Bill Sheppard wrote:
From Double-A:

The big question is why we experience
the universe in only three spatial
dimensions instead of four, or six, or
nine."

And these same guys scoff at the
religious who believe in things that are
undetectable.

Heh. They have a religion of their own that's fundamentalist, inviolable
and absolute.. the 'No Medium' doctrine, and they worship at the altar
of the Void. The Void-Space religion is replete with its own sacraments
and trappings: geometry, metrics, 'messengers thru the Void' that
magically 'know' to fly at exactly c, 'unseen dimensions', all
latter-day equivalents of the angels and imps of the medieval church.
Seems like humans are hardwired with the 'God' gene,
and all we do is swap one religion for another. oc


You might call it a paradigm, groupthink, mass hysteria, or
brainwashing.

It is an interesting aspect of human psychology: the readiness to
believe what a group of other people around you thinks.

I personally think it colors our thinking in many ways, not just in
science or religion.

But only if we can break out of this groupthink behavior can we have
any hope of seeing and understanding things as they really are.

Double-A