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Speaker 1: Imagine for just a second a ghost. Okay, you're sitting

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in your living room, maybe it's late, you're reading a

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book or scrolling through your phone, and the house is

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just quiet. Yeah, and suddenly a spectral figure walks straight

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through the solid brick wall, right through it. It enters

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the room, looks at you with a kind of shimmering

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incomplete face, and then just drifts down through the floorboards,

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vanishing into the.

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Speaker 2: Basement right and your brain, your immediate reaction is that

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the rules have been broken.

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Speaker 1: My brain screams, supernatural. It's a haunting. It's magic. It's

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something that fundamentally, you know, breaks the laws of physics, because.

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Speaker 2: In our experience the rules are very very strict. Solid

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things do not pass through other solid things.

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Speaker 1: It's rule number one.

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Speaker 2: It's the fundamental rule of the playground we live in.

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We rely on walls to keep the wind out and

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the roof to keep the rain off. Solid is solid exactly.

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Speaker 1: But here is the terrifying thought experiment we need to

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start with today. What if I to you that, to

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a being living in a higher dimension, walking through that

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wall is as mundane, as boring, and as simple as

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you stepping over a line drawn in chalk on the sidewalk.

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Speaker 2: It wouldn't be magic to them. It wouldn't even be technology.

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It could just be geometry, just the shape of the world.

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Speaker 1: And that is where we are going today. We are

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peeling back the layer of reality we call home to

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realize that physics as we know it might just be

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a lie of perspective.

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Speaker 2: That's a great way to put it.

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Speaker 1: It's local, it's conditional, and quite frankly, it's a trap.

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Speaker 2: A trap is the perfect word for it. We tend

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to think of our three dimensions length with height as

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the whole stage, but the math suggests we're actually just

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trapped in a very thin, very cramped slice of a

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much larger, much stranger auditorium.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Thrilling Threads. I'm your host, and today we

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are unraveling the fabric of reality itself. Usually, when we

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talk about space in the universe, it's full of wonder right.

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Speaker 2: Right, Nebula's galaxies, explorations and potential.

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Speaker 1: Today we are talking about the horror of geometry. We're

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looking at why higher dimensions aren't just more room for activities,

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but actually contain terrifying consequences that dismantle everything We think

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is private and safe.

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Speaker 2: It's a heavy topic, and we're drawing heavily today from

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a brilliant analysis by Aperture. Their mission in this specific

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breakdown was really to make us question the stability of

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our reality.

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Speaker 1: They weren't just trying to teach math.

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Speaker 2: No, not at all. They wanted to explore the uncomfortable

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implications of what happens when you leave the third dimension.

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Speaker 1: And uncomfortable as an understatement. I was reading through the

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source material and there were moments where I genuinely felt

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a little exposed. It's paused, like instinctively covering my chest

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because I felt watched. It sounds crazy, but the logic,

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once you follow it is inescapable.

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Speaker 2: That's the natural reaction. We are evolved to feel safe

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in three dimensions. Our brains are hardwired to trust walls.

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When you start looking at the of what lies beyond,

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you realize that safety is an illusion. We are essentially

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goldfish in a bowl, convinced that the glass is the

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edge of the universe while someone watches us from the

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living room.

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Speaker 1: So let's unpack this, because to understand the scary stuff,

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the forty ghosts and the ten dimensional collapse, we have

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to start small. We have to we have to understand

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why we are trapped. We need to look at the

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lower dimensions.

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Speaker 2: Right, We need to look down before we can look up.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the first dimension, the line. This is

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as basic as it gets.

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Speaker 2: The line a one dimensional world. Imagine a universe that

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is just an infinitely thin wire. Okay, if you lived there,

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you wouldn't have a body, as we understand it. You

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would be a point or maybe a line segment. You

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have length, but that is it, no width, no depth.

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Speaker 1: So I can move forward and I can move backward

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along the wire. That's my whole universe of option.

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Speaker 2: That is the entirety of your existence. You can never

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turn around because to turn around you'd need a second

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dimension to swing your body through.

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Speaker 2: You are essentially a bead on a string.

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Speaker 1: That sounds incredibly claustrophobic. If I meet someone on the line,

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I can't I can't walk around them.

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Speaker 2: Never. If you meet another one D being, you are

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stuck facing them forever or until one of you decides

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Speaker 1: So social interactions are very intense, very intense.

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Speaker 2: But think about how easy it is to be trapped there.

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don't need a complex cell with bars and a toilet.

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I don't need a guard.

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Speaker 1: What do you need?

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Speaker 2: Two points? I put one dot on the line in

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front of you and one dot behind.

