In which I make my own head hurt

I've always thought that quantum-like effects (entanglement, indeterminacy etc) were simply our inability to really visualize the additional dimensions properly. We often speak of them as being small or compressed or folded, when that simply is not the case. They appear small and compressed and folded from the vantage of the three dimensions we are able to understand, but they are literally as wide as the Universe - in that direction. The thing is, in those directions, Planck Length (the smallest possible distance you can move) is a more significant fraction of the radius of the Universe. Say, 1/2 or even 1/1. Or even a negative number (which explains attractive energy).

(Please realize this is just my way of trying to express what has been passed on to me by science writers. If you want to challenge my physics, wait for a post on simple levers or bouncing a ball, you will destroy me just as completely but less brain cells will be innocent bystanders)

Entanglement would then happen because they never left each other's sides, in that direction. Like a graph with two pencils, move one along the x axis, it never leaves it's connection to the other in the y axis. Entangled particles move in x,y,z, but never move in v or w. Until you hit them with detection energy. Then they move 1/2 of the Universe or so and are disentangled.

Visualizing the additional dimensions is difficult. Maybe impossible. We do what we can by replacing one of the other dimensions with the new one and pretending. It's possible with simple math, but it never ends up being a visualization... Here :

position_#(w, x, y, z)
position_A(2, 2, 2, 2) a thing is two feet away from you in the w, x, y, z, directions.
position_B(4, 2, 2, 2) the thing has moved further away in the w direction, but remains the same in the x, y and z directions.

To us, that appears like the object has stayed in the same place. What about the extra two feet of movement in the w direction? We can't see that. It's like it didn't happen and we don't know anyway to make it happen, or stop it from happening. We can describe it easily in simple arrays like this, but we can't visualise it. Which way did it go?

This kind of movement is why so many things seem weird. Like you may have heard that the Universe is "finite but unbounded" and that if you go far enough you will end up right back where you started. That's probably true, because while you were going in a straight line in the x, y, and z directions, you were curving around in the v and w directions.

It's like you are flying inside a donut, and the galaxies are like the little bubbles in the dough. As you fly, you think you are going straight because you stay the same distance from the outside of the part of the donut you are in. But after a while, you find yourself right back at the beginning. Your z seems to be straight, your x and y do not change values, but you have gone in a circle in the v and w directions. As far as you can see (the red ring) you are going straight, but you are following an unseen curve (purple ring).

Many people have tried many different types of visualizations, but we really can't see it. For instance, what if you take a right turn? You run out of donut! No, because unseen in this visualization are all the other donuts for all the other dimensions.

Mmmmm... donuts.....