| View Larger Image | Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking About Time and Space | Hardcoverby Rob Bryanton (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Trafford Publishing | | Page Count: | 228 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 06, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 252,704nd |
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"A fascinating excursion into the multiverse - clear, elegant, personal, provocative." - (Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Greg Bear.) Read the book whose companion website (tenthdimension.com) has already achieved worldwide popularity. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 19 reviews)
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A waste of dimensions by Mike (CA)  1 Stars
October 19, 2009
Bryanton doesn't understand what a dimension is, so unfortunately this book a waste of trees. His exposition contains the logical flaw where the dimension 5 to 7 are a subset of the dimension 7 to 9 (he doesn't actually come up with a tenth dimension), that is he defines dimension 5-7 in anthropomorphic terms (ie related to personal lives) and defines them as orthogonal to all universes' probability spaces. As we are part of the universe our time lines are segments of, within and part of all universes' time-lines, so are obviously not orthogonal and independent, otherwise you would have to consider histories of planets and atoms as separate dimension to be logically consistent.
Bryanton is adept in the art of the pseudoscience, throwing in plenty of references to actual science that he obviously only understands superficially (else his book would not have these obvious flaws). The book is mainly full of "new-age" feel good philosophy and is accompanied by a very slick website - don't waste your dimensions :).
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Don't Do It by William M. Armstrong (Charlotte, NC, USA) 1 Stars
July 14, 2009
Bryant displays a science fiction-esque knowledge of higher dimensionality. There seems to be only mention of time as the 4d which isn't really relevant to string theory. Where is the talk of 4+ SPATIAL dimensions or a Feynman diagram or actual mathematics or elementary particles? Furthermore, to use the term string theory anywhere in the vicinity of this book is pretty egregious.
I wish real physicists would flame this guy more. Even a physics undergrad has a better grasp of the subject. If you're interested, I would recommend The Cosmic Landscape by Leonard Susskind who is actually a physicist. What a concept.
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Interesting, but different than I expected by S. J. Krause (Kenosha, WI USA)  3 Stars
July 04, 2009
I expected this to be an explanation of the 10 dimensions M-theory, or string theory or something. It started out that way, for the first chapter. I enjoyed it right up until he started trying to tackle thopics that didn't have anything to do with the higher dimensions, such as ghosts and predestination/freewill. Go into this book realizing that half of it is philosophy, and you'll be fine.
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Keyword here is "imagining"... by Jacob Davies  5 Stars
May 14, 2009
I enjoyed this book a great deal, but I think it's important to keep in mind that it is about imagining and visualizing things, and not about mathematical representations. I see a lot of reviews of it here that complain about the lack of scientific rigour, but the author himself would be the first to tell you that the book is not a precise scientific treatment.
With that said, it is also an extremely thoughtful description of some of the possibilities that emerge from the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, and I think if you dismiss it because the mapping to the mathematical concept of dimension is too direct for you, you are missing something worth reading and thinking about.
I'm a reasonably well-read amateur in the fields of physics and math, and I do not think the way he describes dimensions is completely out of whack with how the world might really work. Neither the book nor I endorse the "anything could happen at any time for no reason" idea, or tries hard to tie quantum concepts to religion, but rather it explores how it is that the things that do actually happen could come to be. Reality is a very strange thing, and I think that any physicist who claims to have grasped what it is, exactly, is deluding themself. That doesn't mean we cannot know what it is, that it is an eternal mystery, though parts of it may turn out to be that; but that we do not at present know everything about it.
So, back to the book. As I say in the title: the keyword here is "imagining". This book is as much a trip through philosophy, consciousness and reality using the familiar concepts of dimension as it is an attempt to explain the dimensions themselves. But the insight into dimension as "a way of varying" that is consistently put forward through the book ought to be interesting to anyone. It frequently helps in all kinds of fields to look at things in terms of a finite-dimensional space containing a dynamic system. The better you can map the concept of variation to dimension, the easier you will find that kind of thing.
If you have a particularly visual imagination, you'll find it a good time. If you enjoy science-fiction that speculates about the deep nature of reality, you'll enjoy it. If you're looking for a textbook on quantum physics, this is not it, and the author tells you so himself.
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Just Plain Goofy by H. Burtney 1 Stars
October 12, 2008
I didn't like this book because it's written by somebody with a pedestrian understanding of scientific method and logical rigor. Sort of like a book for the layman written by the layman (it does more harm than good). Byranton is out of his field here and it really shows.
To boot, the book is poorly written and incoherent. There's really no discernible pattern to Bryanton's thoughts. Not to mention the poetry/songs in the back of the book are just plain goofy. I mean, honestly, what was Byranton thinking?
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