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Speaker 1: You, and that's it. I'm in jail.

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Speaker 2: That's it. You are trapped for eternity. You cannot go

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around the dot because around implies with which doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Exist, and I can't go over it.

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Speaker 2: You cannot go over the dot because up doesn't exist.

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effectively over.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's one D prison, simple brutal. You are

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defeated by two specks of dust. Now let's graduate to

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the second dimension, the plane, the classic flatland scenario. We

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have length and width. Now, squares, circles.

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Speaker 2: Triangles exactly. Now, concepts like beside and around start to exist.

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So let's go back to our prisoner. Okay, if I

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tried to trap a two D creature, let's call him

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square with those same two dots I used on the

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Speaker 1: You just laugh at you, He would laugh.

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Speaker 2: He just sidesteps them, right. He moves into the second dimension,

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the y axis bypasses the dots and he's free. So

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the prison of the lower dimension is completely trivial to

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the higher dimension. It's not a wall. It's a joke.

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Speaker 1: But here is where the aperture analysis started to freak

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me out, because usually when we learn this in school,

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we stop there. We say, oh cool, math allows you to.

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Speaker 2: Step around dots, right, A neat little brain teaser.

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Speaker 1: But let's look at the perspective of a three D viewer.

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we have a sheet of paper with a two D

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square living on it.

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Speaker 2: This is where the horror of perspective kicks in.

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Speaker 1: If I'm looking at a two D square on a

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piece of paper, I see the whole. I see its edges,

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but I also see its center.

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Speaker 2: Correct, and that is a profound observation.

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Speaker 1: But the square doesn't see its own center. It can't,

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can it.

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Speaker 2: No, And this is hard for us to visualize. So

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stick with me. In a two D world, everything is

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defined by its outline. If you are a square meeting

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a circle, you only see the line of their edge,

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your eye to eye with their perimeter.

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Speaker 1: You never see their insides.

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their mechanisms. Those are hidden behind their skin, behind their perimeter.

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Speaker 1: So if I'm a square, I feel private my thoughts,

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my digestion, my heart, it's all safely tuck away inside

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my lines.

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Speaker 2: They feel safe behind their skin. But you, the three

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D observer hovering.

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Speaker 1: Above the paper, I see everything.

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Speaker 2: You see everything simultaneously. You see their heart beating, you

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see what they had for lunch, digesting in their stomach.

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You see the blood pumping through their veins. You see

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it all without having to cut them open.

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Speaker 1: Their insides are totally exposed to.

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Speaker 2: Me because to a three D being, inside and outside

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of a two D shape are not protected categories. They

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, we.

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Speaker 2: Can see every secret they possess without even trying. Privacy

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is purely a dimensional constraint.

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Speaker 1: That feels voyeuristic, but it gets worse. This leads to

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that divine intervention concept the source material mentioned the surgery analogy. Yes,

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this one really stuck with me because it feels like

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a horror movie trope.

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Speaker 2: It's a perfect illustration of the power dynamic imagine. A

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two D creature has a tumor inside its body, a

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little black spot, okay, to remove it, A two D

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doctor would have to cut through the skin, break the

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outline to reach the inside, just like our surgeons have

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to cut us open, right.

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Speaker 1: They have to breach the hull to get to the cargo.

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Speaker 2: But a three D being you or me could reach

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down from the third dimension the updirection that the two

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D creature can even proceed in destruct and pluck that

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tumor right out of their body and.

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Speaker 1: Then put the body back.

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Speaker 2: We wouldn't even have to move the body. We just

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lift the tumor out into the third dimensions.

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Speaker 1: So to the two D creature, to.

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Speaker 2: The two D creature, we never touched their skin, we

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never broke their outline. One second of the tumor is there,

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the next second it has simply vanished.

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Speaker 1: It would look like a miracle or.

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Speaker 2: A glitch in reality to them, it's magic. To us,

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it's just reaching into an open drawer. We bypass their

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physics entirely.

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Speaker 1: And the reverse is true for prisons. If I draw

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a square around a two D guy, he's in jail.

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The wall is absolute, he cannot get.

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Speaker 2: Out, he is completely trapped.

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Speaker 1: But I can just reach in, pick him up into

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the third dimension and drop him outside.

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Speaker 2: The square, and to his jailer's what do they see?

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Speaker 1: They see him just disappearing. The wall is still there.

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The guards didn't blink. He's just gone.

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Speaker 2: He ceased to exist inside the cell and instantly began

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existing outside of it. The wall is still perfect.

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Speaker 1: We didn't use force. We didn't smash the wall. We

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just used a dimension they couldn't see.

