More Than We Can Imagine: The Science of Incomprehensible Beings
- Robert Rowan

- Apr 24, 2025
- 1 min read

For centuries, the idea of higher beings—gods, spirits, aliens—was dismissed by science as mythology. But what if the truth isn’t that they don’t exist… but that we’re simply not equipped to perceive them?
Enter string theory and the idea that we may live in an 11-dimensional reality, as suggested in versions of M-theory—a modern evolution of Einstein’s efforts to unify physics. We operate in 3 spatial dimensions plus time, but what if beings exist in 5, 6, or even 11 dimensions? Beings whose presence wouldn’t be visible, audible, or measurable in ways our senses or instruments can currently detect?
Think of it like this: a 2D creature living on a sheet of paper would have no concept of “above.” If a 3D human poked their finger through the page, the 2D being might perceive only a circle—and totally misinterpret what it is. Now imagine we’re the flatlanders.
Movies like Interstellar toy with this beautifully, hinting that the “ghost” communicating through time isn’t supernatural—it’s extra-dimensional, exploiting physics beyond our reach. What if that’s not fiction, but foreshadowing?
We’re on the edge of something big. With quantum physics unraveling causality, dark matter taunting us with its presence, and scientists seriously entertaining simulation theory and multiverses, it might not be long before we prove the existence of something so advanced, it might as well be divine.
The future of science may not debunk the idea of higher beings. It may finally decode it.

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