Nature has a peculiar way to show its power. More often than not it is shown in its destructive forms. Deadly hurricanes and catastrohpic earthquakes just to name a few. Sometimes, the fairer side is put on display. Stunning panorama, eye candy sceneries and lush greeneries often come into mind in that aspect. Then again there are just some phenomenas that are outright mind boggling and inexplicable. Freakish if you will. Combinations of the aforementioned three features are not uncommon. Beautiful, yet deadly.Weird and fatal. You get the idea.

I read an article on National Geographic website featuring white lions today. Yes, white lions.The article can be found here.

Majestic,beautiful, and cute but no problem whatsoever when it comes to mauling a 150kg-250kg wildebeest in group . The notion of deadliness usually do not come across the mind of most people once they come across white animals which are not so usually. No thanks to images of adorable and cuddly snow white animals conjured in our minds which have been imprinted over the years misled by many causes. There is no denying that animals with snowy white fur like rabbits and hamsters are harmless. However, there are unexceptionally high exceptions in the animal kingdom in which it's opposite.

To be different than others of the same species in the animal kingdom means invoking dangers. Survival is at the top of list in the animal kingdom, predators and preys alike. For a prey to stand out among its species means an easy target for predators while a predator which can be easily detected is as good in hunting as polices announcing who they are going to arrest tomorrow in the news today. In fact, these black sheep are often than not isolated by their own groups. Isolation certainly shaves off survival chances of those in the animal kingdom, more so for animals who are live in groups.

So when I saw the article, the first thing that came up my mind is how are these cats going to survive in the wild. It turns out that they live in captivity. In fact, most of these cases happen in captivity. Reason? It's the same reason as mentioned above. They don't have much survival chance in the wild. In captivity, these animals are safe from so many wild elements. They don't even do much of what their species do in the wild: hunting, roaming and etc. I wonder if they still retain their animal instincts.

Further probing at Wikipedia for the reason for these abnormal occurences shows that genetic condition known as Leucism. Unlike mutation where genetic information is altered, leucism is a condition where recessive genes are present instead of dominant ones. A simple example is albinism. You would think that evolution would have eliminate these seemingly defective genes from the gene pool and survival of the fittest should have taken its course long ago. However, evolution is not as easy as that. If all but the fittest meet their ends, wouldn't the process of evolution cease? That's something to ponder upon.

Adieu, graynut signing off.

The previous post covered dimensions up to the sixth. The following video will cover the remainder. Buckle up your seatbelt, because it is going to get more bizarre.



In our description of our fourth dimension, we imagined taking the dimension below and conceiving it up as a single point.

The fourth dimension is a line which can join the universe as it was one minute ago to the universe as it is right now.

Or in the biggest picture possible, we can say that the fourth dimension is a line which joins the Big Bang to one of the possible endings of our universe.

Now as we enter the seventh dimension, we are about to imagine a line which treats the entire six dimensions as if it were a single point.

To do that, we have to imagine all the possible time lines which could have started from our Big Bang, joined to all the possible endings for our universe, a concept which we often refer to as infinity and treat them all as a single point.

So for us, a point in the seventh dimension would be infinity, all possible time lines which could have or will have occurred from our Big Bang.

When we describe infinity as being a point in the seventh dimension, we are only imagining part of the picture.

If we draw a seventh dimensional, we need to be able to imagine what a different point in the seventh dimension is going to be, because that's what our line is going to be joined to.

But how can there be anything more than infinity?

The answer, is there can be other completely different infinities created through initial conditions which are different from our own Big Bang.

Different initial conditions will create different universes where the basic physical laws such as gravity or the speed of light are not the same as ours.

And the resulting branching time line from that universe beginning to all possible endings, will create an infinity which is completely separated from the one which is associated our own universe.

So the line we draw in the seventh dimension,will join one of those infinities to another.