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Speaker 2: Force isn't needed to invade, You just need a higher dimension.

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Speaker 1: Okay, hold that thought, because that is the premise that

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is going to make the rest of this conversation absolutely terrifying.

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It is we are the gods to the two D people.

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We are the all seeing wall ignoring deities, but we

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are trapped in the third dimension.

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Speaker 2: We are the two D people of the next level up.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about our reality. The third dimension length

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with depth. This is where we live. This where volume

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and mass.

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Speaker 2: Exist, and interestingly enough, as the analysis points out, it's

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the first dimension where knots can exist.

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Speaker 1: Knots like shoelaces exactly.

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Speaker 2: Think about a knot, it's a string looping around itself.

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In two D, you can't have a knot because you

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can't pass a string over or under itself.

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Speaker 1: You just have lines crossing.

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Speaker 2: You just have lines crossing to make a knot. You

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need that third dimension to loop over.

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Speaker 1: Which explains my headphones every time I take them out

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of my pocket.

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Speaker 2: They are taking full advantage of the third dimension to

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ruin your day.

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Speaker 1: They really are.

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Speaker 2: It's a geometry problem. But even in three D we

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are incredibly limited. We feel free, but we are constantly

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bumping into walls. We are trapped by gravity, trap by solids.

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Speaker 1: The Source material brought up a really funny point about

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our futurism. Oh yeah, we always imagine the future is

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having flying cars. It's the ultimate, the Jetson's fantasy.

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Speaker 2: The ultimate trope. Where is my flying car? It's a

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Speaker 1: A reason, But the aperture analysis points out that flying

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cars aren't actually that revolutionary. They're kind of a cheat.

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Speaker 2: They aren't revolutionary physics. They're just geometry hacks. Think about traffic.

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Traffic is a two D.

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Speaker 1: Problem, right Cars on a road.

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Speaker 2: Cars are stuck on a plane the road. When we

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get stuck in traffic, we are trapped by the cars

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in front and behind us. It's a one D trap

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Speaker 1: So a flying car is just doing what the square

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did to the dots.

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Speaker 2: Precisely, a flying car just uses the third dimension height

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to bypass the two D congestion. It's the same logic

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as the subway going under the street or the plane

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going over the ocean.

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Speaker 1: It's not breaking the limits of physics, not at all.

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Speaker 2: It's just using the Z axis to avoid the X

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and y.

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Speaker 1: Axis, basically just stepping over the line.

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Speaker 2: It feels futuristic to us because we are ground based animals,

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but geometrically it's trivial. We are still trapped in space

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and time.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of time, this is where things get trippy. The

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fourth dimension the big one. Now. Usually when people talk

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about the fourth dimension.

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Speaker 2: They mean time, right, And we need to clarify this

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because time as a dimension is often misunderstood. We tend

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to think of time as a river. We flow down it.

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Speaker 1: The past is gone, washed away, the future hasn't happened yet.

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Speaker 2: You're on the raft of the now.

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Speaker 1: But physics views it differently.

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Speaker 2: Physics, specifically Einstein's relativity, views time as a coordinate. It's

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a location. The aperture analysis uses the library analogy.

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Speaker 1: Right, If I tell you meet me at the library,

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that's a spatial location three coordinates, right, But if I

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don't tell you when the instruction is useless.

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Speaker 2: Exactly to exist, you need four coordinates xyz and T longitude, latitude, altitude,

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and time meet me at the lab at noon.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Now, if time is just a coordinate, just a mark

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on a map that implies something very very unsettling about

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you and me.

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Speaker 1: The worldline, the worldline.

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Speaker 2: If you could step outside of time and look at

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our universe from a higher dimension, the gods eye view,

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you wouldn't see you as a person moving around a room.

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Speaker 1: What would you see.

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Speaker 2: You would see a long, solid, snake like tube.

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Speaker 1: A tube, I'm a snake.

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Speaker 2: Think of it as a smear of existence, a structure

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that stretches from the moment of your birth to the

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moment of your death. Your baby self is at one

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end of the tube, your elderly self is at the other,

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and your current self is just a cross section in

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the middle.

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Speaker 1: So my entire life, every breakfast I've ever eaten, every

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mistake I've made, every moment of joy, it's all just

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one static object.

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Speaker 2: It's already built, It's already there in the block universe theory. Yes,

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it is just one static shape frozen in the block

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of space time.

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Speaker 1: That makes me feel stuck. Yeah, like do I have

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a choice in what I do next? Or is the

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tube already twisting? Laugh?

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Speaker 2: That is the crisis. It challenges the concept of free will.

