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i got to a point with physics where i just didn't believe what they were telling me. it took me some time to at least accept it as reasonable quantification for experimental use, but at the time i just flatly didn't believe the ideas. so, i faded back into math - and eventually hit the same crises.
if we need extra dimensions to model space properly, then we're stuck at an impossible impasse. we can only understand these extra dimensions as variables on a piece of paper. if the model is correct, we can never actually experience it. so, we're left with a proof that we can never understand space?
yet, we may be able to at least contemplate glimpses. consider a dog's sensory perception of the world around us. dog's rely dramatically on scent and sound, which are more wave-based methods of energy transfer. light is a particle and a wave. i get it. but it oscillates too fast for us to experience it as anything but a particle. that's why we have such a bias to straight-lines and euclidean geometry - not because it reflects the surface, but because it's a function of our biology. we capture light. light moves in straight lines. so, we construct the world rectilineally. it doesn't matter that we live in a sphere, if the sphere is reflected in a rectangle. if we were dogs and relied more on smell and sound, we'd get a richer sensory perception. the slower moving wave reveals a deeper sense of reality. so, we'd have a more developed concept of the density of space. we'd have evolved the ability to locate a smell in space, and navigate the contours around it's emission. is that not a complexity in the understanding of space?
apparently, humans retain the genes to be able to understand depth perception within magnetic fields. the radiation of odor particles may turn out to be less random than appears, instead traversing some path through complicated space. but, an educated human mind could get a better understanding of complex space by being able to directly interact with environmental magnetic fields. i think that some empirical concept of higher dimensional space would be plausible given this hypothetical genetic improvement, by carrying out experiments that have side effects that we can actually sense. yet, this would be a privileged experience - it may even break the species barrier.
still, it's a different way to think about how your dog experiences the world. it's not all straight lines and right angles. it's swirls and bunches and nooks and crannies in what must truly be some kind of ether.
"they operate on a different frequency."