Damn. It's Shakespeare gone horribly awry, embracing his evil side. Imagine Stephen King writing an Elizabethan play based on the Gladiator movie script and this might be the result. Somehow, I enjoyed it, even though most of the characters were sadistic assholes. The part where Tamora eats the pie with the blood of her sons in it is applaudable, and I'm not ashamed to say I laughed. Titus was a pretty interesting antihero- highly emotional and violently insane. And, I guess my pity and desire for Lavinia's justice kept me drawn to the plot. Speaking of Lavinia, the only lark in a city of crows, all I can say about her fate is.... Why Shakespeare, why!?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Topological Dimensions
On reading David Foster Wallace's Everything And More I stumbled across the term tesseract, which is a 4-dimensional cube. With my limited knowledge in mathematical topology I ventured into the realm of tensors, which is a broad subject that extends things like vectors and matrices to higher dimensions using arrays, maps, and fields. The subject is truly astonishing. As 3-dimensional beings we should consider the possibility that there are higher dimensions that we can't perceive. Just think of something existing on a 2-dimensional plane- it isn't aware of a higher dimensions, but theologically it should know that the higher dimension branches off orthogonally to it, since a 2-dimensional plane branches orthogonally from a line. Thus, the 4th dimension is an orthogonal branching of the 3rd dimension. It's hard to visualize, but virtual reality has made it easier. If you google tesseract you can watch the 4-dimensional rotation of a tesseract. Experts in string theory say that there are even higher dimensions, and there's no reason why we shouldn't doubt it.
The way I see it is, the higher the dimension the more space gets integrated. In order for infinite geometry to really make sense it has to revolve around on itself in a circular pattern. When you think about what Einstein proved in general relativity, that gravity curves all the space around it, you have to think to yourself that the more dimensions are added, the more space collapses and reverts itself back to simplistic geometry. I don't know how many dimensions there are, but whatever the last one is is probably approaching a circle that's been "fractalized" by all the dimensions below it. And since a circle is really just a curved line, it's closer to the first dimension than say, the fourth dimension.
This applies to metaphysics in that thoughts can be accessed anywhere in the universe. Our brains transmit thought-waves that travel through the universe at the speed of light into infinite. (Incidentally, ever since I've discovered that our brains are transmitters/receivers of EM information I've reasoned that perhaps my random fantastical visions do in fact exist in outer space and not solely in the astral realm.) The waves travel through all dimensions uniformly, but the reason they can be accessed on the astral plane is that the higher dimensions curve space and create "quantum memory files". That means that the waves collapse and are preserved on the higher dimensional planes. I might even be nuts enough to say that each successive dimension after the third is correlated to the different metaphysical planes (astral plane/dreaming = 4-dimensional experience, mental plane = 5-dimensional experience, buddhic = 6th dimension, etc). That's saying that each dimension has it's own quantum frequency, but I'm not entirely sure, it's just my latest crackpot theory. Maybe String Theory can finally decode the relationship between thought and quantum physics. Physicists need to stop underestimating the power of consciousness in order to understand all this.
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