Where are the other dimensions?
Are there only 3 space and one time dimension or are there more?
The other dimensions are thought of as curled or hidden by string theorists. Is that true? If not, how are they to be understood, recognized or felt in the societal-spacetime?
One way to answer these questions might be to visualize their presence in the natural languages and the organization of societal relationships. For example, one may make a plan to meet anyone. In order to make this happen in reality, it would be necessary to specify a date from a calendar, a time from a geographical time zone, a place or an address in a geographical location, a room on a floor of a high rise building, a list of people that are meeting, an agenda for the meeting, a list references providing a topic or topics for discussion, or a reason for the meeting and many such contexts. Are not each of these listed types of items a dimension in the abstract world of societal relationships? If yes, ought not these be recognized as the other extra dimensions that are supposed to be curled up or hidden? Why do we ignore these obvious presence of extra dimensions from our everyday realities and claim there are only four spatial dimensions? Probably because we do not have or know the mathematics to describe them? Since, I am not a mathematician and am unaware of all the mathematical discoveries over the past centuries, I do not want to prejudge or conclude that we do not know/have a way to describe them. Perhaps we do and I am just unaware of them.
Another myth, about the spacetime is that it is an arrow that only goes forward and cannot be reversed. It might be true, perhaps for a conventional clock, and the geographical spacetime it measures on the surface of the earth, but what about the societal-spacetime which is an abstract notion distinct from the physical spacetime and yet entangled with it as described by the planned meet. In that state of entanglement, of course, it appears to be irreversible as well. There indeed are three distinct states - past, present and the future. Could this limitation not be attributed to the tool of natural languages and the perception of reality through culture, education and societal practices? Isn’t this medium of reality perpetuating the notion of irreversible spacetime? Let me elaborate this question through an illustration with a different medium of reality we all are quite accustomed to? Films, videos and movies. We can record an event, such as the breaking of an egg to make an omelet, perhaps in a video and then replay it in reverse. When we do so, won’t the egg be back unbroken and the omelet unmade? Doesn’t the medium of video, change our perception that spacetime is irreversible? The importance of the medium for tracking any reality, can not be understated. It is the medium, that constraints any perception of reality. A medium can have blind spots, just like the driver of a moving vehicle might have blind spots around that vehicle. A medium, which might be thought of akin to a vehicle, might have been the major stumbling block from experiencing the realities around us.
If such a simple mechanism as a medium can blind side humanity and the humanities for centuries, what other societal calamities might have been avoided with better mechanisms?
Where are the other dimensions?
Here is a physicist's view of where the hidden dimensions might be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9If-K9R3Ka4
It indeed seems difficult to function without the mediums that limit perceptions. Is an omniscient humanity possible if we discover a transparent or translucent medium with 360 global view all around? I am reminded of a translucent jelly fish swimming in the ocean.