Dimensional Reality Pt 3 - Getting Trippy!

 So we have talked about the first through third dimensions, where we live and move and have some control. We have talked about the 4th dimension of time (not the spatial dimension), where we experience it but have no ability to navigate. Let us move into some of the crazier and more theoretical aspects.

Now, if you are a fourth-dimensional being, you can move around in time. You can go to the beginning and then end at will. Think of the Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnagant. Think Dr. Who without a TARDIS. This is a state we can imagine, but of course don't experience. The ability to see all of time at once, like we see a room. They can see the beginning and end of time simultaneously and move to the areas of time like we would walk across a room. There is no "has been" or "will be", everything just is.

It would be simple to say that God exists in the 4th dimension, but it goes higher. The 5th dimension as time becomes more complicated. This is the timeline in Loki and the MCU. If you have seen Avengers Endgame, the Ancient One explains to Bruce Banner that a change creates a new timeline. A 5th-dimensional being would see and be able to move in the branches. They would see every option for every choice and how each one creates a new branch. If you turn left or right, a fourth-dimensional being would see the choice you will make; a fifth-dimensional being would see the reality if you choose both. This, of course, creates infinite timelines. Every possibility in the universe exists for the 5th-dimensional being.

A sixth-dimensional being would see every possibility in every universe, multiversal theory. This includes a universe with different physics, different realities, and different beings. This begins to move more into Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, where things that don't exist in our universe may exist in another universe.

Now, I don't see a reason that we need to move beyond the 5th dimension; 6th-10th dimensions exist in theory. If we look at God as a 5th-dimensional being, then most of the things we struggle with in theology begin to erode. Ideas like predestination and election seem to fade away with God being a 6th-dimensional being. The idea of how all things work for the good of God, or the idea of the best of all possible outcomes, is easy to embrace when we think about God as existing in the 6th dimension. In my next blog, I will explore this further.