I’m rereading Physics of the Impossible, an excellent book by celebrity physicist Dr. Michio Kaku. In the chapter on multiple dimensions, he made mention of computing in hyperspace. I don’t have the book with me at the moment, so I’ll do my best to quote what he wrote:
The bolded sentence is what struck me. Dr. Kaku provided no further explanation on that. What did he mean that computers compute in hyperspace all the time?
If you require me to post the paragraph verbatim, I’ll do it later tonight after work.
Maybe he meant that they can, and do, use data arranged in n-dimensional arrays. That could metaphorically be described a computing in hyperspace (but it is far from the same thing as proving any other dimensions exist - it just shows that they can be represented).
Frankly, I totally lost any faith that I may have had in Michio Kaku good sense when I heard him on the radio the other day saying that in order to solve the problem of the Gulf oil spill, they should consult a physicist. Riight, because no scientists have been consulted at any stage of these events, and as we all know, all forms of expertise (geology, marine ecology, meteorology, etc.) are encompassed by physics.:rolleyes:
Makes perfect sense. Oddly enough, that hadn’t occurred to me even though I’ve worked with n-dimensional arrays. I was thinking of something fantastic, like calculations done at the quantum level, or something. Maybe in the near future.
