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Exploring the Multiverse Within Us
I’ve been to many places and lived in many spaces, but there’s no better place than here, where my heart is.
Before becoming a digital nomad, I was a ronin, a vagrant “wave man” trying to find my way back home. I traveled everywhere, belonging to nowhere, until I found my space in a place of love at the end of war.
I’ve hung the same sign up on the wall in all the houses where I’ve lived abroad. A gray piece from a French store called Maisons du Monde. The gray lettering on ever-so-white walls:
“home is where the heart is.”
However, looking from within at the house where I’m writing from memory. The only place I call my own! Here, the white walls have no gray areas. Wherever I look, there’s no message on the wall because my heart has never left this place after all.
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.” — Carl Sagan
This is my personal take on a theory of everything and how physics binds us together in a covenant beyond the tenth dimension.
In 1726, Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels and introduced us to the islands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag, among other fantastic realms. Lilliput envisioned as a micro-universe, becomes the perfect metaphor for an unorthodox view of the multiple dimensions described by strings theory.
“Life is a ball of thread that someone has tangled.” — Fernando Pessoa
In 1919, the German physicist Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza first suggested that the Universe might have more than the four canonical dimensions.
Even Einstein’s Theory of Relativity doesn’t make any predictions regarding a fifth dimension. Kaluza was among the first to look beyond the conventions of spacetime, adding a fifth dimension to the principles of the theory of relativity.
Afterward, in 1984, John H. Schwarz and Michael B. Green revolutionized our conception of space dimensions when they established the cosmic string theory or superstrings, bringing string theory together with supersymmetry.
