Phil Ayesho
Superior Member
No, no they have not. It's illuminating that you peddle misinformation as part of your argument (either you are being intentionally dishonest, or someone else was when they told you that non-fact and you never bothered to check if it was true or not).
Quite right.
mathematics is a fun parlor game that can be used to create all kinds of nonsensical fantasies... The fact that you can Invent a math in which 11 dimensions works out on paper has no bearing whatsoever on reality.
e.g. there are math models that support 23 dimensions... and CDT, which seems to explain reality with only the 3 we can actually verify.
Aerodynamic theorems quantify a "force" called 'lift', which in fact does not exist, but because the equations were worked out from actual observed behavior, they still work, even if they create an imaginary force and do not actually describe the reality of why wings work.
At present... there is not one iota of evidence that there exist ANY dimensions other than the three we perceive.
(einstein characterized time as a fourth dimension... but, in fact, it is not a dimension because we can not actually move about in that dimension. The fact that the present changes and that we can, presently, recall prior states creates the illusion of time as a dimension... but that does not make it real, nor fantasies of time travel possible )
We have the ability to IMAGINE things that do not exist and can not exist.
We create fictional narrative... but that is a fancy term for LYING.
That we can SUPPOSE something fantastical does NOT make it even remotely more likely to be true.
Evidence rules. Everything else is mere supposition.
As far as we can tell, the universe makes sense... it follows certain causal probabilities.
If you posit intelligent life forms on another world... then you are positing something we KNOW to have happened here, on Earth.
And that means that ALL the causal forces that shaped US are likely to be the same causal forces needed to shape another form of intelligent life.
Just the notion that they would build spaceships and be curious to see other worlds is already a HUGE qualification of the KIND of creatures they might be and how they might have evolved.
It makes them LIKE US in the most critical ways.
And that means their actions would make sense to us.
Its important to have an open mind, sure... but it is essential that you have a bouncer at the door to your brain who requires i.d. in the form of EVIDENCE.
Otherwise, any old trash can just saunter right in...