I was meditating in my car (my body drove home on autopilot) when I started thinking about science, the point of it, and the Large Hadron Collider. I remember how one bureaucratic chairman begged the question to a scientist of the LHC: "Will this machine help us find God?" Needless to say, the scientist said, "Higgs boson" and the funding was slowed, but the LHC was eventually built anyways. I then thought of the purpose of science, and realized that it was to ameliorate the human condition. But what human condition, I wondered? "The transient nature of our existence," answered my consciousness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blablabla.gif)

At that time, my mind was brought to a visualization of me as a physics professor, teaching that point. That all things are transient, and that we as a people are using science to find ways to ameliorate or even override that condition. My mind shifted then to a physics professor that I had that explained a similar point, but from a more scientific perspective: All atoms are inter-dimensionally percolating in and out of existence, in a transient fashion, and that all things pass from this world. "The atoms of this table are constantly popping in and out of existence altogether, with the atoms more often here then 'there.' The real questions are, 'what is this -there-?' 'where is it?' and therein is the answer, the source of everything."

I thought to myself, "hmm...inter-dimensional percolation? I saw a graph of that somewhere... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused012.gif) So I went upstairs to my library, and I found the book Adventures Beyond the Body by William Buhlman. There, in pages 88-90 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mf_bookread.gif) (1996 edition) were two visuals. The first was a cylindrical cross-section representation of the layers of our inter-dimensional reality, showing our reality as a metaphoric relationship between the physical realms and the other realms as the mathematical difficulties of comparing the surface area of the top of the cylinder to the volume of the cylinder itself; an extra dimension of math is needed to solve the equation, something that 2 dimensions cannot solve for three (if in accordance with the visual).

The second visual, on page 90, was explaining that all dimensions inhabit the exact same space-time as the physical dimension and that there are emanations from the central dimensional core, traversing through dimensions to our dimension. I recognized this pattern of movement, according to the spherical visual aid, as something like the convection currents of granules in a main-sequence star like our sun.
Granules
Convection zones

It then finally clicked in my head: The true nature of our universe is holographic-- fractalized from every dimension, to every dimension. Even our stars mimic the same movements and nature of existence itself. Our stars mirror the convective properties of our inter-dimensional reality.

It makes me wonder, however, and ask more questions:

What causes our atoms to weave 'out' of the core-ward dimensions?
What mechanics describe the inter-dimensional movement of our atoms?
What is the point of our being in this outermost dimension?
Given that our atoms are parcels of inter-dimensionally percolating energies, what is the purpose of the core-ward movement to which the atoms return to the core, just to come back to this dimension?

Which leads me to my final question, and is perhaps THE question. The Great Question: Why are we -here-?

I'm sorry if I jumped around a bit in this thread. I am trying to concentrate my energy in not forgetting my thought paths that brought me to my questions.

This post has been edited by Xenomancer: Nov 17 2008, 01:11 PM