Shit, The Hippies May Have Been Right

It figures that we owe our existence to one of the dumbest and least practical artforms on the planet.

“The physics inside a hypothetical universe with five dimensions and shaped like a Pringle is the same as the physics taking place on the four-dimensional boundary” seems the most enjoyably weird quote, while “Forget Quantum of Solace, we would have directly observed the quantum of time,” is just a bad joke (though accurate).

Physics is deeply confusing….

I can’t even pretend that I understand that article.

On one hand, I dread articles like these because you can just smell the anti-intellectuals comping at their bits to cry out how silly and useless scientists really are. But on the other hand, I am always overjoyed when somebody suggests we’ve come closer to understand the essential properties of space-time, because I’d like to see warp drives in my lifetime.

I don’t think this is some major, world-shaking revelation, though. We’ve long known most of what we perceive in an optical illusion. And now we can all call ourselves flatlanders.