Since the beginning of civilization, humans have sought to understand both the divine and our physical world. And as time has passed, 2 threads of thought have developed spirituality and science. But as science delves further into the unknown, deeper into the ‘reason’ behind what many take for granted, we find that science is finally mergingmerges with God, the absolute. As this merging occurs, we find that science is proving positive many of the concepts spokenwritten of in the world’s great scriptures. previously thought of as impossible.

In recent years, as the spiritual elevation of the earth has been increasing, scientists have spent more time researching the aspects of science which are closely aligned with the divine. And as a result, scientists have made some amazing discoveries, such as: one particle existing simultaneously in 2 places, the third eye, the aura, the power of prayer and the zero point field; which contains infinite energy.

It seems we have reached the Golden Age where Science and Spirituality walk together hand in hand. This scientific revolution is of great importance, because as humans become more scientifically advanced, they require great wisdom in order to use their technology for peaceful and constructive means. And with spiritual wisdom, combined with our scientific knowledge, we possess the tools to transform the world into a paradise for everyone to enjoy.

Have you ever wondered how the world and the universe worked? What kind of rules would God need to run both a huge universe with large masses and a small sub-atomic world at the same time? Today, we invite Research Physicist Dr. Peter Mensz to join us for part 4 on our series to help us understand how scientists are trying to help us to know the answer to these age-old questions. To achieve this, we need to understand how the science for understanding the laws of the universe have changed and evolved over time.

In our last show, Dr. Mensz talked about an initial discovery that would later become string theory. String theory speaks of other dimensions, similar to what is spoken of in mystical religious scriptures such as the Kabala. Today, the story of string theory gets more exciting, as two physicists are finally able to address the inconsistencies in string theory. Finally, it was able to attract the enthusiastic attention of the physics world. At the same time string theory has been applauded as a “theory of everything”, getting close to fulfilling Einstein’s dream of a unified theory of physics.

Thank you for joining us on Science and Spirituality today as we continue our quest for the theory of everything. By 1973 only a few young physicists were still exploring the equations of string theory. One of them was John Shwartz. For four years he tried to find explanations which would remove the anomalies in the theory. He tried to understand the meaning of the massless particles, which were predicted by string theory, and he almost gave up.

After several years of effort, he had an enlightening idea when he began to look at the equation from a new angle. He wondered if, perhaps, those different equations were describing gravity. If this were the case, it would mean that strings had to be much smaller than he thought before. They had to be hundred billions times a billion times smaller than the atom Stay tuned to Supreme Master Television. After these messages we will find out the importance of this particle with a mass of zero and what it is called.

Welcome back to Science and Spirituality. We were talking about the particle that is so tiny it is considered to have no mass whatsoever. This particle which seemed to disprove the validity of string theory, suddenly began to make sense to John Schwarz. Miraculously, this massless particle was understood to be a particle, which scientists had been searching to find for a very long time! This particle was called a graviton, and it is responsible for transmitting gravity on a subatomic level, in a similar way to elementary photons, which transmit the electro-magnetic interaction.

So Schwarz described how gravity works on the subatomic level, and sent his manuscript for publication. This time, the paper on string theory was accepted, but still, there was no reaction from the physics community whatsoever. Scientists were still not interested in strings. But John Schwarz got another enlightening glimpse, and he had to pursue his idea. He reasoned that if indeed, the strings described gravity, they must be the key to unify all four forces. These strings would fulfill Einstein’s dream of a unified theory of physics. He was joined in this quest by a younger scientist, Michael Green, who was willing to risk his scientific career for these “strings”.

These two scientists continued to work on removing the anomalies, which seemed to disprove the credibility of string theory as a physics model. One night, in 1984 they had both been working on the equations, which would make string theory consistent. Each scientist was working on some calculations of the same thing, but from a different angle. If they succeeded in coming to the same answer, the same number, then the anomalies which seemed to invalidate string theory would then be removed. John Swartz completed his calculations, and came up with the number 496. Michael Green continued on the same problem, and he also came up with 496! It was an incredible moment! String theory was now consistent!

I do remember, um… a particular moment when John Schwarz and I were talking at the blackboard, and working out these numbers which had to fit, and they just had to match exactly. I remember joking with John Schwarz at that moment, because there was thunder and lightning. There was a big mountain storm in Aspen at that moment, and I remember saying something like, you know, “We must be getting pretty close because the gods are trying to prevent us completing this calculation.” And indeed they did match.

