And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.