God and the Multiverse – or – Why I Don’t Think the TARDIS Will Ever Exist.

On 11.28.09, In God and Christianity, Quantum Buzzkill, By Alexander

That’s a Dr. Who reference for those who don’t know XD.
If you haven’t already, you should read my exploration of the fifth (and subsequently, sixth) dimension here.  It will help form the basis behind this article and why i’m talking about all this multiple paths nonsense.
By default, the creation of a multi-dimension theory denies any possible presence of God – due, in no small part, to the fact that, if there are multiple universes, how could there be one God, and how could there possibly be anyway that He has control over our lives?
In short – He doesn’t.  He never claimed that He did.  He claims that we, as humans, have free will and that we can choose our own paths through life – He just happens to know beforehand what we are going to choose.  This does not mean that we are going to be able to make every decision in a snap with no forethought – when was the last time that you made a massive financial decision without weighing the options?  Think about it this way – you know that the sun will rise tomorrow morning, right?  And does you knowing what the sun will do force it to do so, or conversely, if you didn’t know that the sun would be rising tomorrow, would that prevent it?  No – you can know something will or will not happen – without a doubt, and this knowledge does not inherently make such an occurrence true – it is the event itself that makes the event exist.
This case, of course, brings us back to multidimensional thought – specifically, the fifth and sixth dimensions.
The existence of God and the existence of multiple universes – multiple dimensions (beyond 4) are not mutually exclusive.  We know that there have to be 4 dimensions – because we have the third dimension – the space we exist in – and we have the time that we move through in order to get from one point to another along the string of our lives (Do you see what i did there?  String?).  The fifth dimension is simply building upon the fourth – it is the branching possibility from a decision that we made in our life.  In our existence we only have evidence on a single path through time, and that is our fourth dimension, but the expanding possibilities of said points in time are the fifth dimension – the actions that could have taken us to other paths but didn’t.  God simply knows what we are going to do – but conversely, even in the event that the other possibilities were in existence (as in we had actual evidence of their existence) they would still fit in the thought of a single God in existence over everything, for if God is capable of knowing every action that we are going to make, then He is also aware of each and every consequence of our actions, in effect, proving the existence of a fifth dimension.
Whether or not those dimensions actually have substance is debatable.  By virtue of the fact that you can imagine the existence of the additional possibilities that could occur does not necessarily mean that they exist – just like you knowing the sun will rise does not prove its occurrence – one would have to assume that God’s knowledge of the additional branches doesn’t make them exist, however, God in Himself is far more a powerful being than we – and it’s possible that through the power that is God, He could create single strings of lives that are constant through all realities – in the event that the possibility of their existence proves their existence, allowing for the final culmination of all existences to be the same (or remarkably similar) in accordance with our belief.
This in turn, of course, proves the existence of the sixth dimension – the combination of the previous five within one single point.
That said – it would be incredibly improbable that a TARDIS or similar time and dimensional hopping device would be able to exist without disturbing the existence of these additional dimensions – if the fifth dimension is the possibility of other realities based on our own actions – wouldn’t the creation of a device that can traverse dimensions create an irreparable rupture in the dimension in the first place?  If one were to go and adjust the traversal of the fourth dimension by traveling among the various fifth dimensions create an issue with the actual creation of these dimensions, combining all dimensions into one common dimension?  By the nature of of the fact the the other dimensions are created by the thoughts and possibilities of actions within one dimension (and each other one thereof) it would be inherently impossible that one could create a device that would unify two or more different realities.
I think i broke my brain.
/A\V/

That’s a Dr. Who reference for those who don’t know XD.

If you haven’t already, you should read my exploration of the fifth (and subsequently, sixth) dimension here.  It will help form the basis behind this article and why i’m talking about all this multiple paths nonsense.

By default, the creation of a multi-dimension theory denies any possible presence of God – due, in no small part, to the fact that, if there are multiple universes, how could there be one God, and how could there possibly be anyway that He has control over our lives?

In short – He doesn’t.  He never said that He did.  He says that we, as humans, have free will and that we can choose our own paths through life – He just happens to know beforehand what we are going to choose.  This does not mean that we are going to be able to make every decision in a snap with no forethought – when was the last time that you made a massive financial decision without weighing the options?  Think about it this way – you know that the sun will rise tomorrow morning, right?  And does you knowing what the sun will do force it to do so, or conversely, if you didn’t know that the sun would be rising tomorrow, would that prevent it?  No – you can know something will or will not happen – without a doubt, and this knowledge does not inherently make such an occurrence true – it is the event itself that makes the event exist.

This case, of course, brings us back to multidimensional thought – specifically, the fifth and sixth dimensions.

