[MD] Gravity

[skutvik at online.no]

Hi  Micah

On 7 April.

Bo had said -
> >Regarding gravity, Einstein's General Relativity has another
> >explanation, namely that of a "dents" in the space-time fabric caused
> >by the heavenly bodies, no "gravity force" propagating through empty
> >space. So the last word is not said on that issue.

Micah commented:
> I'm confused - dents occur on two dimensional flat surfaces. Is
> space-time a two dimensional flat surface?

You know it's visualized as a rubber sheet with a "planet" in the 
form of a heavy ball creating a dent and some other ball will act 
as if in a gravity field without any mysterious remote force acting 
upon it. But 3D is is our spatial limit, even time as an added 
dimension is difficult to understand, in mathematics however 
dimensions are added in droves as more subtle models of - 
particularly - the early universe are produced, I think it's around 
twenty in the String Theory, and no analogy can convey their 
meaning.

In my SOM days I thought that mathematical models described 
reality, but after learning about the MOQ I understood that they 
are the intellectual level having reached the complexity 
(instability) necessary for spawning the next metaphysical "level". 
But even if the MOQ is born it's just a tiny "baby" crying for 
attention, its intellectual parent goes on as if nothing has 
happened. 

My own puzzlement is about what impact a grown-up MOQ will 
have on "intellect", if it will stand the change from SOM to the 
more humble role of a static level. SOM by way of science has 
given us the modern world and I hope it will go on in a pragmatic 
sense (finding a remedy for the common cold I suffer from right 
now) but it will have to come out from its mathematical labyrinths, 
no one will be fooled by this any more.

Bo