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If your worldline is already drawn, then your future actions

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are just as real and fixed as your past actions.

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Speaker 1: You aren't becoming anything, you just are. So I'm not

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living my life. I'm just traveling along a pre built track.

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I'm roller coaster car thinking I'm steering.

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Speaker 2: You're a sculpture in time. The sculpture doesn't change, your consciousness,

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just slides along it.

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Speaker 1: That is existential enough to ruin my afternoon. But let's

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pivot because there is another way to look at the

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fourth dimension. Right, not as time, but is space the

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spatial fourth dimension?

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Speaker 2: This is the ghost part right, a fourth spatial dimension,

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a direction that is not up, down, left, right, forward,

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or back, a direction perpendicular to our entire reality.

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Speaker 1: Anna and Katta up in and down out.

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Speaker 2: That's one way to name them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if a being from that dimension looked.

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Speaker 2: At us, Now we apply the lesson from the two

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D world. Oh no, remember how we could see the

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two D creature's internal organs? How we could see the

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blood pump.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we were voyeurs.

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Speaker 2: Well, turn the camera around. A forty being looking at

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you right now doesn't just see your skin. They see

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your entire volume, simultaneously.

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Speaker 1: My whole volume.

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Speaker 2: They see the food digesting in your stomach. They see

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the plaque in your arteries. They see the electrical signals

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firing in your brain.

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Speaker 1: They see my thoughts physically.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they see the neural activity. To them, your skin

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is not a barrier, just like the circle's perimeter wasn't

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a barrier to us. Your inside is just another surface

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to them.

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Speaker 1: So if I'm standing in a locked bank vault, titanium walls,

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time locks, the works, I feel completely safe.

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Speaker 2: To a four D being, the vault is just a

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flat square on the ground. It's an open box. They

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can just reach over the wall of the vault, moving

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through the fourth dimension and take.

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Speaker 1: You out without opening the door, touching the door.

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Speaker 2: Without breaking the lock. It would look like you just

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vanished into thin air.

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Speaker 1: For the surgery thing. If I have a tumor, same deal.

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Speaker 2: A forty doctor could remove your appendix without ever cutting

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your skin. Oh, they would reach in from I'm a

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direction where your skin doesn't exist, grab the organ and

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pull it out into the fourth dimension.

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Speaker 1: To me, looking down at my stomach, I just feel

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a weird sensation, maybe a tug, and then pop Appendic's.

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Speaker 2: Gone and no scar because the skin was never touched.

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Speaker 1: That is a violation. It's cool medically, but the idea

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that I can be reached into it.

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Speaker 2: Feels like a violation because our evolution tells us our

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skin is a wall. But to them it's trivial. It's

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like poking a finger into a ring.

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Speaker 1: And what would they look like to us? If this

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four D being decided to visit my living room, would

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I see a monster?

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't see them, not really. You would see a cross.

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Speaker 1: Section like an MRI slice.

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Speaker 2: But in real life, let's use an analogy. Imagine dipping

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a strawberry into a cup of water. You are the water.

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You live on the surface of the water.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm a two D water bug.

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Speaker 2: As the strawberry dips in, what do you see?

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Speaker 1: I see a red circle appear where the berry.

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Speaker 2: Touches the water, right, A small red circle. Then as

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the berry goes deeper, the circle gets bigger, then the

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smaller again is it off? Then it vanishes? Okay, now,

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imagine a forty being. Let's say a forty sphere, a

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hypersphere passes through your three D room roy see, you'd

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see a fleshy, solid sphere appear out of thin air.

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It would float, grow larger, pulse, shrink, and then vanish.

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Speaker 1: So it looks like a ghost.

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Speaker 2: Precisely, it's not transparent. It's just that you are seeing

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a three D slice of a forty object. It looks

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like it's morphing and shape shifting, but it's actually a

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solid object moving through a dimension you can't perceive.

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Speaker 1: That is infinitely worse than a sheet with eye holes

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that is visceral. If I saw a cross section of

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a four D hand, I might see five floating circles

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fingers that merge into one big circle the palm, and

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then disappear.

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Speaker 2: It would look like organic horror, like something out of

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a Cronenberg film. But it's just geometry.

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Speaker 1: This actually explains notts too right. The source mentioned that

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knots are impossible in forty.

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Speaker 2: Yes, remember how we said three D allows knots well.

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Forty unallows them. It breaks them, It makes them trivial.

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If you have a knotted shoelace, a nightmare in three

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D and you lift it into the fourth dimension, the

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string can simply pass around itself in that extra direction

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as falls apart sides apart. The knot was an illusion

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caused by a lack of space. Give it enough room,

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give it a fourth dimension, and the constraint vanishes.

