No, that's not a typo. God probably quite appreciates cosmologists. Who doesn't want to have others around them in awe of their work? When a surgeon pulls off a particularly brilliant bit of cranial surgery, does he tell the guy driving an ice cream truck or use it to go hit on nurses? I'm guessing the latter.
Most cosmologists are currently of the opinion that the Universe has eleven dimensions rather than the three we are able to perceive in day-to-day life.
At the other end of the spectrum, my dog normally lives in a two-dimensional world in which she can eat, pee, chase squirrels, smell things and beg for more food - in that order.
Last night, she suddenly experienced what many theorists dream of: a higher dimension. For whatever reason, she chose to turn her head in a new direction and look up at the perfectly clear sky. Sadly, she did not like this new world and ended up whingeing and howling at planes passing over us at tens of thousands of feet. She tracked three of them as they trailed across the sky toward the eastern horizon, sometimes barking at and sometimes cowering from them. Perhaps they were some new trick of the evil squirrels? Who can tell?
What's the lesson for cosmologists? Finding whole new dimensions may not be as fun as you thought. Moving from a limited world (in her case, that of grounded squirrels and interesting smells) to a much bigger and new one can reveal horrible things that will destroy your world.
Or maybe you'll just end up barking at higher-dimensional beings flying to Europe.
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(Transfered comment from this blog's former home on spaces.live.com)
Graybune wrote:
Maddie, the land shark, has always been aware of this higher dimension, with similar responses to it. When I moved into my first house we had a ceiling fan in the bedroom. Maddie would sit on the bed and bark at it. She has come to accept this other dimension and uses it now to only look at treed squirrels.
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