From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:08:38 +0000, John D wrote:   
      
   > No. But since I've watched "What the bleep do we know?" I've started to   
   > wonder if this is a dream and all is not as it seems.   
      
   You would have to stretch the meaning of "dream" way beyond the point at   
   which it snapped.   
      
   The idea that "all this is an illusion" is at least as old as buddhism;   
   but, IMO, it doesn't really make sense as a philosophy, if only for the   
   reason that it makes no difference.  Whether you call it a dream, or   
   not it's completely real to those within it.   
      
   You could equally well assert that this is all a vast simulation in some   
   computer (which is actually quite likely, according to some philosophers).   
      
   > The idea that   
   > nothing is solid, everything is energy, the components that make up   
   > everything blink out of existence and then back in... where do they go?   
      
   They don't.  It's true that "empty" space is full of "virtual" particles,   
   which flicker in and out of existence before the universe really notices   
   they are there, but your ordinary "solid" matter is just that.  ("solid"   
   here has the traditional meaning of "being mostly empty" ;-)   
      
   > Is   
   > it possible that at a given moment in time all of our energy is existing   
   > in another dimension?   
      
   Not really, if I'm reading the spirit of your question correctly.   
      
   > Or in millions of other dimensions?   
      
   Why do you think there _are_ millions of other dimensions?   
   IIRC string theory says there are probably eleven.   
      
   > Why are we not   
   > aware of other dimensions if we coexist in them?   
      
   Because they're curled up _really_ small!   
      
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