The existence of God and the existence of multiple universes – multiple dimensions (beyond 4) are not mutually exclusive.  We know that there have to be 4 dimensions – because we have the third dimension – the space we exist in – and we have the time that we move through in order to get from one point to another along the string of our lives (Do you see what i did there?  String?).  The fifth dimension is simply building upon the fourth – it is the branching possibility from a decision that we made in our life.  In our existence we only have evidence on a single path through time, and that is our fourth dimension, but the expanding possibilities of said points in time are the fifth dimension – the actions that could have taken us to other paths but didn’t.  God simply knows what we are going to do – but conversely, even in the event that the other possibilities were in existence (as in we had actual evidence of their existence) they would still fit in the thought of a single God in existence over everything, for if God is capable of knowing every action that we are going to make, then He is also aware of each and every consequence of our actions, in effect, proving the existence of a fifth dimension.

Whether or not those dimensions actually have substance is debatable.  By virtue of the fact that you can imagine the existence of the additional possibilities that could occur does not necessarily mean that they exist – just like you knowing the sun will rise does not prove its occurrence – one would have to assume that God’s knowledge of the additional branches doesn’t make them exist, however, God in Himself is far more a powerful being than we – and it’s possible that through the power that is God, He could create single strings of lives that are constant through all realities – in the event that the possibility of their existence proves their existence, allowing for the final culmination of all existences to be the same (or remarkably similar) in accordance with our belief.

This in turn, of course, proves the existence of the sixth dimension – the combination of the previous five within one single point.

(This last paragraph is pure nonsensical ramblings.  Read at your own risk)

That said – it would be incredibly improbable that a TARDIS or similar time and dimensional hopping device would be able to exist without disturbing the existence of these additional dimensions – if the fifth dimension is the possibility of other realities based on our own actions – wouldn’t the creation of a device that can traverse dimensions create an irreparable rupture in the dimension in the first place?  If one were to go and adjust the traversal of the fourth dimension by traveling among the various fifth dimensions create an issue with the actual creation of these dimensions, combining all dimensions into one common dimension?  By the nature of of the fact the the other dimensions are created by the thoughts and possibilities of actions within one dimension (and each other one thereof) it would be inherently impossible that one could create a device that would unify two or more different realities.

I think i broke my brain.

/A\V/

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Thinking in the Fifth Dimension

On 11.28.09, In God and Christianity, Quantum Buzzkill, By Alexander

This is based on what I understand the multiverse to be.  It may be wrong – this is all theory anyway.
We are all familiar with the first through third dimensions.  These are elementary – the first dimension is simply a point – imagine a one pixel square on your monitor.  It’s hard to see, and kind of not-really-there.  The second dimension is simply something that has a length – say, a line between two points.  When you draw something on a piece of paper – it’s essentially in two dimensions.
Three dimensions, that’s easy to imagine, because we live in it – the third dimension allows us to move within an area of space.  You, the computer you’re reading this on, the desk, couch, chair, whatever you are sitting at, these all exist within three dimensions – when you walk or move, that is within three dimensions.  The fourth dimension, however, is where things get a little complicated.  Your life is in the fourth dimension, and is represented by a line that follows you from birth to death, kind of like a blurry smear through time.  Imagine that you have someone cataloguing you with a camera that captures your position in three diminutional space every minute of your life, and they then put that frozen you statue up behind you after they’ve taken the shot.  You’d end up with a very crowded life, for sure, as there would be all these statues – probably quite creepy – piled up behind you, but you could get a look at the path your life has travelled in the past.  When we look at photos from the past and catalogue them in a memory journal, we are building such a line in time.  To complete the image, though, that same person stalking you would have to be able to go into the future and plot all the statues that are going to exist for you on your current path.  Now, to make things more complicated, they have to do this all at the same time, so instantly, your life is laid out both before you and behind you.  Imagine that you are, at this point, hopping from the last statue to the next along this path.  That’s the fourth dimension – a line in time, from beginning to end.
We can extend our own lines, before our birth and after our death, because the atomic matter that makes each of us up both came from somewhere, and goes somewhere – it never ends.  you mother and fatter produced you, those cells are matter, your mother ate food whited helped you grow in utero, and after your death, the worms will munch on you in your grave, making your matter continue on the path of lives.  Somewhere in you you probably have an atom that came from Lincoln or something.
But that’s neither here no there.
When you think in the fourth dimension, it’s like casting your mind forward to a known point in time.  If you have an itch, and you scratch it, but before you scratch it, you know that you are going to feel relieved, you have thought forward along the fourth dimension.  If you jump off of a 15 story building, but before you do so, you imagine yourself smashing into the concrete below, you have identified the last point on your living fourth dimension.
Now, let’s jump to the fifth dimension.  Fun right?
In the fifth dimension, we have all of the possible outcomes of every action that could be made in the fourth.  We humans think in the fifth dimension all the time, when we weigh consequences of our actions.  Lets go back to the rooftop, and assuming you aren’t in a drunken state of mind, you decide to stop and think about what you are doing.  Instead of just imagining the fall and subsequent splat that comes afterward, you decide to imagine the other possibilities that are available to you.  You could jump off of the rooftop, and go splat.  We’ll call that possibility 1.  Let’s say that the second possibility is that you grab a bedsheet to make a crude parachute before you jump – still likely to result in a splat, just a less messy one.  The third possibility is that you could turn around and face whatever is chasing you to this precipitous point in time – say… the cops.  This will result in you probably going to jail.  Fourth possibility is that you could maybe hide behind something on the roof and hope that no-one finds you.  You’ve just imagined in the fifth dimension, however, since we are only third dimensional beings, we can only take one of those possible outcomes to fruition.  The fifth dimension is where all the other possibilities happen.
Now, let’s imagine Mr. Creepy Stalker with the three dimensional camera comes along, and he takes pictures of not only the current timeline of whatever you decide – whether it be splat or jail – but all the other possibilities as well, thus making them a reality – all of them are happening.  Now, imagine that he has done this for every possible situation in every decision and movement of your entire life.  Not only would you have a very good grounds for a very awesome lawsuit, but he would have catalogued the sixth dimension of your life – every possibility of every event of every second of your life – all happening at the same point – notice point, not time – we’ve graduate past time here.
Damn.
Read the second article on this topic here.

