Note:- Some parts of the blog are taken from an excerpt from an articleof Dr. Michio Kaku.I have just tried to make available everything to my readers at one place rather than searching it all over the net.
In his article Dr kaku has been able to explain the presence of more dimensions than only four . Yes there are four dimension we have in ourpresent understanding though most of us are familiar with only three .But there is a fourth one too, the TIME as a DIMENSION.I think now you can use your imagination and your logical reasoning to understand timeas a dimension. So let us concentrate on understanding the existence of more number of dimensions than these four.
Dr. Kaku has given an example from his childhood when he use to visit a pond nearby his residence . He would see carps swimming in there. Now let us assume that we are those carps and that pond is our universe.Wecan swim backwards and forewards, left and right . But we never thought to swim "up" beyond the lily pads that would be totally unimaginable and alien to us.Now think of an highly intuitive and full of imaginations carp scientist living in this universe of ours. He comes with an idea
of hyperspace i.e third dimension above the pond. He would immediately be labelled as a crank as soon as he spills out his theory to this world. Now think of an alien (let this alien be a human in this case) he pulls out
that carp from that pond into the 'hyperspace'. What a wondorous story thatcarp would tell to others! He won't take a breath in telling all the things he has seen , new laws of physics, beings who don't need fins to breathe, that can et sounds without creating a bubble. But the question was how could a carp scientist would know about the existence of humans if it were not pulled out of water. Dr kaku says that one day it rained and the raindrops formed ripple across the surface of the pond. Then that carp could see the rippling shadows on the surface of the pond.He could see the vibrations of the third dimensions clearly , though the third dimension itself would be invisible to him.These carps would then give a name to this force like light and gravity , hahaha how funny no such forces exist at all it is just the rippling water.
This is the same case with us, humans, today. We are blissfully living in our tiny little pond unaware of the unseen of the invisible of the uni-verses hovering just above us in the hyperspace. We are spending our life in those three spatial dimensions , confident of what we can see with our telescope is all there is and ignorant of the possibilty of ten dimensional hyperspace. Although we cant see these higher dimnesions but we can see and feel their ripples . We call these ripples gravity and light. And thus the theory of hyperpace would lie there forever due to lack of evidence and proofs.But as in the words of Dr. Kaku the theory, once considered the province of eccentrics and mystics, is being revived for simple reasons; it may hold the key to the greatest theory of all , THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING.
Yes it is 'the holy grail' of physics . Great scientist like Einstien havespent the last thirty years of his life chasing after this theory. He wanteda theory that could explain all the fundamental forces that governs the
universe; Gravity , Electromagnetism, Weak and Strong Nuclear forces. He was searching for an equation no longer than an inch that could be placed on the hat you were wearing but still so powerful that it could explain everything, from Big-Bang, exploding stars, to atoms and molecules , to the lilies of the field. He wanted to read the mind of God. Ultimately, Einstein failed in his mission. In fact, he was shunned by many of his younger compatriots, who would taunt him with the ditty, “What God has torn asunder, no man can put together.” But perhaps Einstein is now having his revenge. For the past decade, there has been furious research on merging the four fundamental forces into a single theory, especially one that can meld general relativity (which explains gravity) with the quantum theory (which can explain the two nuclear forces and electro- magnetism).
This is it for today , will post the second part of this pot soon, where we would try to understand dimensions higher than 5 as explained by Dr. M. Kaku.
In his article Dr kaku has been able to explain the presence of more dimensions than only four . Yes there are four dimension we have in ourpresent understanding though most of us are familiar with only three .But there is a fourth one too, the TIME as a DIMENSION.I think now you can use your imagination and your logical reasoning to understand timeas a dimension. So let us concentrate on understanding the existence of more number of dimensions than these four.
Dr. Kaku has given an example from his childhood when he use to visit a pond nearby his residence . He would see carps swimming in there. Now let us assume that we are those carps and that pond is our universe.Wecan swim backwards and forewards, left and right . But we never thought to swim "up" beyond the lily pads that would be totally unimaginable and alien to us.Now think of an highly intuitive and full of imaginations carp scientist living in this universe of ours. He comes with an idea
of hyperspace i.e third dimension above the pond. He would immediately be labelled as a crank as soon as he spills out his theory to this world. Now think of an alien (let this alien be a human in this case) he pulls out
that carp from that pond into the 'hyperspace'. What a wondorous story thatcarp would tell to others! He won't take a breath in telling all the things he has seen , new laws of physics, beings who don't need fins to breathe, that can et sounds without creating a bubble. But the question was how could a carp scientist would know about the existence of humans if it were not pulled out of water. Dr kaku says that one day it rained and the raindrops formed ripple across the surface of the pond. Then that carp could see the rippling shadows on the surface of the pond.He could see the vibrations of the third dimensions clearly , though the third dimension itself would be invisible to him.These carps would then give a name to this force like light and gravity , hahaha how funny no such forces exist at all it is just the rippling water.
This is the same case with us, humans, today. We are blissfully living in our tiny little pond unaware of the unseen of the invisible of the uni-verses hovering just above us in the hyperspace. We are spending our life in those three spatial dimensions , confident of what we can see with our telescope is all there is and ignorant of the possibilty of ten dimensional hyperspace. Although we cant see these higher dimnesions but we can see and feel their ripples . We call these ripples gravity and light. And thus the theory of hyperpace would lie there forever due to lack of evidence and proofs.But as in the words of Dr. Kaku the theory, once considered the province of eccentrics and mystics, is being revived for simple reasons; it may hold the key to the greatest theory of all , THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING.
Yes it is 'the holy grail' of physics . Great scientist like Einstien havespent the last thirty years of his life chasing after this theory. He wanteda theory that could explain all the fundamental forces that governs the
universe; Gravity , Electromagnetism, Weak and Strong Nuclear forces. He was searching for an equation no longer than an inch that could be placed on the hat you were wearing but still so powerful that it could explain everything, from Big-Bang, exploding stars, to atoms and molecules , to the lilies of the field. He wanted to read the mind of God. Ultimately, Einstein failed in his mission. In fact, he was shunned by many of his younger compatriots, who would taunt him with the ditty, “What God has torn asunder, no man can put together.” But perhaps Einstein is now having his revenge. For the past decade, there has been furious research on merging the four fundamental forces into a single theory, especially one that can meld general relativity (which explains gravity) with the quantum theory (which can explain the two nuclear forces and electro- magnetism).
This is it for today , will post the second part of this pot soon, where we would try to understand dimensions higher than 5 as explained by Dr. M. Kaku.
