M-Superstring Theory continues to advance and in the process reveal new and very unusual properties of what I can only call Pythagorus' Cosmos. In fact, M-Superstring Theory reaches back almost 3000 years to ancient Greece and the Father of Just About Everything, Pythagorus, and his "music of the spheres." Little did he know back then (or did he?) that he'd uncovered the basics of a Unified Field Theory, that ideal that eluded even Einstein up to his death. Okay. So, Pythagorus' Cosmos. What is it exactly?

Redefined, it the sum of an infinite number of universes, one of which is our. These universes can be imagined as spheres with rippling surfaces that are, we assume, expanding like ours and so close to each other, that occasionally in cosmic time, they interact. This interaction is what we call a "Big Bang" and when it occurs, it creates another "parallel" universe. Except, of course, it's not really parallel. It's more like the baby that results from two people. All three share some commonalities, but each are unique to some extent. I can imagine a very "noisy" cosmos with "Big Bangs" being more common than rare or singular. 

This all exists, of course, not in three dimensions, even four (time being the fourth dimension), but in exactly 11 dimensions, of which we can only sense the first four. That means we can't easily sense another universe even if it exists literally pressed against our universe. So why do we have only seven sensory transducers, then (smell, taste, touch, hearing, vision and, if you believe, Dr. Daniel S. Janik's UNLOCK THE GENIUS WITHIN (Rowman & Littlefield 2015), "gut feelings" and time consciousness? Actually they can't directly sample different dimensions or universes but only select areas of the electromagnetic spectrum within our universe according to it's unique composition and processes. 

What fascinates me as an author is the possibility of M-Superstring Theory explaining some here-to-fore unexplainable phenomena such as psychosis and death. In the first case, perhaps "mentally ill" individuals are simply not strongly grounded in our universe to be "all here." Instead, they are partially here and partially grounded in one or more other universes. That would require a completely different approach to the treatment of mental illness. In the second case, perhaps our concepts of dying and moving on to heaven or hell simply reflect our innate sense that when we die our spirit leaves this universe (it's no longer grounded in it) and can travel to other universes, where, as primary spirit, it can inhabit some physical object or, if there are bodies, another body or something like that. If the similarity between our and this new universe is close (especially if it serves the spirit better than our universe) it would be experienced as a kind of heaven. If the new universe is considerably different (especially if it doesn't sere the spirit better than this one) it would be experienced as a kind of hell. 

I tapped lightly into M-Superstring Theory when I wrote QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) with A. G. Hayes. The M-Superstring Theory Hitchkok MacGuffin in the story was the ability of quantum effects to "ripple" through our universe, in this case the USA, and, where they intersected, gain intensity and effect.