MURFREESBORO — Is
the “fifth dimension” more than just a singing quintet?
The MTSU Science and Spirituality Group will explore that
question in a presentation titled “Conscious, the Paranormal and Higher
Dimensions” at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23, at Unity of Murfreesboro, 130 S. Cannon
Ave. in Murfreesboro.
Dr. Horace W. (Hap) Crater, a physics professor at the
University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) in Tullahoma, Tennessee, will be
the guest speaker. Crater will examine the possibility that the space-time
continuum is not limited to the four dimensions accepted by physicists and
cosmologists (length, width, height and time).
Crater proposes that a possible “fifth dimension” in the
universe “might provide a physical way of allowing our personal consciousness
to extend beyond the normal four dimensions,” said Dr. Gary Wulfsberg, MTSU
professor emeritus of chemistry.
“The existence of consciousness outside the normal
four-dimensional physical universe cannot now be rejected out of hand as
absolutely unverifiable by science,” Wulfsberg said.
Crater, who teaches several physics courses at UTSI, also
conducts research on theoretical physics. He earned his bachelor’s degree from
The College of William and Mary and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale
University.
The Science and Spirituality Group grew out of conversations
among MTSU professors about humanity’s place in the cosmos.
Since 2008, the group has brought accomplished speakers to
campus to engage students, faculty and the public at large in dialogue that
views both science and spirituality “as a valuable lens through which to
explore perennial questions of human interest,” according to http://library.mtsu.edu/spirituality/aboutus.php.
For more information, contact Wulfsberg at gary.wulfsberg@mtsu.edu or Unity of
Murfreesboro at 615-907-6033.
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