Eat Your Heart Out, Mr. Mxyzptlk!

It's official, my mind has been blown.

I'll admit that I'm a bit of a web junky. If someone were to tally up all of the time that I have wasted viewing completely useless things on the internet, I'm sure that I would want a do-over, although now time has completely changed meaning for me.

Let me explain: I was perusing one of the time wasting sites that I frequent from time to time, when I came across a video with the peculiar title of "Imagining the Tenth Dimension". The video was an animated short created by the author of a book that apparently explores the concepts of multiple dimensions. I'm not here to plug the book, but the video messed me up majorly.

(It is at this point that I suggest that you view the video for yourselves. Just Google "tenth dimension" and you'll find multiple sites on which to see it...it's ok, I'll wait right here until you're finished. I'm not going anywhere.)

I would also like to note that, although I will be employing some bizarre and, quite frankly, hippie-ish language, I am no hippie, nor do I use drugs for anything other than controlling my savage allergies. In fact, despite the cosmic nature of the subject in question, I would not advise anyone to watch the clip while high, as there exists the very real possibility that your eyeballs will explode within your skull and your mind will cave into itself, rendering you a dribbling, hollowed husk of a human being.

The scary part of the clip for me was that I actually understood what he was talking about. I had never really been able to conceptualize anything beyond three dimensions, but I took to it like a fish to water, especially in understanding how time works. Not only that, but the idea of the fifth and sixth dimensions seem to reconcile the argument between free will and predetination. Finally, all religions will be able to set aside all of their differences and work together to better society. There's even a place for God since physicists seem to hit a brick wall once they get to the tenth dimension. Perhaps most importantly however is the fact that since science has been able to explain alternate realities that exist completely idependent of our own where the laws of physics as we know them do not exist, coupled with the fact that bodies existing on a lower dimension are able to unwittingly travel through higher dimensions by "folding" them means one very important thing...cartoon violence is theoretically able to actually exist!

Although my mind has been thoroughly been wiped clean and rewritten, I'm not changing my entire worldview. The animation is but a simple means of explaining things that are so complicated that most mortals such as I would stroke out by simply looking at the math that proves this shit. Moreso, since we, as three dimensional bodies, are not capable of percieving higher dimensions, these extra dimensions really only exist on paper (or I suppose a massive super computer). Still, it's trippy as hell to think that science has actually been able to pin down the thing that stoners, poets, philosophers, and stoner-poet-philosophers have pondered since the creation of the human mind, plus a few things that would even cause H.P. Lovecraft to say "That's some pretty fucked up cosmic shit."

That's all until my next post, which actually already exists, but also doesn't exist in alternate possibilities, or could exist, but in a form that is completely foreign to our basis of reality. Or perhaps I've just wasted the last fifty minutes writing about something that makes absolutely no sense to anyone. Nah...that's not it.