be an "wrong" answer were a test given on the subject.

Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:03 am by .Tawakalna

wasn't there a pseudo-metaphysical novel based on this theory? hyperspatial cubes and intersecting infinite lines, i just don't remember what it was called. not *Quincunx* although that covered similar territory iirc.

Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:38 am by Indy11

You don't mean this type of quacky stuff about Nibiru do you?

Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:45 am by .Tawakalna

no. now you're hurting my head.

Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:09 pm by Recusant

.....that bleedin' weird timecube thing perhaps?

Edited by - Recusant on 10/10/2005 2:09:32 PM

Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:23 pm by Wizard

Quote from Wiki:

.....Some of the main assertions of this hypothesis are that time is cubic, that there are four simultaneous 24 hour days in one rotation of the Earth and that Gene Ray is wiser than all gods and scientists...

Especially that last bit of the sentence makes me wonder is he knows *whisper* John Byrne */whisper*?

Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:32 pm by Mike G

Perpetuator : May I ask what competition you are in which will take you to London, and possibly onwards to the USA to represent the UK?

I would be interested to know...

Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:59 pm by Argh

Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Narf! That if all parallel lines eventually converge in multidimensional mathematics, that we should see trains derail on a regular basis? That Picasso was a space alien, trying to teach us about hyperspacial transmathematics? That you can't knit knickers with knotty skewed lewd northern gnats?

No, Pinky. I'm pondering how to take over the world.

boredom relief

Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:18 pm by The Shroud (lurking)

ah string theory, very interesting but impossible to prove. also fairly unsettleing to know that my very existance will be re written by a giant man playing the symbols.

Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:22 pm by J Dawg

Well said Argh, well said.

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