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97CHAPTER 18 Time, an answer to space ASTRANGE THOUGHT MOVEMENT appeared in the corridors of fundamental research in the early twentieth century.As we added knowledge to our libraries, we also started adding spacedimensions to our universe, particularly when Klein and Kaluzaappeared, the fathers of the fourth spatial dimension. The idea ofadding overlaps of space to what we cannot explain is the successfulsyndrome of the prevailing materialism, because our eyes decided thatmatter takes up space. We therefore continue to see the world throughour eyes in the conceptions that we can work with. The parallel worldsof the string theory are typical of this intention to see the effects “some-where,” which our eyes could possibly conceive. The promoters ofsuperstrings argue that we do not feel the effects of these dimensionsbecause they are too small. In fact, that is because they do not exist.Small-scale experiments of Newtonian gravity (one tenth of a millime-ter) were conducted to estimate the presence of hidden dimensions.Newton is always right on this small scale. On the other hand, weclearly feel the effects of temporal dimensions via psychological time!After the dogma of finite light speed, after the dogma of a ST withthree space dimensions and one time dimension, we have come to astandstill in our search for space “elsewhere.” That is because our dic-tionary can only say “some-where” and not “some-when.” By insisting on dividing the whole into ever smaller parts we even- tually dissect the bigger whole. We collect spaces as if they wereobjects. Materialism obliges us to reserve a thing for every place and aplace for every thing. This propensity also comes from our difficulty toimagine time to be other than linear, going from the past to the future