Sunday, January 1, 2012

Top 100 Tenth Dimension Blogs - 2011 Report

Other reports on this blog:
. April 08 . May 08 . June 08 . July 08 . August 08 .
. September 08 . October 08 . November 08 . December 08 .
. Top 100 - 2008 Report . End of 1st Quarter 09 . May 09 .
. June 09 . July 09 . August 09 . September 09 . October 09 .
. November 09 . December 09 . Top 100 - 2009 Report .
. January 10 . February 10 . March 10 . April 10 . May 10 .
. June 10 . July 10 . August 10 . September 10 . October 10 .
. November 10 . December 10 . Top 100 Entries of 2010 .
. January 11 . February 11 . March 11 . April 11 . May 11 .
. June 11 . July 11 . August 11 . September 11 . October 11 .
. November 11 . December 11 .

Here we are at the end of 2011, with a quick recap of another exciting year for this project. Some of the highlights:

  • The Imagining the Tenth Dimension website has now had over 7 million unique visitors!
  • My YouTube channel is currently at over 21,000 subscribers, and my videos have seen six million views. I'm currently at 403 uploaded videos.
  • I was interviewed by Ben Good for a piece he wrote for Scientific American: Has Science Gone Viral? 
  • I was interviewed on live talk shows by Anthony Peake (The Peake Experience) , Rea Wilkie (Your Life Now), and the team of Jake Kettle and Rob Wood (Truth Transmission). 
  • More of my videos were translated into Spanish, including Language and the Mind and Changing Your Brain. A German version of my original animation was also released. 
  • After receiving a number of requests to do so, I've gone back to the style of my original animation and am now releasing a series of videos which explain my approach to visualizing each dimension in more detail. The first in the series is Imagining the Second Dimension, and these videos will work all the way up to the ninth dimension over the next couple of months.
  • Just for fun, I released a series of videos for songs from my 1983 album Rob Bryanton - Alcohol and Other Drugs. This album, a collection of pop/rock songs featuring my good friends Jack Semple on guitar/bass and Cal Harle on drums, was quite innovative for its time: songs from the album received radio playlist airplay, but the album was recorded on four-track cassette. Check it out, I'm still very proud of this album.
  • As we saw in The 5th Dimensional Camera Project, a team of scientists at Oxford were introduced to my way of visualizing the extra dimensions by Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, and one of those scientists participated in a video explaining the fifth dimension as our "probability space", a concept I promote with this project.
  • It was also very exciting to see that in 2011 well-known physicists Leonard Susskind and Raphael Bousso published a proof equating the branching probabilistic outcomes of Everett's Many Worlds with the string theory multiverse. This is one of the central assumptions of my project, that the extra dimensions of string theory have a way of relating to Everett's Theory of the Universal Wavefunction. Here's a link to Sean Carroll's blog entry about the new proof, and here is a link to the paper as it was published at arxiv.org.
  • My company Talking Dog Studios continued to develop expertise in Augmented Reality, and created a set of kiosks which are on permanent display at the Mall of America, in an installation called Create Your Mayo Clinic Health Experience. Meanwhile, our Augmented Reality game ScavengAR Hunt, which can be played on iPhones and Android Phones, is continuing to develop a worldwide audience, and other smart phone demonstrations like our Halloween AR have also been popular.
  • O is for Omniverse, my followup book created in collaboration with visual artist Marilyn E. Robertson continues to be available at Omniverse.tv, and other Imagining the Tenth Dimension books, t-shirts, and DVDs are available at www.tenthdimension.com/store. Meanwhile, at www.tenthdimension.com/digital, various files are available for download, including high quality versions of the original animation, books in non-copy-protected pdf format, mp3s of various songs, and the audiobook version of Imagining the Tenth Dimension. The first two sections of the audiobook (the Preamble and the Introduction) are also posted on YouTube.
As we see up at the top here, I've been posting monthly reports with "top ten blogs of the month" and the latest top 26 blogs of all time for almost four years now, and at the end of 2008, 2009, and again at the end of 2010 I published a Top 100 Tenth Dimension list. I'd like to continue that tradition this year, so the list below is in the same format as the last two years, showing the month the blog entry originates from. Also, just for interest's sake, I've put a number at the end of each line indicating the position that blog entry held in our 2010 report. Thank you tenth dimension fans for your support!