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Speaker 1: It really makes you wonder how many of our problems

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in life, physics problems, engineering problems are just because we

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are cramped in three D.

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Speaker 2: That's the Klin bottle. You've seen those glass shapes that

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look like a bottle twisting into its own neck.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the impossible bottle yesser stuff.

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Speaker 2: In three D. It has to intersect itself, the glass

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has to pass through the glass. It looks like a glitch,

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a paradox, right, But that's because a cliin bottle is

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a fort dy object and four D it doesn't intersect.

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It loops around in that extra dimension. It has no

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inside or outside.

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Speaker 1: So when we make a glass model of it.

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Speaker 2: We are crushing a forty object into three D space,

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where breaking it to make it fit. The paradox isn't

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the object. The paradox is our world.

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Speaker 1: Care dox is our world. That is a great line,

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but we are just getting started. Four D is like

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the entry level horror, it really is. Let's go deeper

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or higher.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to five D, the fifth dimension. This is

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where physics starts to unify. This is where the magic happens.

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Speaker 1: This involves a guy named Calusa, right back in the

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nineteen twenties.

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Speaker 2: Theodore Calusa. He was a mathematician, and he did something

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incredibly bold for the time.

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Speaker 1: What I do.

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Speaker 2: He took Einstein's equations of gravity general relativity, which worked

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perfectly in four dimensions three space plus one time, and

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he just said, what if I write these equations for

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five dimensions?

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Speaker 1: That's for fun. Let's add a column to the spreadsheet

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and see what happens.

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Speaker 2: Basically, he added a fifth dimension, a spatial direction he

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imagined was curled into a tiny loop at every point

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in space, unseeably small. Okay, And when he ran the math,

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something spooky happened. The equations split into two parts. Okay,

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one part was Einstein's gravity exactly as we know it,

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no changes.

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Speaker 1: So far, so good.

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Speaker 2: But the extra part, the part that came from the

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ripples and that tiny fifth dimension. It perfectly matched Maxwell's

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equations for electromagnetism.

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Speaker 1: Wait, I need to understand this. Yeah, he didn't add

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electricity to the math. No, he just added room, and

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electricity appears exactly.

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Speaker 2: He didn't force it, It just popped out of the geometry.

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This suggests that electromagnetism, light, radio waves, magnets might not

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be a separate force. It might just be gravity vibrating

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in the fifth dimension.

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Speaker 1: Light is just a ripple in the fifth dimension. My

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Wi Fi signal is a tremor in a direction I

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can't see.

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Speaker 2: That's the implication of close acline theory. We see light

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because we can't see the fifth dimension. We see the

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shadow of the vibration.

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Speaker 1: That is beautiful. It makes the universe feel so elegant,

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so simple, deceptively simple. But then then things get weird

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with the spheres again, because apparently dimensions aren't just more room.

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Some dimensions are hostile sphere packing.

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Speaker 2: This is a great way to measure how roomy or

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efficient a dimension is. If you have a box, how

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many oranges can you fit in it? Okay, As you

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go from one D to two D to three D

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up to five D, space gets bigger. You can fit

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more volume in In five D. A unit sphere has

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the maximum possible volume relative to the space. It is

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a peak of efficiency.

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Speaker 1: Space is generous.

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Speaker 2: It's the Goldilocks zone of dimensions. Everything fits.

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Speaker 1: Then you hit the six dimension.

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Speaker 2: And the generosity ends in reality shrinks. It's completely counterintuitive.

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You add a six dimension more room, but the math

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shows that volume starts to shrink. Objects occupy less of

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the available space. Distance starts to lose, meaning.

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Speaker 1: How can adding room make things smaller? That makes no sense.

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Speaker 2: Think of it this way. As you add dimensions, the

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corners of a hypercube get further and further away from

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the center. The space becomes spiky, the middle empties out.

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It becomes inefficient to exist there. This is where string

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theory lives.

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Speaker 1: String theory needs ten dimensions, right, It usually.

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Speaker 2: Acquires ten or eleven, but specifically it uses these six

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extra dimensions beyond our four to explain why particles have

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mass and charge.

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Speaker 1: The Kelabiao shapes I've heard the name, but what are they.

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Speaker 2: Imagine a flute. The shape of the flute determines the

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sound it makes right the notes you can play.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 2: In string theory, these extra six dimensions are curled up

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into tiny complex knots called calabio manifolds. At every point

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in space and the geometry of that knot. The shape

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of the flute determines the vibration of the strings.

