hahaha...Okay Apollo... good choice. I thought about naming myself Zeus so I'd refer to you as "Hijo Mio" and you'd just call me 'Pappi'...but thought better of it. As any good Geminid, I have split personality, so my evil side wants me to call myself Hades, but then again, I always considered myself more the Devil's Advocate, rather than the Devil himself. And then what guy wouldn't want to be dubbed 'eros' and be a real mack-daddy.
See what conundrum your test score has turned this into? Polytheism makes this all so tough. I therefore dub myself Prometheus--the rebel god. Yeh...fitting.
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I've always been fascinated with cosmology. I'm glad to find someone who has actually read Flatland.
I personally tire of trying to rebut the notion that 'science = the study of everything that is strictly observable and testable against naturalistic mechanisms'. Understanding Flatland speaks to this.
Mathematics can and does operate in n-dimensions. But humans exist only in 3+1 dimensions. The idea forwarded by Flatland is that if an N+1 (not to be confused with 3+1 space/temporal) dimensional being were to appear to an N-dimensional being, the N+1 being would exhibit characteristics akin to the 'supernatural', yet no physical laws were broken, only the N being's limited perception.
Who is to say that 4 dimensional, 5 dimensional, etc ad infinitum beings do not exist? We can't observe those dimensions, we can only predict them (mathematically). Imagine a being who exists in a second temporal dimension, one where the arrow of time moves backward relative to ours? I dunno, I'm not a theoretical physicist, so that may be bass-ackward and even mathematically impossible...but if we cannot observe that dimension, we cannot prove its non-existence. Well, then a being with those dimensional characteristics could likely place himself anywhere along our timeline...
How about 4 spatial dimensions? the being would be invisible to us in the 4th dimension, but could likely appear it so chose in the 3 spatials we exist in. Sounds like a poltergeist.
But if this was the case, then it would not be supernatural at all, and we would have to seriously reconsider our definition of science. After all, no physical laws are being broken, but the scope of those laws are beyond our measure and observability.
This would surely complicate the religious, as it would put an explanation on the miraculous. It would also complicate the secular, as it would challenge mainstream notions that science is limited to that which we (as humans) can observe directly.
Did the big bang come out of nothing? Maybe. Probably. Possibly. Maybe not. We can't know. It's just as possible that some 25 dimensional universe evolved a 10 dimensional being that looked a lot like a 6 year old brat with a tinker toy set who proceded to build for himself a 3+1 dimensional universe of his own, much like 6 y/os today play with sea monkeys....just add water.
