How many dimensions did the universe have immediately after its birth? I don't seem to remember.?
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Unknown. We don't even know for certain how many there are now. There's at least three, but some scientific research indicates there may be as many as 11.
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The universe may be infinite in size, or it may be of only finite size. Doesn't the universe have to be infinite? It doesn't make any sense that it would be finite, then there would be some end or edge, and what would be beyond that?\n\nStrange as it may seem, the universe could be finite, a finite universe would not have to have any edges or an end, it could 'wraparound'. The universe could be curved. Huh? How could you curve the universe?\n\nAn analogy should help, consider the surface of the Earth. It looks flat and many children and ancient people might assume that it is flat and that it is either infinite or must have an end or edge somewhere.\n\nBut the Earth's surface is curved, it wraps around and closes in on itself. There is only a finite amount of area yet there is no ends or edges. The two-dimensional flat surface of the Earth is wrapped around into a sphere when viewed in three dimensions. If you set out flying westward in a plane, you will wraparound and eventually return to where you started, approaching from the east.\n\nThe universe may be a curved three-dimensional space that wraps around and closes on itself. If you set out in a spacecraft heading one direction, you could eventually return to the same spot from the opposite direction.\n\n \n\nA nice demonstration of the scale of the universe is to start with a view showing our galaxy and then zoom by a factor of ten once per second. Such a demonstration is done at http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ \n\nClick on this link and view the demo. Use your browser's Back button to return to this page after watching the demo.\n\n\nThe entire universe, or just the visible portion of the universe if its infinite, is roughly 27 billion light-years across. That's 159,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles. Our solar system, from the Sun to Pluto, is .00063 light-years across or 3,720,000,000 miles. That makes our solar system 42,700,000,000,000 times smaller than the whole universe.\n\nCan we put that into a more meaningful perspective? If the entire Earth's surface represents the whole universe, the solar system on that scale would be one-millionth of a meter wide, about 1/25,000 of an inch, the size of a single, small bacteria.
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I fear i had even thought about the ∞ dimension once. Nearly anything could be described as rotations there. It has took a long time to get a foot on earth again.\n\nTime is not the real 4th dimension. Perhaps c*t. Look at this 'Minkowski space' thingy:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space\n\nIf you measure across space AND time, there are negative distances. What shoud a negative distance mean in reality?\nIf you consider time as the 4th dimension, it is just a convenient way to write down long terms shortly or to visualize complex relations concisely. It isn't more than just mathematics.\n\n\n"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." \n\nAlbert Einstein (personally himself)
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A parallel universe is one of an infinite number of universes that is defined by the set of every decision ever made within it, which means everytime anything is presented with multiple courses of action, a new universe is created for every possibility. These universes will never intersect (thus, "parallel")\n\nEvery universe (in theory) has nine different dimensions (I believe there are four of space and five of time). Four of them (three of space, one of time) are tangible to us. The rest are seemingly intangible to us, but they still affect us. Kind of like how a harp string is realyy thin and hard to see, but you can hear its vibrations. I'm not really an expert on quantum string theory, though, so this is a really simple explanation (believe it or not). You may want to look more into that. \n\nOr, you might not care.
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There are in fact quite a lot of secrets of the world, I'll list a few:\n1. The world might be stranger than anyone could imagine.\n2. There could be 11 dimension in the world, 3 dimensions of lenght, width, and height, one dimension of time, and 7 curled up dimensions to small to be seen.\n\nImagine if you're holding a long stick real far, it would look like a 1 dimensional object, but if you get closer, you notice that it has 3 dimensions.  That's what they think about the 7 curled up dimensions, they're billions of billions of times smaller than an atom!\n\n3. There are at least 7*10^22 stars in the universe, that's 7 with 22 stars.\n\n4. There might be several parallel universes, some other universes could be 1mm beside you!\n\n5. Scientists now think that gravity may not be so weak after all, but a lot of gravity escapes into higher dimensions. \n\nThis intrigues an amazing possibility.  Since humans cannot see, hear, feel, smell, or taste the other universes, they think that they can communicate with other worlds using gravity.  For example, gravity phones might be developed in the future.\n\n6. Everything in the universes(all matter, forces, etc.) might be made up of tiny strands of vabrating energy called strings.  Strings are nearly 10^-34m small, that's 0.0000000000000000000000000000000001 metres small!\n\nThere are lots of other secrets, but these come to my mind first.
