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Chapter One relativity, the metrical properties of the continuum are intrinsic to the continuum, but a fifth dimension in which our normally sensed space- time is embedded can also be used to account for the curvature and In the space-time continuum one can say that all parts of the four- dimensional world exist simultaneously, in the sense of a mathematical formalism, and this would naturally lead to a complete collapse of the that this continuum is “real” in a physical sense, such that physical beings could move back and forth at will in and out of time as easily as changing direction in three-dimensional space. We, on the other hand, think that it is not only possible, but extremely likely based upon the data we have collected from fields of study that fall outside the range of quantum or classical mechanics: myth, history, and religion, for example. This great specialization and separation of knowledge into little boxes of awareness, or is that boxes of lack of awareness, serves its purpose in preventing us from seeing the whole picture, from finding data across many fields of study that can shine the light of understanding on the nature of reality. In relativity theory, time intervals between events are not completely fixed relative to moving systems or frames of reference. This has led to some speculation that there may also be analogies between some speculation that there may also be analogies between precognition and anomalies. However, “time dilation”, the contraction of time intervals between moving reference frames, is too small to also be between some may account for precognition and would still require any information transfer to travel faster than light, and the special theory of relativity, when narrowly interpreted, does not allow for physical travel backwards in time but relegates this concept to an imaginary when not backwards in imaginary concept to an Even though it is almost forbidden to question Einstein’s restriction on superluminal travel, Einstein did, at one point, propose to consider the hyperdimensional world as “real”. In 1938, with P. Bergmann, he wrote a paper entitled On a Generalization of Kaluza’s Theory of Electricity: : So far, two fairly simple and natural attempts to connect gravitation and electricity by a unitary field theory have been made, one by Weyl, the other by Kaluza. Furthermore, there have been some attempts to represent Kaluza’s theory formally so as to avoid the introduction of the fifth dimension of the physical continuum. The theory presented here differs from Kaluza’s in one essential point; we ascribe physical reality to the fifth dimension whereas in 386 properties of physical space. Philosophical ideas of causality. However, many scientists who work with these ideas do not think mathematical formalism.