I saw this theory in a magazine article. I think it's really interesting. But I don't really know much about this! Anyone out there has the answer?
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Before we take on the four-dimensional Universe first a two-dimensional example. \n\nImagine a two-dimensional plane. An ant walking on it can go in any direction, without finding a boundary. Secondly if it keeps walking in one direction, it will never come back on the same place. The plane is infinite, without bounds.\n\nNext the surface of a two-dimensional sphere. This time the walking ant again will not come to a boundary, but he will, after some time, come back to the some place. The sphere is without bounds, but finite.\n\nWe see that these two ant Universes are different, although a shortsighted ant, would never be able to distinguish the two.\n\nNext lets move to our Universe. We are short-sighted ants too. Our telescopes can not see far enough to distinguish if we are in the three-dimensional equivalent of the sphere of the plane. \n\nAnd it is even worse. As we are living in three dimensions  more complicated space are possible. Imagine we are living in a cube, a special one with the following property. As soon as we leave the cube through one side, we enter it again on the side opposite where we left. This space is the 3-dimensional equivalent of a torus.\n\nYou see were we go: in three dimensions more complicated space are possible. One is the dodecahedral universe you mention. It has the shape of a dodecahedral, again with the property that if we leave through one side, we enter through another.\n\nImplausible? Maybe. Maybe not. At present we really have no way to tell. Just as the short-sighted ant.
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What a sick, but important question.I have no idea,but that guy with the stand side by side theory is really wierd,come on!  LOL
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I can't help with Unified Theory, but here's the way a professor explained string theory to me.\n\nImagine that you have a tightrope, and that an elephant is walking on it.  To that elephant, there is only one dimension - the elephant can move forward, and it can move backwards, but it can only move along that straight line.\n\nNow picture that same tightrope, but instead of an elephant, an ant is walking along it.  Like the elephant, the ant can also move forwards and back along the tightrope.  However, the ant can also walk all the way around the tightrope (apparently ants are good at clinging to things while upside-down).  For the ant, there are two possible dimensions - the forward and back one, and the around one.\n\nString theory is basically the idea that there are more dimensions than we realize.  We as humans are the elephant of the previous example - we see only three dimensions, with a potential 4th in terms of time.  According to string theory, there are ants in the world that can access more than these three or four dimensions that we are aware of.  String theorists are currently trying to prove that this is the case.
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Finally a way for me to pick up that 7-10 split!  :)\n\nI agree with the basic premise of oscillating assuming a vacuum (since we are assuming no molten core, why not a vacuum as well?).\n\nBut, depending on the direction of the hole in relationship to the rotational axis of the earth, wouldn't the ball start bouncing against the sides of the hole due to the mechanics similar to that of a Foucault Pendulum?
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The theories could very well be true, unless proven otherwise. If you are looking at it from the theological point of view, then consider this:\n\nThe original ingredients for the single cellular organism from which all life on earth originated must have been placed there by some greater power. Maybe from time to time that power guided evolution to humanity, and maybe later that power will guide evolution to some beings better than us?
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That is an awesome point and I never really thought about it like that till you said this.  Thank you for sharing your point of view.  It was scintillating.  I'm not trying to be smart, I'm very serious.  Thank you!
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Interesting...but is there truly any way to know for sure?  It's like the Shroud of Turin, there's so much controversy that the true science in it is lost.  I think that it's the general consensus that will influence the possibilities of orgin and usage (scary, huh).
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I hunted all over.. interesting question.. I found the link for you to browse. I learned some new information I had no idea about as well. Thank you. LL.
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Very interesting theory. To get people to grasp the concept of the size of one universe is difficult, (Douglas Adams touched on this in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe, "Amazingly big multiplied by stupendously large....... etc") , so to ask people to think in terms of multiverse is difficult enough, (I have no major problems with the concept.)........., then to throw in the concept of one god per universe in a multiverse, ...phew...! I prefer to think of one creator of everything, simplistic I know, but easy for me to grasp.
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Interesting article. I hadn't seen anything about this before.
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This one has been done before, but it's still awesome.\n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp
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this is one of phylosophical questions i really like! but i also don't know the answer for sure. just according to my logical mind, i think the answer is YES. if it's not something, people will not be willing to find a word to describe it. and the space is not nothing because without it everything will be crazy.
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There is a madsci article about this question at: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb98/888691550.Ph.r.html\n\nHope that helps...the site discusses the hypothesized origins...
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I've heard of this also.Someone asked a pretty scary question about this topic on here a little while back. I feel that they could be either some form of interdimensional entity,or possibly left over residual negative energy.
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I'm thinking that there probably isn't enough information here to figure it out... this is a pretty vague.  I wish you luck, though!
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I truly believe everyone has it backwards.  What if our "linear history" is actually severe misinterpretation of the data?  What if there really are “Earth Age Civilization Cycles” in which what we consider to be our historical “primordial beginning” is merely the Post-catastrophic aftermath to a former global technoculture that was wiped off the face of the Earth via a celestial onslaught, and what if the post-catastrophic survivors were catapulted into a “State of Neobarbarism” to begin the slow and gradual process of re-civilization all over again?  What if there have been several of these cycles?  What if terrestrial civilization has always been recurrent and cyclic with the development of several periodic global technocultures responsible for the amazing and titanic stone artifacts of antiquity littered throughout the world?  What if these highly advance and technological bygone Earthly civilizations were destroyed by some recurrent cosmocataclysm like clockwork every 12,000 years just as Plato claimed?  What if Earth was the original "seed" from which life dispersed “into” the Solar System, “into” the Galaxy and “into” the Universe?  What if “extraterrestrials” are merely returning to their home planet, Earth, and these beings are actually the descendents and/or creations from these utterly ancient global technocultures that once thrived upon the Earth?  What if the “Grays” were originally engineered by former human scientists from these former technocultures? What if the Grays are biocyborgs preprogrammed to collect and harvest genetic material and human DNA for the sole purpose to “reactivate” intelligent life on Earth in the Post-Cosmocataclysmic Period, a sort of “Noah’s Ark Project”?  What if other “alien species” were actually engineered hybrids from these utterly ancient scientific labs of past Earth Age civilizations for various purposes?  What if some revolted against their human creators and took refuge in space to escape the recurrent cosmocataclysm?  What if other planetary civilizations in the galaxy and Universe were actually seeded by us, e.g. by our ancestors from these extinct Earthly global technocultures?  What if they seeded life on Mars at one time, but the cosmocataclysm that destroyed our advanced Earthly ancestors also destroyed the civilization on Mars?  Yes, I truly believe everyone has it backwards.\n\nThe inception of human life requires hundreds of millions of sperm in the Universe of the Womb for just “one” sperm to successfully impregnate the one lone egg and bring forth life.  Could not this also be true on a macrocosmic level in the massive Womb of the Universe where countless stars are actually “required” to bring forth one star with life?  Hence, it may be that Earth is that one special seed of life?  This may be the exception and not the rule.  Indeed, I do believe everyone has it backwards.
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This could be linked, but Im not a doctor so I cant say.  it may be worth looking at and reading.\n\nPS I hope it helps.