A Visual Journey Through 11 Dimensions

Welcome to the multiverse

I haven’t yet seen much of the world. Most of my life has centered around one of the larger cities in the United States, glimpsing the Earth’s wilderness through scientific displays at museums and through an occasional trip to the aquarium. Although mesmerizing, these are nothing more than artificial creations hoping to approach the true grandeur of nature.

More recently I have found myself daydreaming of dives into the kelp forests of South Africa. Or of taking an expedition across the frozen slopes of the Arctic where reflective, dripping ice caves act as portals to a new world. I, like so many people, plan to make these ventures someday so that I can experience all of the Earth.

But then I imagine what life was like for humans hundreds and thousands of years ago. Born in the mountains or perhaps by the sea, they’d have no way to know of all the other landscapes that exist on our home planet. Boats had not yet been built, and neither had aircraft that could cut through the clouds in the divine day-lit skies. The location of their birth defined their lives. Those landscapes may have been rich and ever-changing throughout the seasons, but people living in summery poppy fields and bison meadows could never know what the world was like for families in the foggy, ethereal mountaintops of Asia.

People of the time knew only a piece of reality, just as scientists believe we know only a piece of reality today.