Since 2005, I've thought 3-D space was an artifact....
I ran across this recently, and the more I look at it, the more I think 'wow, maybe my idea is right; that we need to understand "space" in a completely different way (in order to achieve a theory of everything (TOE)) ;' and that this 3-D material universe is an illusion, an artifact derived from some 'other-dimensional' reality. More recently, I intuited that fractals needed to be integrated into our mathematical conceptions (expressions) of horizons, fields, linearity, and even whole numbers.
Quote:
"Dimensionality and Fractals" ( doi:10.1016/S0960-0779(02)00028-0 )
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 14, Issue 6, October 2002, Pages 831-838
B. G. Sidharth
Abstract
In this paper we first show that the usual three dimensionality of space, which is taken for granted, results from the spinorial behaviour of Fermions, which constitute the material content of the universe. It is shown that the resulting three dimensionality rests on two factors which have been hitherto ignored, viz., a Machian or holistic property and the stochastic underpinning of the universe itself.
However the dimensionality is scale dependent in the sense that at very large scales, or at very small scales, we encounter a different dimensionality, as indeed is borne out by observation and experiment. For example the large scale structures in the universe are cellular in nature on the one hand, and we encounter fractional charges and handedness at very small scales.
Finally it is shown how fractal dimensions can emerge and as an illustrative example it is shown how this could explain the magnetism of objects like Planets on the one hand and White Dwarf stars and Pulsars on the other.
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Wow:
Fractal Dimensions.
c = "speed" at which space manifests itself (in response to a change in the conformation of space elsewhere (the source or location of the change, ...and all else)).
Many different kind of space can overlay themselves.... [this meaningless phrase sure helps my brain 'see' these ideas]
Suddenly, particles and even atoms, cease to exist and can be understood as highly convoluted quantized conformations of space.
or....
Suddenly, particles and even atoms, cease to exist and can be understood as highly convoluted quantized conformations of other dimensionality (generating 3D-space?)
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...well, maybe not....

But what about all these different kinds of space?
If nothing more, can we make a list?
I'm familiar with (or at least heard of):
Minkowski
Riemann
Hausdorff
Euler
de Sitter
anti-de Sitter
Kahler
hyperKahler
Weyl-Kahler
p.s. apologies if this repeats another thread....