Name: We Start With a Point (but what's the point?)
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We Start With a Point

Rob Bryanton

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Rob Bryanton's 2006 book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" spawned an 11-minute animation that began with these "we start with a point". That animation, which shows a way to visualize ten spatial dimensions, has been seen by millions; and Rob's 10thdim channel on YouTube is currently at 20 million views. A composer and sound mixer for film and television, Rob's freewheeling explorations blend physics, philosophy, sacred geometry, spirituality, Eastern mysticism, and much more. In his book The New Science of Psychedelics, author and psychobiologist David Jay Brown said "Physicist Michio Kaku's book A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension and Rob Bryanton's Imagining the Tenth Dimension both seem to provide uncanny maps of the territory that one encounters after smoking salvia or DMT. Like the two-dimensional character in Edwin Abbott's book Flatland, we seem just as limited in our three-dimensional perspective." Rob's new book continues the exploration, showing how discoveries in the last few years - like the detection of gravity waves and the demonstration of time crystals - are further confirmation of his "new way of thinking about time and space". In his 2014 book The Science of Interstellar, Nobel laureate Kip Thorne describes the same ideas Rob has been promoting since 2006: our probabilistic outcomes of Everett's Many Worlds are accessed via the fifth dimension. An observer in the fifth dimension would see those different possible worldlines stretching out around them in the 4D geometries of the tesseract. The key to this approach is to understand that the fourth dimension, which we experience in a uniquely limited way, is really just as spatial as the other dimensions; and our access to the fifth dimension, where Everett's Universal Wavefunction is calculated, occurs one Planck frame after another, giving us the impression that the extra dimensions are "curled up at the Planck length". From the beginning, Rob has always made it clear that he is not a physicist and not pretending to be one. Nonetheless, he is convinced that there is an "essential truth" to his approach to visualizing the dimensions, and this is one of the reasons for the continuing popularity of his project around the world. Are you ready for a mind-expanding experience? Let We Start With a Point open you up to new possibilities.

272 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 24, 2020