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Speaker 1: Which determines if a particle is an electron or a

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quark exactly.

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Speaker 2: This implies that the laws of physics, the mass of

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an electron, the strength of gravity aren't written in stone

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by a creator.

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Speaker 1: They are accidental, accidental.

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Speaker 2: They're determined by the random shape of the curled up dimensions.

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If the dimensions were folded differently, the electron might be heavier,

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atoms might not form.

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Speaker 1: The universe might be lifeless.

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Speaker 2: Right, Physics is just geography. It's just the landscape we

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happen to live in.

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Speaker 1: Physics is an environmental accident. We just live in a

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neighborhood where the calabio shapes happen to allow for carbon

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based life.

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Speaker 2: That makes me feel incredibly fragile. We are balanced on

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a geometric flut.

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Speaker 1: It really does. But let's keep climbing. We've gone through

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the messy, shrinking sixth and seventh dimensions, and then we

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hit the eighth dimension, and suddenly perfection.

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Speaker 2: Returns the islands of order. It's such a great term

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for it.

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Speaker 1: The Source called this the e eight lattice.

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Speaker 2: In eight dimensions, you can pack spheres together in a

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way that is mind bogglingly perfect. Specifically, exactly two hundred

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and forty spheres can touch a central.

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Speaker 1: Sphere, not at two thirty nine, not two.

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Speaker 2: Forty one, exactly two forty. It is a rigid crystalline

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structure of logic. It snaps into place. And this structure

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e eight shows up in the most advanced math we have.

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It appears in string theory, it appears in error correcting

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codes for computers.

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Speaker 1: So reality gets messi in sixty and seventy, but then

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snaps into a perfect grid in eighty.

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Speaker 2: It suggests that dimensionality isn't neutral. Some dimensions amplify chaos

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and some amplify order.

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Speaker 1: And then there's dimension twenty four.

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Speaker 2: The leech lattice.

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Speaker 1: The name even sounds cool, like a villain's layer.

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Speaker 2: In twenty four dimensions, you hit another peak of perfection.

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One sphere can be touched by exactly one hundred ninety

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six thousand, five hundred and sixty others.

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Speaker 1: That is a very specific number, one hundred ninety six thousand,

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five hundred and sixty.

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Speaker 2: And it's crucial. This specific geometry isn't just theory, it

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is used in the real world. We use the math

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of the leech lattice in the Voyager space probes.

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Speaker 1: Wait, the probes we sent to deep space in the seventies.

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Speaker 2: How yes, when Voyager sends a signal back to Earth,

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it's faint. It's full of static and noise from the

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vacuum of space.

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Speaker 1: Right it's billions of miles away.

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Speaker 2: So we use a code based on twenty four dimensional

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geometry to figure out which bits of data are real

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and which are noise.

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Speaker 1: So we're using twenty four dimensional math to repair the

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information exactly.

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Speaker 2: The structure of twenty forty space is so robust, so redundant,

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that it protects information from destruction. It's like the data

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has more places to hide from the noise.

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Speaker 1: That's almost coetic. Information survives chaos because of twenty four

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dimensional geometry.

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Speaker 2: It's like the universe has a built in backup drive.

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Speaker 1: It makes you wonder if the universe itself uses these

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higher dimensions to store the truth where the chaos of

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the three D world can't corrupt it. It's a fascinating thought,

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but sadly the perfection doesn't last because now we have

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to talk about the collapse. What happens when we go

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to dimensions nine, ten, and forty two.

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Speaker 2: This is where the human mind just breaks. Let's start

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with the hypercube problem in nine and ten dimensions.

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Speaker 1: The inside is bigger than the outside problem, which sounds

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like a tartis but worse.

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Speaker 2: It's way worse. If you put a sphere inside a

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cube in three D, the sphere is contained. It touches

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the walls simple enough, but as you add dimensions, the

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corners of the cube get further and further away from

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the center, The diagonal gets longer, and by the time

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you reach the tenth dimension, the geometry is so distorted

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that the sphere has to grow incredibly large just to

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touch the faces of the cube. It grows so large

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that it actually starts poking out of the cube's corners.

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Speaker 1: Wait, the sphere is defined as being inside.

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Speaker 2: And yet mathematically parts of the sphere are now outside.

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Speaker 1: The cube, so it containment fails.

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Speaker 2: The concepts of inside and outside stop making sense. A

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boundary no longer bounds, nothing is safe, nothing is solid.

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In ten dimensions, you cannot lock anything away.

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Speaker 1: That is deeply unsettling. It's like saying a prisoner's too

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big for his cell, so he just exists in the

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hallway while still being in the cell.

