Other Worlds

Imagine a different universe somehow similiar to ours in basic structure. In this universe, somet hings make sense that don't make sense here. 2 + 3 may equal 5 at one location and some transcendental number at a different location. Maybe transendental numbers don't make sense over there because quadtratic functions don't exist. They have a completely different number system set up over there. What if the gasses there had properties of gasses and solids? For example, they could still somehow pass through eachother and comingle with atoms, but individual gasses retained their basic shapes. And solids had some strange solid liquid fusion property that we can talk about but cannot imagine. A different system of biology would be set up. Life would have changed differently because of all the different chemical processes. Maybe life would have a different meaning from the interpretaion of life that we have in this universe.

These are all wonderful things to imagine, but we soon find that our imagination can only go so far. We see that we are trying to use our own universe but imagining just those rules applied to our universe. We then see that these rules would affect more than what we initially estimated, and we find ourselves trying to impose rules on everything. In doing so, we have no universe to imaginem, and our attempt has failed. It's understandable that we failed, since we simply do not understand these new rules in the context of anything we have ever observed. A person who has never seen blue in his whole life will have no meaning of blue. A person who has been deaf his whole life will be unable to understand music as we do, or maybe not at all. Clearly, our imagination can't travel beyond our universe. It may be a sign that we shouldn't attempt to probe beyond our universe or try to establish a connection with another universe. This is obviously only if some new math and physics provide clear proof that other universes exist somehow. Maybe we should only seek to fully understand only our universe. It is most significantly a sign that our science and math and knowledge can only travel so far, and we are not infinitely scientifically skilled. Haha.