Parallel universe (M-theory)

• JitKiat

  27 Feb 08, 18:24

  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

  三�大�世界 :-)

  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.

   

• JitKiat

  27 Feb 08, 18:27

  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 ...

   

• gigabyte14

  27 Feb 08, 19:11

  hmm, why do humans have inferiority complex?

• JitKiat

  27 Feb 08, 22:59

  Master Chin Kung:

   

  佛在《�严�》上告诉我们宇宙现象，包括今天科学家所讲的��维次的空间。往年黄念祖告诉我，现代西方科学家已��实有�一度维次空间的存在，这是被�实的。但是在�论上说，��维次空间是无�度的，在�论上讲是无�度的。这个�在佛法里�它��空间，佛法里��法界，界是界�，他们讲��维次，我们讲��界�。佛法通常讲的，实在讲跟他们科学家讲的是差�多，�一�，�法界加上一个一真法界，这�一个。这�一�是大分，佛�上说的。天�大师跟我们讲得更清楚�更具体，�法界�一个法界里��具足�法界，就一百法界。这一百界里�，�一界里头还有一百界，��无尽，这个��是对的，�真正把事实真相说出�了。���说，法界��维次的空间，��我们的念头在�。我们生活是�是在�一个维次空间？�是的。有修行的人他心地清净，他入定，定中的法界跟你清醒�是一个法界，是��维次空间。所以在定中能�到过去�能�到未��能�到远方，这是修定的人都有这个�验，都出现过这个境界。

  　　这些界é™�怎么æ�¥çš„？或者我们说科学家讲的ä¸�å�Œç»´æ¬¡ç©ºé—´æ˜¯æ€Žä¹ˆé€ æˆ�的？佛在这里告诉我们，‘é�¡ä¸�由心造善ä¸�å–„’业所致。我们这æ‰�æ��然大悟，整个宇宙人生的现象，我们在此地说的“人生”，这是一个代å��è¯�，包括ä¸�å�ŒçŽ°è±¡é‡Œé�¢æ‰€æœ‰çš„生物，“人生”是这个æ„�æ€�。大家ä¸�è¦�把这一å�¥è¯�看æˆ�很狭义的，那就错了。在佛法里é�¢é€šå¸¸ä¸�å�«“人生”，å�«“众生”，这个å��è¯�很好。怎么æ�¥çš„？由心想å�˜çŽ°å‡ºæ�¥çš„。å‰�é�¢è®²çš„“心想异故，造业亦异”，“异”å°±å�˜æˆ�ä¸�å�Œçš„ç•Œé™�。我们æ¯�一个人天天在造，从æ�¥æ²¡æœ‰å�œæ­¢è¿‡ï¼Œä½›è®²çš„妄想分别执ç�€ï¼Œä½ æ‰€é€ çš„总ä¸�外乎这三大类。由于你有妄想分别执ç�€ï¼Œæ‰�å�˜æˆ�凡夫，凡夫跟佛è�©è�¨çš„差别就在此地。

• An Eternal Now

  28 Feb 08, 00:03

  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.

• An Eternal Now

  28 Feb 08, 00:09

  Originally posted by JitKiat:

  Master Chin Kung:

   

  佛在《�严�》上告诉我们宇宙现象，包括今天科学家所讲的��维次的空间。往年黄念祖告诉我，现代西方科学家已��实有�一度维次空间的存在，这是被�实的。但是在�论上说，��维次空间是无�度的，在�论上讲是无�度的。这个�在佛法里�它��空间，佛法里��法界，界是界�，他们讲��维次，我们讲��界�。佛法通常讲的，实在讲跟他们科学家讲的是差�多，�一�，�法界加上一个一真法界，这�一个。这�一�是大分，佛�上说的。天�大师跟我们讲得更清楚�更具体，�法界�一个法界里��具足�法界，就一百法界。这一百界里�，�一界里头还有一百界，��无尽，这个��是对的，�真正把事实真相说出�了。���说，法界��维次的空间，��我们的念头在�。我们生活是�是在�一个维次空间？�是的。有修行的人他心地清净，他入定，定中的法界跟你清醒�是一个法界，是��维次空间。所以在定中能�到过去�能�到未��能�到远方，这是修定的人都有这个�验，都出现过这个境界。

  这些界é™�怎么æ�¥çš„？或者我们说科学家讲的ä¸�å�Œç»´æ¬¡ç©ºé—´æ˜¯æ€Žä¹ˆé€ æˆ�的？佛在这里告诉我们，‘é�¡ä¸�由心造善ä¸�å–„’业所致。我们这æ‰�æ��然大悟，整个宇宙人生的现象，我们在此地说的“人生”，这是一个代å��è¯�，包括ä¸�å�ŒçŽ°è±¡é‡Œé�¢æ‰€æœ‰çš„生物，“人生”是这个æ„�æ€�。大家ä¸�è¦�把这一å�¥è¯�看æˆ�很狭义的，那就错了。在佛法里é�¢é€šå¸¸ä¸�å�«“人生”，å�«“众生”，这个å��è¯�很好。怎么æ�¥çš„？由心想å�˜çŽ°å‡ºæ�¥çš„。å‰�é�¢è®²çš„“心想异故，造业亦异”，“异”å°±å�˜æˆ�ä¸�å�Œçš„ç•Œé™�。我们æ¯�一个人天天在造，从æ�¥æ²¡æœ‰å�œæ­¢è¿‡ï¼Œä½›è®²çš„妄想分别执ç�€ï¼Œä½ æ‰€é€ çš„总ä¸�外乎这三大类。由于你有妄想分别执ç�€ï¼Œæ‰�å�˜æˆ�凡夫，凡夫跟佛è�©è�¨çš„差别就在此地。

  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.

• dragon_stone

  28 Feb 08, 09:12

  I could be wrong, I think parallel dimension/universe was mentioned by Einstein before. Maybe he studied Buddhism?