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It appears that what "aliens" actually are, are interdimensional beings.
originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
It appears that what "aliens" actually are, are interdimensional beings.
I'm seeing a lot of play on the Interdimensional Beings idea .
I'm not saying it's a new thing or that I disagree with it but I do propose a simple question to our resident ATS physicist .
In the end at least in part it boils down to a question Expenditure of Energy.
Which Requires more Energy ? To Cross dimension's ? Or to Fold Space time covering vast distances . Or are both technically the same thing ?
originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
It appears that what "aliens" actually are, are interdimensional beings.
I'm seeing a lot of play on the Interdimensional Beings idea .
I'm not saying it's a new thing or that I disagree with it but I do propose a simple question to our resident ATS physicist .
In the end at least in part it boils down to a question Expenditure of Energy.
Which Requires more Energy ? To Cross dimension's ? Or to Fold Space time covering vast distances . Or are both technically the same thing ?
originally posted by: visitedbythem
If they could go forward or reverse in time, they would see to it that Christ wouldn't die on the cross.
If they could go forward or reverse in time, they would see to it that Christ wouldn't die on the cross.
originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
originally posted by: visitedbythem
If they could go forward or reverse in time, they would see to it that Christ wouldn't die on the cross.
You seem to have forgotten the Ressurection.
They are able to take on whatever form they want. They don't follow any laws of physics. "Aliens" have worn many different disguises and masqueraded as numerous different things over the cenuries. These aliens appear as forms that people believe in or expect. They play off people's pre-conditioned beliefs and expeditions.
It's interesting you should ask about energy. Physicists measure energy a lot, and they have observed that energy is always conserved, and thus based on observation, the "conservation of energy" is a fundamental principle of physics. Or you could say of "known physics", which people always bring up when alien discussion is involved, and aliens indeed may know more physics than humans, but then you would still have to explain how even if that's true, why do we always observe energy being conserved as the concept is laid out in physics? (Energy is not the only parameter that's conserved by the way).
originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
It appears that what "aliens" actually are, are interdimensional beings.
I'm seeing a lot of play on the Interdimensional Beings idea .
I'm not saying it's a new thing or that I disagree with it but I do propose a simple question to our resident ATS physicist .
In the end at least in part it boils down to a question Expenditure of Energy.
Which Requires more Energy ? To Cross dimension's ? Or to Fold Space time covering vast distances . Or are both technically the same thing ?
originally posted by: moebius
If you postulate an extra spatial dimension, you also have to explain why our physical laws are not affected by it, are constrained to our spacetime.
Gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear forces would look quite different with an extra dimension. The equations we derived from observations and experiments tell us mathematically that there are three spatial dimensions.
You would also have to come up with some additional forces, we've yet to observe, that would allow interaction with that higher dimensional space.
To me the extra/inter/etc dimensional angle in UFOlogy is a simplistic attempt to create a gap to hide the alien, very much like the religions are hiding their gods in a special unreachable space, a heaven.
But I am a boring person who believes that there is a natural explanation for real UFOs. It is just incredibly hard to look for, as it is being drowned in the noise created by UFOtainment.
But what about the 10 or 11 dimensions in string theory or M theory?
Pseudoscientists lean heavily on the assumption that their readers will know absolutely nothing about science or math. This is a pretty safe assumption, alas. And it requires no effort on the part of the pseudoscientist, because he also invariably knows no science or math either.
It is worth summarizing the ways in which the various concepts of "higher dimensions'' gradually diffused out from legitimate math and science, through hundreds of increasingly distorted, confused and muddled journalistic presentations and sensationalizations, into late 19th Century science fiction and 20th Century pseudoscience.
In the late 19th Century mathematicians became increasingly interested in the foundations of geometry. Our own universe has 3 space dimensions. But what would geometry be like if there were 4 space dimensions? Or 5? Or 10? Or an arbitrary number? Or an infinite number? Mathematicians worked a great deal on geometries with arbitrary numbers of space dimensions.
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In 1915, Einstein found a more general description of gravitational phenomena, in which the density of matter directly determines the "curvature'' of 4-dimensional space-time. That is, his theory of gravity was purely geometrical. The amount of matter determines the type of geometry that exists in the surrounding space. Other matter travels along the straightest possible trajectory in this curved space-time...
The structure of all known physical laws demands that our universe have only 3 extended space dimensions. For example, the fact— established and confirmed by experiment consistently for nearly 400 years— that all long-range interactions, such as gravity and the radiation field of the electromagnetic force, fall off like the inverse square of the distance, demands that space be precisely 3 dimensional.
So those extra dimensions in string or M theory are useless for the interdimensional UFO hypothesis, since nobody is seeing UFOs smaller than 10^-35 meters in length, that's too small to see. That's 100 million trillion times smaller than a proton which is roughly 10^-15 meters.
A typical string theory had 9 or 10 space dimensions and 1 time dimension. The extra space dimensions had to be there to incorporate phenomena other than gravity geometrically, but they could not "actually'' be there or the theory would not have worked. The solution was to curl these extra dimensions up mathematically into tight "wads'' no more than 10^-35 meters in length, a process called "compaction." The extra dimensions would thus be "compact," and indetectable.