(March 23, 2014 at 10:48 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: But it seems possible that a 4 dimensional space would produce its entirely own unique structure by which it might produce something analogous to stars or planets or even intelligent beings, perhaps exhibiting some similar features and those as bizarre as Marsellus fantasizes.
You might be right....but in the case of a dust cloud floating in space...I think it remains a dust cloud and doesn't collapse into anything(I'm not sure about this but I am sure it doesn't collapse into an accretion disk).
In any event, I think you are being overly optimistic. There is no reason whatsoever that a 4d universe should conform to Marsellus's fantasies.
It could very well be that 3d is optimal for emergent complexity to happen given our physics....in fact I suspect that this is the case(don't ask me to substantiate because I can't....I'm running on intuition here).
