On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:47:00 +0200, Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>>> More fully: Some formulations of string theory suggest that the
>>> universe has as many as 11 spatial dimensions. The obvious question is
>>> then "so why can't I see any of them?", and the only answer anybody
>>> has come up with is "well, maybe they're really tiny..."
>>
>> That one is easy. Simply because our eyes can only see in 2d. We can
>> perceive 3d images because of the stereoscopic effect of having 2 eyes.
>
> That doesn't explain why visible objects around us only move in 3  
> dimensions. If there were more dimensions and we should somehow only  
> "see" 3 of them, we should see objects constantly zipping into and out  
> of the 3D slice we can perceive.

Hmm yes. I'll have to throw that theory out the window...

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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