An odd new theory in astrophysics
Are mini-black holes in our solar system gateways to a fifth dimension?
Is this the dawning of the Age of Aquarius? Shall we let the sunshine in? Inquiring branes want to know!
How is it possible that such a fifth dimension could lie outside a universe with which has no boundaries? How can a universe without boundaries be finite?
Stephen Hawking's explanation: A balloon is finite. Blow it up, and it actually expands in finite size.
Now. Go ahead. Pick a point on a balloon. Any point. Follow a straight line on the surface of the balloon from that point, in any direction.
Let me know when you reach the boundary of the balloon.
What? You can't find one? Well, does anything lie beyond the surface of the balloon?
That's why they call it another dimension.
Is this the dawning of the Age of Aquarius? Shall we let the sunshine in? Inquiring branes want to know!
How is it possible that such a fifth dimension could lie outside a universe with which has no boundaries? How can a universe without boundaries be finite?
Stephen Hawking's explanation: A balloon is finite. Blow it up, and it actually expands in finite size.
Now. Go ahead. Pick a point on a balloon. Any point. Follow a straight line on the surface of the balloon from that point, in any direction.
Let me know when you reach the boundary of the balloon.
What? You can't find one? Well, does anything lie beyond the surface of the balloon?
That's why they call it another dimension.
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