I’m not the only person who is in to this idea of e-dimensional reality. Here’s another:
Our e-dimensional universe – Subhash Kak
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Transcendental Bases
On this site I discuss a theory that the information of reality is expressed in base e.
One feature of this theory is that the information of reality is encoded in a transcendental base. This is good; I think it can be shown through “Reductio Ad Absurdum” that the true information of reality must exist in a transcendental base.
If reality is composed of a non-transcendental base, it would be “algebraic” and therefore any discrete information it contains it could be manipulated by calculation. If it were calculable, there would exist an axiomatic system that would be capable of perfectly characterizing it. But Godel’s Incompleteness theorems have proved that no such axiomatic system exists, because if it did, it would include undecidable statements, and by including undecidable statements, it fails to perfectly characterize reality.
So putting aside the information efficiency argument, it seems to me that we should be able to conclude that the true information of reality must exist in a transcendental base.
If the information of reality must exist within a transcendental base, and we only have to choose a transcendental number to occupy that space, e makes the strongest case I know, due to its role in information efficiency.
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Limited Knowledge
Here’s a collection of quotes that have stuck in my mind on the subject of living with limited knowledge.
Tiger got to hunt
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, “Why why why?”
Tiger got to sleep
Bird got to land
Man got to tell himself he understand.
–Kurt Vonnegut, “Cats Cradle”They say you fly or you die.
–Protagonist “Oscar” in the movie “Enter the Void”Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me
“How good, how good does it feel to be free?”
And I answer them most mysteriously
“Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?”
–Bob Dylan, “Ballad in Plain D”O remember that we are all imperfect. We see but in part; we know but in part.
–James Wilson, “Peace: A Sermon” 1788
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The Holographic Principal
The Holographic Principal is a theory that our three dimensional conception of space may be encoded on a two dimensional boundary; the three dimensional reality could be explained as a ‘hologram’ encoded on a flat surface, such as the event horizon of a black hole.
If everything is e-dimensional, both the three dimensional and two dimensional representations are such ‘holograms’. The math and science done in furtherance of study of the Holographic Principal serve to demonstrate the equivalence of representations of multiple dimensional construct to another, and this makes the idea of e dimensional reality more attractive to me; this linking of integer base conceptions makes it easier to imagine that neither three dimensional nor two dimensional perceptions are necessarily “the only truth” and this makes non-integer base projections more attractive.
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Religion and Radix Economy
Religion and spiritual practice often comment on the meanings of one, two and three and generally these are quite agreeable with an information-oriented interpretation of these concepts.
John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
–The Bible
If you are going to bear record (store information) in heaven, you will use the most efficient radix, which is three.
The trinity is the most efficient conception of discrete individuality.
To understand three when one is raised, to judge precisely at a glance
this is the everyday food and drink of a patchrobed monk.–The Blue Cliff Record
I interpret this as meaning that when folks raise the concept of one, it is underpinned by three, because by raising one, they have entered in to the business of discrete information representation, which finds its true expression in three. This fits the general zen idea that to refer directly to a thing distorts the essence of the thing.
As usual, within one sentence of Yun Men three sentences
are bound to be present. These are called the sentence that
encloses heaven and earth, the sentence that follows the
waves, and the sentence that cuts off the myriad streams.-The Blue Cliff Record
Another one and three, but I feel like these 3 nicely capture some of the essence of one two and three:
- one – The sentence that encloses heaven and earth. To speak of reality as “one” we encircle all that exists, both physical and figurative.
- two – The sentence that follows the waves. One becomes two through natural wave motion; one’s existence produces a wave, one wave produces another.
- three – The sentence that cuts off the myriad streams. Three settles matters by collapsing the infinite e-dimensional details in to the simplicity of the most efficient integer base.
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Black Holes May be Creating Dark Energy
This video presents papers that suggest that dark energy, which is what we call the energy responsible for the expansion of space, may be created from black holes, which collapse space.
Black holes neatly fit the idea that 3 dimensional spacetime should collapse inwards towards e dimensions. Black holes are often said to have a 2 dimensional event horizon. If 3 dimensional reality collapses to a 2 dimensional manifestation, it makes sense that the 2 dimensional manifestation would then collapse upwards to 3 dimensional manifestations; is dark energy the manifestation of the upwards collapse of 2 dimensional space?