“MajorPrep”, a video channel for math, physics, and CS
students largely, offers “Higher Dimensions Get Really Weird: The Mathematics
of What We Can and Cannot Imagine”
In the beginning he talks about platonic solids (dice), and
Euler’s number – and soon migrates to Mobius strips and unknotting numbers. A
seaman’s knot in the Navy is based on this kind of topology.
His central object is the Klein Bottle, which has a “hole”
in three dimensional space because we don’t live in more than than 3.
I hadn’t realized that academic mathematicians have studied
manifolds of up to 256 dimensions.
String theory supposes that there are eleven.
My screenplay "Epiphany" imagines a Mobius strip (almost, it fractures at one spot) as a subway on a space station, and interesting things can happen if you ride it.
If your perfect boyfriend at Pride can disappear and reappear at will like Clark Kent, then he lives in four dimensions (and shrinks and expands and contracts when he comes for a visit to your dimension). That's how your boyfriend can be an alien (and get around Trump's travel bans). This could be how the Ascension happened, too. (But not the birth.)
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