God's Compensation/Lore/Mechanics

This section represents the best current understanding of the participating authors of the current state of real-world multi-dimensional theory and might touch on the related fields of string-theory and quantum mechanics. This section is 100% open to editing and corrections by anyone who has some knowledge of multi-dimensional theory for the sake of improved accuracy.

Pre-Einstein history

Before Albert Einstein made the ground-breaking discoveries that started the ball rolling toward our current understanding of multi-dimensional theory, there was already a lot of talk about the 4th dimension. What got the concept of the 4th dimension started in people's minds is something that is lost to history, but it most likely came out of the Pythagoreans, a cult in the 1500s that named themselves after the Pythagorean theorem and believed that mathematics was the answer to everything in the universe. It is easy to surmise that they might have gotten to talking about the 3 spatial dimensions of this world and got to obsessing over a theoretical 4th dimension and what it might mean.

Fast-forwarding to the 20th century, in the mid 1960s there were various new-age religions that picked up this old concept of a 4th dimension and took a liking to it. The understanding that these new-age religions had of real multi-dimensional theory was rather poor, and they confused it with parallel-universe theory. When a member of a new age religion talks about the 4th dimension, they usually do not understand it to be a physical geometrical angle that exists in theory, they think that the 4th dimension is a parallel 3 dimensional world where fantastic and wondrous things happen. It is stated by these new-agers that the 4th dimension is in physical contact with our 3rd dimension, and it is the realm in witch your soul dwells attached to your physical body by a thread.

While most of the talk about the soul and the realm of the mind were rejected by anyone who was not a member of some new-age religion, there were still several proper scientists at this time who mulled over the concept of a 4th dimension as it had entered into the popular lexicon as a subject of discussion. Rather than being a dimension of mind though, most scientists posed that time could be defined as the 4th dimension.