scholarly article
scholarly article by Michel Christol published in July 2002
“A remarkable property of superstring theory is that its self-consistency seems to fix the number of spatial dimensions, and that number is not three. Instead, the theory appears to work only in nine spatial dimensions, giving a ten-dimensional space-time.”
“Descartes... fell back on his original confusion of matter with space—space being, according to him, the only form of substance, and all existing things but affections of space. This error... forms one of the ultimate foundations of the system of Spinoza.”
“The idea of having an ambient space-time of some specific dimension seems to play less of a role in string theory than in conventional physics, and certainly less than the kind of role that I would myself feel comfortable with. It is particularly difficult to assess the functional freedom that is involved in a physical theory unless one has a clear idea of its actual space-time dimensionality.”
“And now, in our time, there has been unloosed a cataclysm which has swept away space, time, and matter hitherto regarded as the firmest pillars of natural science, but only to make place for a view of things of wider scope, and entailing a deeper vision.”
“Space-time is curved in the neighborhood of material masses, but it is not clear whether the presence of matter causes the curvature of space-time or whether this curvature is itself responsible for the existence of matter.”
“"Imagination is creativity playing outside the realms of intelligence or knowledge. Imagination entangles within the quantum brain of the world and self." *”
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