And as bar as going to the magnitude of what we are exploring here might be, if we are to branch off the seventh dimensional line to draw a line to yet another infinity, we've then be entering the eight dimension.

As we have explored already, we can jump from one point from any dimension to another, simply by folding it in the dimension above.

If our ant on the newspaper is a two dimensional flatlander, then folding its two dimensional world through the third dimension would allow it to magically disappear from one location and appear at a different one.

As we are now imagining the ninth dimension, the same rules will apply.

If we're to be able to simultaneously jump from one eight dimensional line to another, it would be because we're able to fold through the ninth dimension.

Before we discuss the first dimension, we could say that we first started out with dimension zero, which is the geometrical concept of a point.

A point indicates a location in a system, and each point is of undetermined size.

The first dimension then takes two of these points and joins them with a line.

When we imagine the fourth dimension, it was as if we're treating the entirely of the three dimensional space in a particular state as a single point and drawing a fourth dimensional line to another point representing space as if it is in a different state.

We often refer to the line that we have just drawn as time.

And in the seventh dimension, we treated all the possible time lines which could be generated from our Big Bang as if this is a single point and imagine drawing a line to a point representing all the possible time lines for a completely different universe.

Now, as we enter the tenth dimension, we have to imagine all the possible branches for all the possible time lines of all the possible universes and treat that as a single point in the tenth dimension.

So far so good.

But this is where we hit a roadblock.

If we're going to imagine the tenth dimension as continuing the cycle and being a line, then we are going to have to imagine a different a different point that we can draw that line to.

But there is no place left to go.

By the time we have imagined all the possible time lines for all possible universes as being a single point in the tenth dimension, it appears that our journey is done.

In string theory, physicists tell us that super string vibrating in the tenth dimension are what create the subatomic particles which make up our universe and all of the other possible universes as well.

In other words, all possibilities are contained within the tenth dimension which would appear to be the concept we have just built for ourselves as we imagine the tenth dimension built one upon another.

And you think understanding these ten dimensions as proposed by the string theory is easy?

E8 is a 57 dimensional solid with this group has a whooping 248 dimensions as quoted from US National Science Foundation (NSF).

More info on "Imagining the Tenth Dimensions" can be found at tenthdimension.com .

Stay tuned. Adieu, graynut signing off.

Every now and then, we come across problems involving dimensions in our daily lives. Possibly problems involving the 1st,2nd,3rd or even the 4th dimension. Little did we take the time to sit down and think if there's more than that. Perhaps it's the perception that thinking up bigger-than-life ideas should be done by mathematicians and scientists.

However, it never harms to at least grasp the idea of the world we are living in. In fact for that reason, I've included two videos which I found on Youtube which explains dimensions up to the tenth in fairly understandable manner to an average joe like me. For ease of understanding, I've provided the transcripts as well.

Warning : I advise you to just watch the video without referring to the transcript you can because it is awfully long.

Part 1



We start with a point.

Like the point we know from geometry, it has no size, no dimension, it's just an imaginary idea that indicates a position in a system.

A second point then can be used to indicate a second position, but it too is of undetermined size.

To create the first dimension, all we need is a line joining any two points.

A first dimensional object has length only, no width or depth.

If we now take our first dimensional line and draw a second line crossing the first, we have entered the second dimension.

The object we are representing now has a length and a width but no depth.

To help us with imaging the higher dimensions, we are going to represent our second dimensional object as being created using a second line which branches off from the first.

Now,let's imagine a race of two dimensional creatures called "flatlanders".

What would it be like to be a flatlander living in a two dimensional world?

A two dimensional creature would only have length and width as if they were the royalty on an impossibly flat card.

Picture this, a flatlander couldn't possibly have a digestive tract because the pipe from their mouth to their bottom would divide them into two pieces.

And a flatlander trying to view our three dimensional world would only be able to perceive shapes in two dimensional cross sections.

