A Curious Correlation (Part One)

Of the many descriptions of the world that exist, the following two have caught my attention.

One is the so called 'string theory'. Basically it says that everything – on a sub quark level – is made up of strings of energy. These vibrate and resonate out that which we perceive and have come to call matter and the rest of it, ‘World’ for short.

The other is a description I have found in a series of books. Because some find it hard to suspend judgment, I'm not going to reveal the author just yet. (But also to create a bit of suspense.) If you're familiar with his works, you'll know from the following description who I'm talking about. But it basically says that everything is energy. Filaments of energy. As we perceive these filaments we "interpret" them and that's what we call World.

During my investigation into these two theories [here ‘theory’ and ‘description’ are pretty much interchangeable], I couldn't help but noticing a few similarities. And that's very interesting since one of these descriptions has its supposed space-time origin in Mesoamerica between 5000 BC and 1000 BC.

Let me illustrate.

String theory talks of a sea of stings of energy that make up everything. This other theory – which I from now on will call ‘mystery theory’ – describes a universe made up of filaments of energy stretching indefinitely in every direction. String theory requires more dimensions (math thing), proposes 11 dimensions. Mystery theory also says that there are many dimensions, actually way more than 11. Now mystery theory says that they – the filaments – are infinite in size. Note here that infinite doesn’t mean unthinkably gigantic or long or incomprehensibly small or short, just infinite, zero-dimensional, without spatial extension, non-local. Whereas string theory postulates that they are 1-dimensional lines of the plank length (which is 10^-33cm) - they do not possess height or width, just the length. (Of course they are unites of some definite size, they have to be blocks of something, we can’t have infinite/indefinite/non-dimensional things, we can’t risk losing our stable, solid, contained, predictable, “objective” existence! Sarcasm intended.) The extra dimensions in string theory are described as existing “parallel” to our three dimensions. Parallel in a metaphorical sense because they are bound up in and by the same strings that produce our three, and are therefore in respect to our 3-dimensional universe, non-dimensional. So they do not run parallel to our universe in a spatial sense. In other words the strings constitute all 11 dimensions including the only three we perceive, the rest are off limits for us, unobservable, they do not exist in our three dimensions. Mystery theory says that the extra dimensions are observable alright. But of course not from a point of view situated in one of our three dimensions. You’d have to be in a dimension to see it, would you not? There are about 200 available to us according to mystery theory. Now, it deserves noting that this number describes “working worlds” or coherent universes. The three dimensions we know can be said to constitute our current 3D universe. They are three facets of the same stone if you will. So note the difference between ‘universe’ and ‘dimension’. One and the same universe can be made up of many dimensions – some which can be perceived and some that can’t. String theory talks of 11 dimensions in this universe – three of which we perceive. The 200 dimensions in mystery theory is thus best understood as 200 “working worlds” in this universe, a world being one comparable to ours in the sense that it can be made up of multiple dimension like ours. And that’s a simplification really. Because the 200 “working worlds” are simply the number of worlds accessible to us. Other creatures have other dimensions available to them – some of which we are unable to perceive. Let me emphasize this point. String theory; 11 dimensions, three of which we can perceive. Mystery theory; an infinity of “working worlds”, 200 of which are accessible to us and one of which we are currently experiencing.

I could go on. And this isn’t even half of it. But … I’ll have to finish up later. And I've decided not to reveal who the author of this description is until I finish this post. So, stay tuned or do your research. I don't think it's too hard to find out where this comes from if you give it a real try.


Until next post - stay vigilant and enjoy the ride.