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The size of the universe in terms of length, width, height, time is in a state of flux. At any instant it may be expanding or contracting. The universe is generally accepted to be currently expanding. \n\nM Theory (the conglomeration of the 5 superstring theories) tells us that the universe is the result of, so called, “membranes” colliding in such a way that create a pocket of space which we call the universe. If M Theory is accurate, it is probable that there are many universes just as there are many planets, solar systems, and galaxies. \n\nFor more information:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_theory
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According to classical physics 3: length, wideth and depth.\nModern physics add to that a fourth dimension - time.\nThose we now for certain exist. But there could be more (as much as 10 or 11 according to superstring theory).
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No scientists or astronomers SAY that there is a 5th dimension. There is no direct, observable evidence that such a dimension actually does exist. Dimensions beyond the four we know of are only IMPLIED by certain solutions to mathematical equations used in what's known as string theory. String theory actually implies that there may be as many as 11 dimensions!
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I agree with you in part -- that heaven and hell are in other dimension(s) than our current physical universe.\n\nHowever I do not think we create these dimensions (God does).\n\nCordially,\nJohn\nhttp://www.GodSci.org
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Currently man believes or percieves only 3 spacial dimensions.  Height, length and depth.  String Theory, the unification theory of quantum and relative gravity hypothesizes up to 11 other spacial dimensions.  God resides where man can not comprehend and angels fear to tread.  Remember, the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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As the previous responder said, Einstein only knew of the existence of 4 dimensions. String theory accounts for the addition of other dimensions, but 10 is not universally accepted as the number of dimensions there are. String theory proposes 26 dimensions, while M-theory, the latest superstring theory to come out, created by Ed Witen, uses 11, and several other superstring theories use 10.
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Physics believes that there are 12 dimensions. The Bible seems to back that up.\n\nWe know four dimensions: height, width, length and time.
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This is not a physics question it belongs in religion or mythology! \n\nBut since you asked I'll tell you.  \n\nThere are places ('dimensions') that do not exist in our material world but are observable by only a limited number of humans, commonly refereed to as psychics. No scientist can find these 'dimensions'  with any instrument.  Only the enlightened (spiritual) human mind can find these entities and communicate with them.  \n\nVarious religions have various names for these unobtainable to most 'dimensions' .  The Hindus call it the Ashok record. The Buddhists recognize it's existence but say avoid this place just try to get to Nirvana. Most Christians just call it the 'Spirit world'....So the answer is yes. if you want to call it the '4th dimension'. Sure.  Everyone else calls it what they like why not you.\n\nOh and by the way, Angels and Demons do exist. I have seen and felt them!
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The universe is created by a thought consciousness which manifests in physical reality through a geometric blueprint that we call Sacred Geometry which repeats in cycle giving the illusion of linear time.\n\n12=1+2=3=third dimension - manifestation in 3D\n12 spiraling cones around 1 source = 13 = 4=4th dimension = time\nForming grid programs of eXperience - MatriX - Tricks - Trickster - Duality\nThe boX = 'X' or the hourglass='Z'\n'X' - As is above, So is Below - Emerald Tablets of Thoth=Hermes Trismegistus\nHermes The Magician - Magic - Tricks - Magi - Christ Consciousness Grid\nThoth the ancient Egyptian Scribe who wrote our program\nEmerald = Alchemy - Emerald City = OZ - The WiZard\nAlchemy Wheel of Consciousness based on the spiraling patterns of\nSacred Geometry = SG = StarGate = Wheel of Karma = Alchemy Wheel\nwhich spirals consciousness back to Source\nand is linked with the center - Eye of the Milky Way Galaxy - the Heart
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possibly its infinite\nbut its an argument you will find quite interesting to discuss with REAL people. im no astronomer but a thirteen year old student.i can tell you that there is the M-theory which states of parallel universes.the string theory says that there is a 12th dimension which is outside the boundary of this universe. Now we ask what is beyond that? its hard to answer. But we should never let our Heads be larger than our Hats!
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I believe that the universe is expanding within higher dimensional space. As humans we can only understand this universe in three dimensions because that is all our primitive tools of perception will allow. We are "trapped" in three dimensions. However, the existence of higher dimensions has been proven mathematically time and time again. I'm no expert on the subject but I have done a little reading. I would reccomend reading something by Stephen Hawking such as "Stephen Hawking's Universe" or "A Brief History of Time." Also, "Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku gets a little more in depth with higher dimensional theories. The only way we can understand an expanding universe is through expanding our minds along with it.
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Within this universe, no.  There is nothing outside our universe.  To get somewhere else you have to leave our dimension, that’s where the other possible universes lie.  Is God bigger than our universe?  He created it, and has complete power over it.  However, He is in no created dimension, which is how He can affect any dimension.  He is bigger than any universe, if they exist, He created them.  So is there any created place bigger than the universe?  I don’t know, maybe.