Hyperspace in Cyberspace

 Welcome here, to my little chunk of Hyperspace in Cyberspace.

Cyberspace is a whole new realm or domain of reality that humankind has only just started to explore and colonise.  So far, it has tended to be a theoretical place derived out of the mathematics of computing, and while increasingly more people spend increasingly more time there, and a lot of real money is traded there, it is still regarded as a "makebelieve" place.  This is changing.

Mathematically, it is possible to make a poetic analagy between the realm of complex numbers and cyberspace.  They are both "un"-real, or ontologically not of the physical universe.  While the numbers have never threatened to take on a more solid status and remain useful calculating tools as well as entertaining mathematicaly, cyberspace will become ever more like the real world.

We have seen the start of virtual money, Bitcoins.  Perhaps in the future it or many including it will make up the vast majority of the money supply.  Perhaps gold will ever retain its place as something "real" to hook the entire theoretical system onto.  It would need to be self regulating without the equivalent of a central bank, but when it grown large enough, emerging structures will fill that role, but we have no way of predicting what they might be.

"If a spatial extra dimension is of radius R, the invariant mass of such standing waves would be M_n = nh/Rc with n an integer, h being Planck's constant and c the speed of light."

Reading about hyperspace in WikiPedia led me to this astonishing formula in Kaluza-Klein, a wonderful name for a concept in itself.  I am astonished at the constants h/r which is the very tiny Planck's Constant, divided by the enormously large Speed of Light.  That is an exceedingly tiny number.  Also, the formula has the string of integers, so it can only have certain, discrete values, but that is to be expected as everything has "quantum levels" especially at that tiny size, though of course there are very large integers that would cancel out the other constant, so we are talking about phenomena that also exist at our dimensions and also, of course much larger, as is the spectrum of electro-magnetic waves.

I hope to retain my mental faculties as my physical body deteriorates, and end up, like most people eventually, as a withered relic on life support, little more than a brain in a bottle, but with the capacity to communicate in cyberspace, perhaps through electrodes in my brain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein