Imagining the 10th Dimension

[Peter]

OMG brain strain. I was cool up to 7 dimensions, and then... well, see how you get on:

www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

Cheers,
Peter

[lightmystic]

Wow! Thanks for posting that. That's so interesting, and is exactly my experience.

Still, every other new dimension that makes the old one a point made it a point on a continuum. Now there can be no more points
As the movie states, one point being all possible timelines in all possible existences in all possible creations, there's no other "point" that it can go to. That said it CAN (and in my experience does) curve back on itself to look something like a spindle torus:

mathworld.wolfram.com/SpindleTorus.html

Thus, completing the 10th dimension....

This stuff is amazing....

[Peter]

Have been enjoying listening to Monty Python's "The Galaxy Song" this morning (Lyrics).

I started thinking about how many stars there are, how many galaxies etc

Our own galaxy, the Milky Way contains 100-400 billion stars, and a 1999 estimate put the number of galaxies in the universe as 125 billion.

Interesting that stars to galaxies is the same order of magnitude as galaxies to universe. A calculation of the total number of stars in the universe (found here) goes:

There are something like 10¹¹ to 10¹² stars in our galaxy, and there are perhaps something like 10¹¹ or 10¹² galaxies.

With this simple calculation you get something like 10²² to 10²⁴ stars in the Universe. This is only a rough number, as obviously not all galaxies are the same, just like on a beach the depth of sand will not be the same in different places.

10²⁴ is a Septillion.

I wonder if that Hermetic maxim as above, so below holds here...

How many atoms in a cell? This webpage says 10¹⁴.

How many cells are there in the human body? This webpage says 50 - 75 trillion which (assuming we mean an American trillion) is 50 x 10¹²

I couldn't find a consistent answer to how many animals/mammals there are on earth, that might be the next step up.

On a hunch, I also looked up how big a Googol was, but it turned out to be 10¹⁰⁰.

I'll finish with a Douglas Adams quote:

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

[souley]

Peter you could read Douglas Hardings "Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth", if you want a lot of connections between the galactical level, the atomic, the whole, the nothing and everything inbetween:) And everything is of course deeply spiritual. But it is a pretty difficult read, atleast for me. It has to take it's time.

[alpha]

Peter, I enjoyed your post re. galaxys, You may like this site...
www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things.




13 THINGS SENT TO TRY US
Strive as we might to make sense of the world, there are mysteries that still confound us.

Michael Brooks presents thirteen of the most perplexing. Cracking any one of them could yield profound truths.
1.
Axis of evil
(Image: WMAP / NASA)

Radiation left from the big bang is still glowing in the sky – in a mysterious and controversial pattern
2.
Dark flow
The galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56, 3.8 billion light-years away, is one of hundreds that appear to be carried along by a mysterious cosmic flow (Image: NASA / STScI / Magellan / U.Arizona / D.Clowe et al)

Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed

[Peter]

Interesting link, thanks Alpha!

Thanks also Souley, I've added that book to my wish list. Odd that it costs more 2nd hand than new?!

[alpha]

interesting site re birth/death rates on mother earth...

www.breathingearth.net/

[lightmystic]

Great site. thanks!

Don't forget this one: www.theonion.com/content/news/world_death_rate_holding_steady_at

Nov 5, 2009 15:34:50 GMT -5 alpha said:

interesting site re birth/death rates on mother earth...

www.breathingearth.net/