Kaku and Carp
How could we begin to understand the possibility of other dimensions? Michio Kaku developed an interesting metaphor for looking at the problem in this COSMOS magazine article. The article reads:
“Wondering in the way that only a child does, Kaku looked at the carp swimming in a weedy pond and imagined how they would not be able to conceive of other worlds. “A carp engineer would believe that was all there is; but a carp physicist would see the ripples on the surface and start thinking about unseen dimensions,” Kaku told me, laying the first of many lashes on his token engineer.”
A curious notion that the forces that shape our universe are the “ripples” of unseen dimensions.
