Scientists recently postulated once again that there may be more dimensions than the four with which we are familiar, one time and 3 space, in our universe. One of the drives for this is to find a “theory of everything”. A number of years ago it was postulated that we may have eleven, or even more dimensions. Of course all of this is to get the mathematics to fit physicists observations. All of this speculation led me to wonder what happens to all of these additional dimensions – I mean – they have to exist somewhere so if not in our existence where? Maybe this is where parallel universes occur. The surplus dimensions are not imaginary after all. For instance in those other dimensions you decided not to eat those oysters and thus had a relaxing evening at home instead of in the emergency room in the hospital. Or it may be something quite different. Whole worlds of other creatures live under physical laws that are completely different to our own. For instance, the extra time dimension may flow in reverse. If there was only one extra space dimension they may share two space dimensions with us. For instance instead of me being 5′ 11″ I may be a say 6′ 7″ basket baller. Or maybe they got it wrong and there are 11 dimensions. extra time and space for several parallel universes. There could conceivably be dimensions where time is in 3 dimensions and space is only 2 where there are a multitude of lines going round and round in time, much like a linear Ground Hog Day. The possibilities are endless. This is the sort of stuff that keeps me awake at night.
Life – as I see it