The idea that the forces, particles and interactions that we see today are all manifestations of a. and by folding our space as appropriate, connect two previously-disconnected locations, enabling what would appear as near-instantaneous teleportation without violating the laws of relativity.remove us from our three-dimensional space and place us down anyplace else,.insert, remove, or rearrange something inside of us,.perform surgery on us without cutting us open,.In particular, someone who accessed the fourth dimension could:
What an extra dimension could do for us - if we were willing to add a fourth one - is very similar to what a third dimension would enable an outside party to do to a two-dimensional creature. People have long been exploring the idea of extra dimensions, including how they could solve many of cosmology's greatest problems, and even explain why we have three spatial dimensions and the Universe we do today. So now let's come to our Universe as we know it: with three spatial dimensions. Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks Extra dimensions bring with them extra possibilities. The four-dimensional analogue of a 3D cube is an 8-cell (left) the 24-cell (right) has no 3D. In short, we would appear like Gods to a creature living in one fewer dimension than our own. or even fold the page so that two disconnected locations overlapped, and almost-instantly transfer that creature from one location to the other.lift it off of the page and place it down anyplace else back on the page,.reach in and remove or add anything into its interior,.Armed with your three-dimensional arms (and, if you prefer, a pencil and an eraser), you could easily do the following: It also has an interior that isn't: everything on the inside.
of Wikimedia CommonsĪ two-dimensional creature has an outside that's exposed to the world: the outline of its body. If spacetime has additional dimensions, it may be possible to travel practically instantaneously from one location to another by taking advantage of the freedom that an additional dimension permits. In Einstein's relativity, mass curves the fabric of spacetime. Imagine the creatures that live on that sheet of paper, and - in true Flatland style - what an encounter with someone who could manipulate the third dimension would be like.įlamm's paraboloid, shown here, represents the spacetime curvature outside the event horizon of a. To understand how, imagine a Universe with two spatial dimensions, like the surface of a piece of paper. If the Universe had an additional dimension of space, and - most importantly - the capability of allowing objects existing in our three spatial dimensions to utilize the fourth dimension for travel, then everything that the spore drive imagines becomes possible. Unless, that is, you were willing to make one small alteration to the known laws of physics: add in a fourth spatial dimension, to bring us up five dimensions (including time) total. NASA / Digital art by Les Bossinas (Cortez III Service Corp.), 1998 If instead of warping through the space of our 3D Universe, you traversed through a different, additional dimension, you could connect two disparate locations almost instantaneously. mouth moving relativistically relative to the other, observers at either traversible end would have aged by vastly different amounts. If you created a wormhole between two points in space, with one. Even if these spores were quantum mechanically entangled, they could not be used to teleport matter, or even to communicate faster-than-light.Īlthough it might be a fun sci-fi idea, the science behind it is untenable.The problem is that mycelium is an advanced form of life that required billions of years of evolution on Earth before existing it could not have arisen in other solar systems, galaxies, or universes. Mycelium does form an enormous network here on Earth, but this is due to its connected root structure.
The original paper that contended this was debunked here and here. But animals cannot do horizontal gene transfer only bacteria can.
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