Fireduck

2002.10.10.00.59.33

I have been thinking alot about physics today. I know very little. Socrates beleived that the reality we preceive is but a shadow of what is really there. This is how I view physics. We can find equations that model motion of things, and they turn out to be very acurate under most conditions. However, the systems we have to use are complicated, quarks, nutrenios, things we have never seen (like gravitons). They all go into modern physics. We have to use them all to explain what we see. In the science world, I define true as something that can be used to accurately predict something. So something is true, if it contains enough truth to be useful to somebody for something. So maybe our physics is true in that sense. However, I suspect that in order to receive a fuller understanding of the underlying principals of physics, we need examine everything in N dimensions. N being defined by how much processing abilities you might have at your disposal. At N=3 we can explain many things and model many things through some rather complicated assumptions and interactions. Maybe at N=7 things make more sense. Maybe at N=100 we can model almost everything with very high accuracy. Maybe as N aproches infitity we might actually know what is going on. However, if you are a person experiencing apparent N=3 space, thinking beyond N=3 is very hard. The geometry gets weird, your brain can't visualize it well. It is just wacky.

Bah, I don't know what I am talking about. Most likely, this has already been done by someone smarter than I.

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