True, we may have trouble grasping the truths behind scientific processes when all we are capable of understanding are the "shadows" of what we can comfortably perceive. But even when addressing a difficult concept, like Garrett Lisi's Theory of Everything illustrated below in an eight-dimensional model, there is the possibility of comprehension.
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Understanding the Theory of Everything
I recently saw a video describing the way we try to understand multiple dimensions as being similar to Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and I thought it was a really neat comparison between ancient philosophy and quantum physics.
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