Reddit reviews Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking About Time and Space

I just want to point out that he has no formal education in science. He is basically a crackpot.

The explanation in this video of the fifth dimension is as a "probability space of Everett's Many Worlds" theorem and this idea has not been accepted mainstream science. Mainstream physics understands the fifth dimension as a spatial (space) dimension, not a temporal (time) dimension.

Read the reviews for his book, he is called out throughout the reviews by people that actually know what they are talking about.

http://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Tenth-Dimension-Thinking-About/dp/1425103804

If you actually buy the book that this guy wrote, it goes into some weird (and even more unscientific) shit.

Here's the reviews. The one star reviews paint a more accurate picture:

http://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Tenth-Dimension-Thinking-About/product-reviews/1425103804

That video has fuck-all to do with string theory. It's just newagey nonsense from this guy. Read the reviews of the book. They're high-larious.

Funny you mention the guy. I thought your idea might come from him. I took the time to rewatch the video since it as been a long time.

He does mention some individual concept that have merit on their own, but his theory as a whole is garbage. Any physicist would cringe watching the video you linked. He disregard any of the actual mathematical concept that underlie the theory he's talking about. As a stated earlier, if you want to mix and match dimension with possibility, you end up with an infinite dimension space not a ten one. It as something to do with the many world interpretation describing an Hilbert space of probable outcomes.

Here are some review of his book on Amazone. They tell more eloquently then me how he is full of crap.

This guy has absolutely no scientific background and is mostly spouting non-sense. It's an interesting concept to think about I guess, but it has no merit into describing the truth of our universe whatsoever. I would invite you to use other sources of information upon which to build your worldview. This one is no good.

The person who made the video you linked to is a musician, not a scientist, and he doesn't know what he's talking about.

edit: His name is Rob Bryanton and here is his book

Well, the book based on it is filed in the Occult section on Amazon. And, let's have a look at a review:

I bought the book, because I am a graduate student in string theory and was curious about "new" ways of thinking in ten dimensions. I knew the author of the book was actually a musician (some research with google was required for that), but so is Brian May of Queen, and his book "BANG - THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE" is very well-written. Well, I couldn't be more wrong. Whereas Brian May studied physics (and is currently doing his long-lost PhD), Bryanton has never touched a scientific article, let alone stood near the mathematics required to grasp them. All his "knowledge" comes from science fiction (which he uses as genuine "references" for his wild ideas), popular science books (Greene, Kaku and Randall) and Scientific American.

Although the book is not intended to be a discription of "real physics", as he points out in the introduction, his ideas on ten dimensions and the alledged connection to string theory and the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics couldn't be stated more explicitely and couldn't be more wrong. The many world interpretation 'assumes' multiple universes in which all possible quantum processes do happen. Bryanton thinks these multiverses are in the dimensions 5 to 10. Moreover, our third spatial dimension is merely the thing "we fold through" to go from one place on a surface to another, which are not directly linked. If he is referring to the holographic principle, he's wrong there as well. Physically and mathematically, what he claims about space and time is absolute bullocks, if I may use the expression. The first chapter is exactly what is shown on his website and the rest is just a filler in which he tries to explain the ideas of quantum observation and its relation to philosophy, poorly. There is absolutely no (scientific) connection to string theory or whatsoever, except that the number 10 and the word dimensions are in the same sentence. The eleven dimensions of M-theory are in his view superfluous.

The book is perhaps intended to be scientifically and philosophically provocative, but in fact it is scientifically incorrect and at most philosophically boring. If you really want to know something about string theory and modern developments on a non-technical level, buy The Elegant Universe or The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Hyperspace or Parallel Universes by Michio Kaku, or Warped Passages by Lisa Randall, and your money will be well-spent. Other ideas on quantum gravity can be found in Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity". For the mathematical inclined reader (as Greene would call it in the notes), Penrose's "The Road to Reality" could be interesting, which is a brilliant mathematical exposé of theoretical physics.

Moreover, because the author does not fully understand quantum physics, his explanations are even for scientists hard to follow, because they don't seem logical. For non-scientists, I cannot recommend this book either, since I don't think it will help you in any way: you probably won't understand the science and if you do understand what the author says, you understand the wrong thing.

http://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Tenth-Dimension-Thinking-About/dp/1425103804