I don’t think of myself as an especially special thinker, Gentler Reader. I think you and I are alike, insomuch as I don’t assume you to be any more, or less, intelligent than I am. I find the attached video understandable, so I assume you could understand it as well. This seems logical to me.
The video is actually a short explanation of how we might understand a 4th dimension, by explaining how a being who lives in a 2-dimentional world – a “Flatlander” – might come to understand 3-dimensional beings like us. But we don’t really care about that. The physics aren’t what I found fascinating about the video. It’s the abilities.
The video imagines a 3-dimensional apple, passing through Flatland, and how it might be perceived by the Flatlanders. It struck me that this simple explanation….also describes some of Jesus’s miracles. What if heaven was indeed a place…just one in some adjacent 4th dimension? A dimension from which our 3-dimensional world might be viewed. A dimension where, let’s say, time can be entered and experienced in a different way than it can be here, where we are simply carried along by time’s flow. Perhaps there, one can step into and back out of time, and can therefore appear at the very moment in time one wishes. The very moment of someone’s need…
All of which is a pretty goofy idea, let’s face it.
Still…..
The narrator of this piece, scientist and science popularizer Dr. Carl Sagan, was by most accounts not a believer when he died. So he does not use any religious language in his depictions of the possible events he describes. But if you consider the video from a religious perspective…what he’s describing begins to sound like some of the stories from the Bible.
Listen to the descriptions of what the apple can do, how it might be perceived. And consider The King Of Kings, the Prince Of Peace, Lord Jesus.
“the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” -J. B. S. Haldane
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