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Speaker 2: It's a fundamental breakdown obstruction. Yeah, and then you get

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to dimension forty two.

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Speaker 1: The sausage catastrophe. I love that name, the sausage catastrophe.

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It sounds like a bad picnic, but the math is serious.

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Speaker 2: It's a theorem about packing. In three D. If you

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want to pack spheres efficiently, you cluster them like a

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pyramid of oranges at the grocery store.

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Speaker 1: Right, A nice tight cluster, best use of space.

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Speaker 2: That holds true for a while. As you go up

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in dimensions, clustering is still the best way. But at

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dimension forty two the.

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Speaker 1: Math breaks breaks.

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Speaker 2: How Suddenly the most efficient way to pack spheres is

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not a cluster. It's a straight line. The sausage, a long,

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infinite line of spheres.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you can't just drop that and move on.

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Why does a universe with more room force things into

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a line? Intuition says, if I have a bigger box,

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I can make a bigger pile of oranges.

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Speaker 2: That's three D thinking in forty two dimensions, the corners

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of the box are so far away from the center

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that the volume of the box is mostly in the corners,

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not the middle.

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Speaker 1: The middle emptis out.

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Speaker 2: Center becomes a useless concept. The math proves that to

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keep spheres touching, you run out of middle space to

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cluster them. The only way to keep them efficient is

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to stretch them out into a single, lonely line.

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Speaker 1: So the geometry literally pulls communities apart.

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Speaker 2: The universe stops rewarding structure and starts demanding monotony. Space

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becomes indifferent.

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Speaker 1: Intellectually humiliating. That's what the source called it.

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Speaker 2: It is It tells us that order doesn't always emerge. Sometimes,

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if you give a system too much freedom, too many dimensions,

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it collapses into a boring straight line.

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Speaker 1: So if we lived in a forty two dimensional universe,

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planet wouldn't form atoms Wooden cluster likely not.

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Speaker 2: Complexity requires constraint. Without the cramped nature of three D space,

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interesting things can't happen. We need the walls to bounce

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off of.

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Speaker 1: This leads to a massive cosmological theory mentioned in the analysis,

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the idea that our universe is a cooled residue.

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Speaker 2: This involves MODULEI and axions ghosts of geometry. The theory

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suggests that in the split second after the Big Bang,

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the universe might have had all these dimensions active. It

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was hot, energetic, and.

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Speaker 1: Ten dimensional and chaotic, everything poking out of everything else,

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the sausage catastrophe everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Extremely But then it cooled. The extra dimensions curled up

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and hid. The Moduley particles that were vibrations of these

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dimensions decayed, and what was left us us, the three

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D world. We are the ash leftover after the fire

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burned out. We are the stable, boring crusts that formed

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when the chaotic ten D universe cooled down.

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Speaker 1: So physics as we know it, the laws we trust

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are just the settling process.

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Speaker 2: Correct, We aren't fundamental, We are stabilized. We are the

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version of reality that stopped moving.

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Speaker 1: That reframes everything we think we are the main characters.

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We might not be, but actually we are just the

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leftovers with a slag at the bottom of the furnace.

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Speaker 2: And that brings us to the final and perhaps most

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existential layer of this thread, the observer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've talked about geometry, but now we have to

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talk about consciousness because all of this math assumes there's

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something there.

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Speaker 2: To measure it, and quantum mechanics throws a wrench in everything.

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Speaker 1: The classic double slit experiment.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, an electron acts like a wave, a spread of

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possibilities until you look at it. The moment you observe it,

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it becomes a particle. It picks a location.

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Speaker 1: Reality responds to knowledge, which is terrifying.

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Speaker 2: It implays that dimension isn't just a place, it's a condition.

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The universe is waiting for an observer to tell it

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what to be.

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Speaker 1: And this leads to Wigner's friend. This paradox always melts

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my brain.

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Speaker 2: It's the ultimate who watches the waters scenario?

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Speaker 1: Walk us through it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you have a scientist in a sealed lab. She

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measures a particle. The particle collapses to spin up. To her,

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the reality is set. It happened.

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Speaker 1: Okay, she wrote it down. It's a fact.

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Speaker 2: But outside the lab there is a second observer, Wigner.

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He hasn't opened the door yet. To him, the scientists

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and the particle are still in a state of superposition.

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How does that mean they are both spin up and

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spin down at the same time. The entire lab, from

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his perspective, is a quantum haze.

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Speaker 1: So the scientist thinks reality is real, but Wigner thinks

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the scientist is just a ghost of probability.

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Speaker 2: Until he opens the door. Then he collapses the scientist's

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reality into his own.