A balloon for instance, would start as a tiny dot, become a hollow circle which inexplicably grows to a certain size then shrinks back to a dot before popping out of existence.

And we three dimensional human beings would seem very strange indeed to a flatlander.

Imagining the third dimension is easiest for us because every moment of our lives that's where we are in.

A three dimensional object has length, width and height.

But here's another way to describe the third dimension.

If we imagine an ant walking across a newspaper which is lying on the table, we can pretend the ant as a flatlander, walking along a flat two dimensional newspaper world.

If that paper is folded in the middle, we created a way for our flatlander ant to magically disappear from one position in this two dimensional world and be instantly transported to another.

We can imagine that we did this by taking the two dimensional object and folding it to the dimension above which is our third dimension.

Once again, it will be more convenient for us as we imagine the higher dimensions if we can think of the third dimension in this way.

The third dimension is what you flow through and jump from one point to another in the dimension below.

Okay, the first three dimensions can be described with these words; length, width and depth.

What word can we assign the fourth dimension?

One answer would be duration.

If we think of ourselves as we were one minute ago, and then imagine ourselves as at this moment, the line that we can draw from one minute ago version to the right now version, would be a line in the fourth dimension.

If you are to see your body in the fourth dimension, you will be like a long undulating snake, with your embryonic self at one end and your deceased self at the other.

But because we live from moment to moment in our third dimension, we are like our second dimensional flatlanders.

Just like that flatlander that can only see two dimensional cross sections of objects from dimensions above, we, as three dimensional creatures can only see three dimensional cross sections of our fourth dimensional self.

One of the most intriguing aspects of the being in one dimension stack on the other is that down here at the dimensions below we are unaware of our motions in the dimensions above.

Here is a simple example.

If we make a mobius strip, take a long strip of paper, add one twist to it and take the ends together, and draw a line down the length of it, our line will eventually be on both sides of the paper before it meets back itself.

It appears somewhat amazingly that this strip has only one side.

So it must be a representation of a two dimensional object.

And this means the two dimensional flatlanders traveling down the line we just drew will end up back where they start without ever feeling they have ever left the second dimension.

In reality, they would be looping and twisting in the third dimension even though to them it felt like they were traveling in a straight line.

The fourth dimension, time, feels like a straight line to us, moving from the past to the future.

But that straight line in the fourth dimension is, like the mobius strip, actually twisting and turning in the dimension above.

So the long undulating snake that is us would feel like it's moving in a straight line in the fourth dimension but they would actually be, in the fifth dimension, a multitude of paths that we can branch to it any given moment.

Those branches will be influenced by our own choice, chance and the actions of others.

Quantum physics tells us that the subatomic particles that make up our world are collapsed from waves of probabilities, simply by the act of observation.

In the picture we are drawing for ourselves here, we can now start to see how each of us are collapsing in undetermined way in the probable futures, contained in the fifth dimension, in the fourth dimensional line we are experiencing as time.

What if you want to go back to your own childhood and visit yourself?

We can imagine folding the fourth dimension through the fifth, jumping back through time and space to get there.

But what if you want to get to the world where, for example, you have created a great invention as a child that by now have made you famous and rich?

We can imagine our fourth dimensional self branching off from our current moment in the fifth dimension.

But no matter where you go from here, the great child inventor time line is not one of the available options in your current version of time.

You can't get there from here, no matter how much choice, chance and actions of the others become involved.

There are only two ways you can get into that world.

One would be travel back in time, somehow trigger the events that cause you to come up with your invention, then travel forth in the fifth dimension to see one of the possible new worlds that might have resulted.

But that would be taking the long way.

The short cut that we could take would involves us folding the fifth dimension through the sixth dimension, which allows us to instantly jump from our current position to a different fifth dimensional line.

Okay, that sums up the first part.

Intriguing, right?

Stay tuned for the second part or you can always folds the fifth dimension through the six one and continue reading my second part in another time line. Adieu, greynut signing off.