What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?

[polymath257]

What do you mean by higher dimensions?

I think it's pretty clear.

Do you believe the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th ect... dimensions exist?

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I don't understand enough super string theory to even begin to say exactly what the pesky 11 are let alone if they are real. Some physicists seem to think they are necessary to explain the behavior of particles but why I do not know.

Should your answer be no since you see no evidence of these other dimensions?

Yes. In addition to the three dimensions of space, there is at least 1 dimension of time. So that is 4 dimensions.

To include electromagnetism in a geometric formulation requires another, circular dimension. So that makes five dimensions (this 5th dimension is very small, though, and so is detectable mainly through the E&M force.

The weak nuclear force requires another 2 dimensions which again, are small and curved. This gives a total of 7 dimensions so far.

And finally, the strong nuclear force requires, 3 or 4 dimensions, similarly curved and small, to give 10 or 11, depending.


Since ALL of these forces are detectable and obey the formulations that use these dimensions, that is good reason to think these dimensions are real.

Now, in addition, there are *extensions* that add a fw dimensions for things like supersymmetry. These have not yet been detected.

And, finally, most formulations of Quantum Mechanics rely on a space of infinitely many dimensions for the computation of the probabilities (although for any specific problem only finitely many are used for approximation purposes).

And QM works incredibly well in describing the real world.