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Speaker 1: But what if there's a third guy outside the building?

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Speaker 2: Exactly where does it end? The implication is that reality

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is not globally consistent, it is locally coherent. My reality

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is real to me, yours is real to you, but

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they might not match up until we interact.

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Speaker 1: We are living in bubbles of consistent see floating in

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a soup of probability.

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Speaker 2: And this leads to the many world's interpretation, the idea

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that dimensions aren't directions you travel, but branches you inhabit.

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Speaker 1: Every choice splits the universe.

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Speaker 2: You don't make choices. Every choice happens, and one branch

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you turn left, in another you turned right, and both

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are equally real.

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Speaker 1: And if you look at that from the tenth dimension,

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from the top of the tree.

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Speaker 2: You see the whole tree. You see all the branches

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at once. You see every version of yourself that ever

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existed or could exist, all laid out.

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Speaker 1: And that static view, that God's I view. It removes

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the narrative, that is.

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Speaker 2: The indifference of structure. If you see the whole tree.

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You don't care about the one leaf struggling in the wind.

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Speaker 1: It's just part of the pattern.

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Speaker 2: Suffering, effort, drama. Those things rely on the illusion that

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this moment is the only moment. If all moments exist

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at once, then the drama is gone.

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Speaker 1: It's just geometry becoming gives way to being.

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Speaker 2: That's the perfect way to phrase it.

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Speaker 1: That is cold.

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Speaker 2: It is cold, But is it hostile? The source argues,

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it's not. It's just indifferent. The universe isn't trying to

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scare us with Cuthulhu monsters in the sixth dimension. It

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just doesn't care about our story. It cares about the shape.

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Speaker 1: So where does that leave us? We started this episode

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talking about ghosts walking through walls, and we've ended up

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questioning if our free will is just a geometric shape

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and if we are just the leftovers of the Big Bang.

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Speaker 2: I think there is a strange relief in this insignificant relief.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how is being a three D shadow relieving?

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Speaker 2: Think about the anxiety we all feel, that sense that

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something is off, that the world is too big, too complex,

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that low level hum of dread.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel that every Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: That anxiety is correct we are leaving in a constrained projection.

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We're three D shadows of a ten D object. Of

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course it feels weird.

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Speaker 1: It's not supposed to feel complete.

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Speaker 2: Our intuition evolved to find food and avoid tigers in

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three D, it did not evolve to understand the tenth dimension.

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Speaker 1: So when I feel overwhelmed by the universe, it's just

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because I'm trying to run ten D software on three.

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Speaker 2: D hardware precisely. And the fact that we can exist

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at all is the miracle.

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Speaker 1: The compromise.

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Speaker 2: Reality compromises. It hides the extra dimensions, It locks them

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away in calibio manifolds. It stabilizes the surfaces, It forces

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time to move forward. Why so we can live because

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a fully aware ten dimensional universe might be unlivable. If

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walls didn't work, if time didn't flow, if you could

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see everyone's internal organs, you couldn't function, You couldn't be human.

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Speaker 1: So the trap of the third dimension, the prison we

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talked about at the beginning.

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Speaker 2: It's not a prison. It's a cradle. It's a protective

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shell that allows consciousness to experience a story.

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Speaker 1: Physics doesn't break at higher dimensions.

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Speaker 2: It just let's go it.

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Speaker 1: Let's go of the rules.

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Speaker 2: We need to reveal the truth we can't handle.

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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, that is a lot to process. We've gone

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from lines to planes, to flying cars, to sausage catastrophes

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to the cradle of reality.

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Speaker 2: It's a wild ride through the math.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's where we have to leave it,

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or my head is actually going to explode into the

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fourth dimension. But before we go, I want to leave

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you the listener with a question, a direct question, based

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on everything we discussed today.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear it.

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Speaker 1: If your life is just a static, completed geometric shape

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in the fourth dimension, if your birth and death are

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just two points on a line that already exists, does

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your current struggle feel less heavy? Does it relieve you

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to know the story is written?

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Speaker 2: Or does it make it worse?

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Speaker 1: Or does it make your choice feel meaningless? Are you

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comforted by the structure or are you terrified by the cage?

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Speaker 2: That is the ultimate question, freedom versus fate through the

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lens of geometry.

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Speaker 1: Leave us a comment, let us know where you stand.

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I'm really curious if people find this comforting or nightmarish.

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Speaker 2: I'm guessing a bit of both.

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Speaker 1: Probably all right, check your dimensions. Make sure your internal

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organs are still on the inside, and we will see

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you next time on thrilling threads.

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Speaker 2: Stay safe in three D