Sunday Morning Metaphysics

Apparently we made a whole bunch of new dimensions sometime between the last time I looked and now. I heard some guy on the Science Channel (yes I'll watch the Science Channel, you gotta fuckin problem with that?) talking about the 11th Dimension the other day. Something about either Supergravity or strings or something. Yeah String Theory I think. String Theory. Well it has an "official site" and addresses things called "elemental particles" and explains that matter, or even non-matter - I don't know - is made up of tiny strings. Like we have this idea that stuff is made of little particles but they're saying it's actually strings and such. Little elementals beneath the level of tiny tiny strings.

I have no idea why that's important to know except that it seems to have a meaning for everything else we have. Like if everything is made of strings the universe is something else than what we thought it was.

Or maybe it was bubbles. This universe is a bubble and there are other universes and the latest I've heard is that the Big Bang wasn't really a point in space/time exploding into whatever space replaces, but that the Big Bang was actually a collision between two of these universes - bubbles. And apparently that changes everything we thought we knew.

So everything we knew was wrong. Sheh... that keeps happening to me every other day, no news there.

It's like they used to say black holes may be a connector-point between universes or space-time or whatever. I don't know. But that's like been refuted I think and now there's bubbles.

They say this is important because, like space travel and quantum mechanics, the basic understanding of what "is" actually IS changes what we think we can do. And millions of years of the evolution of thought ends up morphing into cell phones that can take movies or something. Anyway it isn't the new ideas themselves, it's what the new ideas mean we can have ideas about. Or something.

Anyway I'm still working on the part of quantum mechanics that says there are things you can't naturally observe because just the act of looking at them changes where they really are.

Work that one over next time you're having a toddy.

I would have been a theoretical physicist or cosmologist or somewhere between the two but I never could grasp all those formulas. I could get into the airy theory but working out the math stopped me cold. So it's more fun to just make fun of it all, being ignorant as I am.

Oh and this probably isn't metaphysics either.

It's like, I don't know what space is expanding into. Like, what is space replacing as the universe expands? I asked a guy that once and he said "we can't ask that question." Which is when I became completely convinced we were talking about two different things.

Hey, good morning. Have your coffee yet?

/physics.