posted on Jan, 5 2006 @ 12:28 PM
While it is true that current string theory suggests there are 11 dimensions, 10 spatial and 1 temporal, and they would have different physical
properties, they would also be within the same physical universe and govern us today, though we don't notice them. Dr. Richard Wolfson has a great
analogy. If you were to look at an ant standing on a string from a distance, it would appear that ant can only move in two directions, back and forth.
Yet, magnify it, and you can see the ant could also walk around the string, not just back and forth. The other 7 spatial dimensions theorized are on
an extremely small scale, and we perceive them as we do the rope in that example. While looking from a distance as the ant went around the rope, it
would appear the ant would shrink in its height, and then suddenly start to reappear on the other side of an apparent border. The ant is still
governed by the same laws of physics that apply to us, but it can travel in a dimension we can't perceive.
However, the problem with theorizing a spacecraft can enter these spatial dimensions defined by string theory is that the dimensions are extremely
small. We're not talking about anything as large as an angstrom unit, but the plank length. So somehow, the magnetic field would have to condense an
engine, spacecraft, and travelers down to a size smaller than an electron in order to take advantage of other spatial dimensions as defined by string
String theory, though, is exactly that. It could be that there are macro spatial dimensions we can't perceive, I dunno. Or maybe I'm just
misperceiving what you're saying Centrist.