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.
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Yaay! I’ve hypothesized that God and science CAN coexist! I love thinkng outside the box.
Oddly enough I’ve never equated quantum mechanics, string theory and all that sub atomic level of existence with the proof that there is no God, hell, only a Supreme Being could figure it all out and keep it running! I can vaguely grasp these quantum concepts but the theory of multiple universes, where every action I do or do not do does not sit right to me just like time travel does not seem possible or even logical to me. Maybe we could travel to the future but I have my doubts about traveling back to the present. Multiple universes seem like a physicist’s lazy way out of problem solving… “Well this don’t make sense,” “Right, but in another universe it does!”
Strange though that I believe if we do figure out time travel it would prove the multiple universe theory. It would be the only plausible solution to someone traveling back in time, screwing with history then smegging off back to the future.
You hear that? That was my brain exploding. Thanks man!
God would be the outside time, the 7th dimension, his number
You bring up an extremely valid point – that makes perfect sense, and is sound with the rest of this as well! =D