M-theory was mentioned by Master Chin kung briefly about the 11-dimension ![]()
You tube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mfh-3XHrYU&feature=related
Part of http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3014_elegant.html
BURT OVRUT: We know that there would have to be 11 dimensions for this theory to make sense. So there must be 11 dimensions. We only see three plus one of them. How is that possible?
BRIAN GREENE: For most of us, it's virtually impossible to picture the extra, higher dimensions: I can't. And it's not surprising. Our brains evolved sensing just the three spatial dimensions of everyday experience. So how can we get a feel for them?
One way is to go to the movies.
....
MOVIE SCREEN BRIAN GREENE (in theater): So dimensions all have to do with the independent directions in which you can move. They're sometimes called "degrees of freedom."
THEATER BRIAN GREENE: The more dimensions or degrees of freedom you have, the more you can do.
...
BRIAN GREENE: The extra dimension Witten added allows a string to stretch into something like a membrane, or a "brane" for short. A brane could be three-dimensional or even more. And with enough energy, a brane could grow to an enormous size, perhaps even as large as a universe.
..
BRIAN GREENE: The existence of giant membranes and extra dimensions would open up a startling new possibility, that our whole universe is living on a membrane, inside a much larger, higher dimensional space.
It's almost as if we were living inside...a loaf of bread? Our universe might be like a slice of bread, just one slice, in a much larger loaf that physicists sometimes call the "bulk."
And if these ideas are right, the bulk may have other slices, other universes, that are right next to ours, in effect, "parallel" universes.
Not only would our universe be nothing special, but we could have a lot of neighbors. Some of them could resemble our universe, they might have matter and planets and, who knows, maybe even beings of a sort.
Others certainly would be a lot stranger. They might be ruled by completely different laws of physics. Now, all of these other universes would exist within the extra dimensions of M-theory, dimensions that are all around us. Some even say they might be right next to us, less than a millimeter away.
But if that's true, why can't I see them or touch them?
BURT OVRUT: If you have a brane living in a higher dimensional space, and your particles, your atoms, cannot get off the brane, it's like trying to reach out, but you can't touch anything. It might as well be on the other end of the universe.
JOSEPH LYKKEN: It's a very powerful idea because if it's right it means that our whole picture of the universe is clouded by the fact that we're trapped on just a tiny slice of the higher dimensional universe.
http://www.biblicalcreation.org.uk/scientific_issues/bcs118.html
M-theory is denied by above Christian group straight away ... but I am sure there will be other Christians that can try to fit M-theory into Christian teaching ...
hmm, why do humans have inferiority complex?
Master Chin Kung:
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Originally posted by gigabyte14:hmm, why do humans have inferiority complex?
By comparison, attachment, identification, with an assumed, illusory sense of 'self'.. and this identification is known as the 'ego' (it is not an entity, it is not real, it is not a real self but a process of identification with an assumed 'I' and 'mine').
Anyway why suddenly ask this here?
From A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle:
CHAPTER FOUR
ROLEPLAYING:
THE MANY FACES OF THE EGO
An ego that wants something from another – and what ego doesn't – will
usually play some kind of role to get its “needs” met, be they material gain, a
sense of power, superiority, or specialness, or some kind of gratification, be
it physical or psychological. Usually people are completely unaware of the
roles they play. They are those roles. Some roles are subtle; others are
blatantly obvious, except to the person playing it. Some roles are designed
simply to get attention from others. The ego thrives on others' attention,
which is after all a form of psychic energy. The ego doesn't know that the
source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside. It is not the formless
attention which is Presence that the ego seeks, but attention in some form,
such as recognition, praise, admiration, or just to be noticed in some way, to
have its existence acknowledged.
A shy person who is afraid of the attention of others is not free of ego,
but has an ambivalent ego that both wants and fears attention from others.
The fear is that the attention may take the form of disapproval or criticism,
that is to say, something that diminishes the sense of self rather than
enhances it. So the shy person's fear of attention is greater than his or her
need of attention. Shyness often goes with a selfconcept
that is
predominantly negative, the belief of being inadequate. Any conceptual
sense of self – seeing myself as this or that is
ego, whether predominantly
positive (I am the greatest) or negative (I am no good). Behind every positive
selfconcept
is the hidden fear of not being good enough. Behind every
negative selfconcept
its the hidden desire of being the greatest or better than
others. Behind the confident ego's feeling of and continuing need for
superiority is the unconscious fear of inferiority. Conversely, the shy,
inadequate ego that feels inferior has a strong hidden desire for superiority.
Many people fluctuate between feelings of inferiority and superiority,
depending on situations or the people they come into contact with. All you
need to know and observe in yourself is this: whenever you feel superior or
inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.
Originally posted by JitKiat:Master Chin Kung:
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Reminds me our forum founder (the guy who created this forum and passed to me) used to share this website: http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash.php
The tenth dimension sounds like the One True Dharmadhatu, and also explains how Buddha's omniscience is possible from that level.
I could be wrong, I think parallel dimension/universe was mentioned by Einstein before. Maybe he studied Buddhism?