The matching numbers meant that the theory is consistent, or free of anomalies, and had a mathematical depth to encompass all four fundamental forces. So we recognized, not only that the strings could describe gravity, but they could describe the other forces, so we spoke in terms of unification. And we saw it as a possibility of realizing the dream that Einstein had expressed in his later years of unifying the different forces in some deeper framework.

We felt great... that was an extraordinary moment, because we realized that no other theory had ever succeeded in doing that.

But by now, it’s like crying wolf, each time we had done something. I figured everyone’s going to be excited, and they weren’t. So I figured… well by now I didn’t expect much of a reaction. But this time, the reaction to the findings on string theory was explosive and enthusiastic. In less than a year the number of string theorists leapt from just a few to hundreds.

In this moment, when these two equations matched exactly, the theory of everything was born! But there is one essential aspect of string theory, which still sounds like science fiction or a sort of spiritual journey into higher realms. These complex equations require extra dimensions in space, which makes the theory even harder to prove.

We have always thought, for centuries, that there was only what we can see…. for centuries there was only what we can see, you know, this dimension, that one and another one. There was only three dimensions of space and one of time. And people who’ve said that there were extra dimensions of space have been labeled as, you know, crackpots or people who were bananas. Well, string theory really predicts it.

This concept that there are extra space dimensions is really a bizarre prediction. Now, the physicists need to better explain it or no one outside of the community of scientists will pay attention to it. String theory claims that the idea of extra dimensions may in fact be simpler, and more down to earth than we think. In fact, in 1919 Theodor Kaluza, a Polish mathematician, suggested that the universe might have more than the three spatial dimensions. For the scientific community, it was amazing that such an unknown scientist had the courage to challenge the obvious perception. This perception we have is that we live in three spatial dimensions – height, length, and width.

Similar to Einstein, who proposed in his theory of general relativity that gravity is more than the smooth warping of the four dimensional time-space, Kaluza proposed that electromagnetism can also cause warps and ripples. But for Kaluza’s idea to be plausible, he needed an additional fourth spatial dimension for this warping to occur. Einstein, liked the idea initially, although he held up the release of Kaluza’s paper for two years. He did finally agree to its publication. But where was this extra dimension? When we come back, we’ll find out! For unification of electromagnetism with gravity, the Polish physicist Kaluza needed a fourth spatial dimension. But if Theodor Kaluza was right, where is this extra dimension? What does it look like? And why do we not see it? Well, in 1926 the Swedish physicist Oskar Klein suggested that it can be related to how we view it.

For example, take a look at the cables supporting the traffic light. From this far away, we can’t see that they have any thickness. Each one looks like a one-dimensional line. But suppose we could explore one of these cables much closer. So close, as though you were an ant walking on the cable. Now, a second dimension, which wraps around the cable, clearly appears. From the your point of view as an ant, this cable is two-dimensional. You as an ant can move along the cable – which is the first dimension– or you could move around it – which is the second dimension. So we see that the dimensions can be long and unfurled, like the ones along the length of the cable. But they can also be tiny and curled up, in a circular direction that wraps around it.

Kaluza and Klein made this kind of suggestion, that the fabric of our space can have three long dimensions that we well know about, but also tiny dimensions. These tiny dimensions are believed to be curled-up extra dimensions, billions and billions of times smaller than a single atom, so we can not see them. But, they play an important role. In fact the mathematics of the early string theory as of 1984 demands a total of nine spatial dimensions! Not one extra dimension, as Kaluza had suggested, but six extra dimensions, twisted and curled into complex little shapes.

In fact, they might look something like this. Nowadays scientists talk about 10, not 9, spatial dimensions. These 10 dimensions are necessary in order to unify all four forces on both subatomic and large scale. At last! This was Einstein’s dream! A unified theory of everything. Here is Ed Witten, one of the brightest scientists of our time, creator of the so-called M-theory, whom some have called a successor of Albert Einstein.

If I take the theory as we have it now literally, I would conclude the extra dimensions really exist. They are part of nature. Well, now that we know that we live in a 10-dimensional universe, we can proceed to ask the next question: What are the consequences of living in such a multi-dimensional universe? And can we take advantage of it? And what about other realms and universes?

Join us next week and we’ll find out on Science and Spirituality, airing every Monday on Supreme Master Television. Up next is Words of Wisdom with Supreme Master Ching Hai’s lecture, so please stay tuned.