This is based on what I understand the multiverse to be.  It may be wrong – this is all theory anyway.

We are all familiar with the first through third dimensions.  These are elementary – the first dimension is simply a point – imagine a one pixel square on your monitor.  It’s hard to see, and kind of not-really-there.  The second dimension is simply something that has a length – say, a line between two points.  When you draw something on a piece of paper – it’s essentially in two dimensions.

Three dimensions, that’s easy to imagine, because we live in it – the third dimension allows us to move within an area of space.  You, the computer you’re reading this on, the desk, couch, chair, whatever you are sitting at, these all exist within three dimensions – when you walk or move, that is within three dimensions.  The fourth dimension, however, is where things get a little complicated.  Your life is in the fourth dimension, and is represented by a line that follows you from birth to death, kind of like a blurry smear through time.  Imagine that you have someone cataloguing you with a camera that captures your position in three diminutional space every minute of your life, and they then put that frozen you statue up behind you after they’ve taken the shot.  You’d end up with a very crowded life, for sure, as there would be all these statues – probably quite creepy – piled up behind you, but you could get a look at the path your life has travelled in the past.  When we look at photos from the past and catalogue them in a memory journal, we are building such a line in time.  To complete the image, though, that same person stalking you would have to be able to go into the future and plot all the statues that are going to exist for you on your current path.  Now, to make things more complicated, they have to do this all at the same time, so instantly, your life is laid out both before you and behind you.  Imagine that you are, at this point, hopping from the last statue to the next along this path.  That’s the fourth dimension – a line in time, from beginning to end.

We can extend our own lines, before our birth and after our death, because the atomic matter that makes each of us up both came from somewhere, and goes somewhere – it never ends.  Your mother and father produced you, those cells are matter, your mother ate food which helped you grow in utero, and after your death, the worms will munch on you in your grave, making your matter continue on the path of lives.  Somewhere in you you probably have an atom that came from Lincoln or something.

But that’s neither here no there.

When you think in the fourth dimension, it’s like casting your mind forward to a known point in time.  If you have an itch, and you scratch it, but before you scratch it, you know that you are going to feel relieved, you have thought forward along the fourth dimension.  If you jump off of a 15 story building, but before you do so, you imagine yourself smashing into the concrete below, you have identified the last point on your living fourth dimension.

Now, let’s jump to the fifth dimension.  Fun right?

In the fifth dimension, we have all of the possible outcomes of every action that could be made in the fourth.  We humans think in the fifth dimension all the time, when we weigh consequences of our actions.  Lets go back to the rooftop, and assuming you aren’t in a drunken state of mind, you decide to stop and think about what you are doing.  Instead of just imagining the fall and subsequent splat that comes afterward, you decide to imagine the other possibilities that are available to you.  You could jump off of the rooftop, and go splat.  We’ll call that possibility 1.  Let’s say that the second possibility is that you grab a bedsheet to make a crude parachute before you jump – still likely to result in a splat, just a less messy one.  The third possibility is that you could turn around and face whatever is chasing you to this precipitous point in time – say… the cops.  This will result in you probably going to jail.  Fourth possibility is that you could maybe hide behind something on the roof and hope that no-one finds you.  You’ve just imagined in the fifth dimension, however, since we are only third dimensional beings, we can only take one of those possible outcomes to fruition.  The fifth dimension is where all the other possibilities happen.

Now, let’s imagine Mr. Creepy Stalker with the three dimensional camera comes along, and he takes pictures of not only the current timeline of whatever you decide – whether it be splat or jail – but all the other possibilities as well, thus making them a reality – all of them are happening.  Now, imagine that he has done this for every possible situation in every decision and movement of your entire life.  Not only would you have a very good grounds for a very awesome lawsuit, but he would have catalogued the sixth dimension of your life – every possibility of every event of every second of your life – all happening at the same point – notice point, not time – we’ve graduated past time here.

Damn.

Read the second article on this topic here.

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