1. Jumping Jesus (October 09) (1)
2. What's Around the Corner? (October 09) (2)
3. Mandelbulbs (December 09) (3)
4. The 5th-Dimensional Camera Project (May 10) (8)
5. Is Reality an Illusion? (April 10)
6. An Expanding 4D Sphere (August 09) (4)
7. Just Six Things: The I Ching (August 09) (5)
8. Gravity and Love (December 10)
9. Bees and the LHC (December 10)
10. Light Has No Speed (September 10) (10)
11. Vibrations and Fractals (April 10) (11)
12. Roger Ebert on Quantum Reincarnation (August 09) (6)
13. Time Travel Paradoxes (December 10)
14. 10-10-10 Look Before You Leap (October 10) (20)
15. Changing Your Brain (February 11)
16. Our Universe Within the Omniverse (April 10) (14)
17. The Pencil Visualization (June 11)
18. Magnets and Morality (April 10) (16)
19. How to Time Travel (December 09) (9)
20. Dancing on the Timeline (February 10) (13)
21. Creativity and the Quantum Universe (February 09) (7)
22. Simultaneous Inspiration (August 10) (23)
23. Complexity from Simplicity (September 10) (30)
24. Monkeys Love Metallica (January 10) (15)
25. Polls Archive 54 - Is Time Moving Faster? (March 10) (21)
26. What is Reality? (February 11)
27. Consciousness in Frames per Second (December 09) (17)
28. Language and the Mind (February 11)
29. Infinite Division (December 10)
30. Poll 44 - The Biocentric Universe Theory (September 09) (12)
31. Photons and Free Will (January 11)
32. Flow (January 10) (25)
33. The Quantum Mind (February 11)
34. Fourth Spatial Dimension 101 (April 10) (33)
35. Timelike Entanglement (January 11)
36. The Quantum Observer (February 11)
37. Three Becomes One (May 10) (37)
38. Entangled Neurons (May 10) (35)
39. You Are the Point (January 10) (29)
40. At Right Angles to Spacetime (January 11)
41. Psychedelics and Spacetime (November 10)
42. Poll 43 - Is the Multiverse Real? (August 09) (18)
43. Extra Dimensions and OBEs (November 10)
44. Alien Mathematics (July 09) (19)
45. Thinking Biggest (November 10)
46. Seeing Time, Feeling Colors, Tasting Light (September 09) (22)
47. Our Universe as a Dodecahedron (May 10) (47)
48. Living in a Simulation (January 11)
49. Entangled Awareness and OBEs (May 10) (49)
50. Poll 65 to 68 - Thinking Big (October 10) (66)
51. Cymatics, Gravity and Light (September 10) (68)
52. Constructive Interference and the Quantum Observer (September 10) (71)
53. When's a Knot Not a Knot (August 09) (24)
54. Neurons and Extra Dimensions (November 10)
55. The Quantum Solution to Time's Arrow (September 09) (26)
56. Evidence for Seeing the Future? (December 10)
57. Our Universe as a Point (May 10) (52)
58. Placebos Becoming More Effective? (January 10) (43)
59. Playing Games in Extra Dimensions (January 10) (45)
60. Is Spacetime Flat or Curved? (January 11)
61. Time is in the Mind (December 09) (40)
62. Beer and Miracles (September 09) (27)
63. Theatre of the Mind (May 10) (65)
64. Poll 46 - Big Bang an Illusion? (September 09) (32)
65. Time's Illusions (January 11)
66. Threes (December 10)
67. The Forest (April 10) (58)
68. Augmented Reality (January 09) (28)
69. The Big Bang is an Illusion (July 09) (31)
70. Love and Gravity (July 10) (82)
71. I'm You From the Future (February 10) (54)
72. Vibrations (April 10) (72)
73. Just Geometry (November 10)
74. Norway's "Reverse Deja Vu" (August 09) (34)
75. Dancing in the Omniverse (October 10)
76. Polls Archive 60 - Quantum and Macro a Continuum? (April 10) (73)
77. Holograms and Quanta (March 10) (67)
78. Extra-Dimensional Geometry (October 10)
79. Nothing is Real (January 10) (62)
80. Life is But a Dream (December 09) (53)
81. Strength of Gravity, Speed of Light (March 10) (81)
82. We Start (August 10) (94)
83. Global Coherence (October 10)
84. Alien Life and Sea Dragons (November 09) (46)
85. Poll 45 - Conscious Computers (September 09) (39)
86. Skhizein (January 10) (70)
87. Placebos and Biocentrism (September 10) (98)
88. Changing Reality (May 10) (90)
89. Poll 69 - Bees and Tangential Thinking (November 10)
90. Novelty (February 11)
91. The Fifth Dimension if Spooky (October 09) (44)
92. Dark Flow, Gravity and Love (September 10)
93. The Map and the Territory (August 09) (41)
94. Biosemiotics: Monkeys, Metallica and Music (September 10)
95. The Long Undulating Snake (July 09) (42)
96. ExpandAR - Augmented Reality (February 10) (89)
97. Flow and the Now (August 10)

98. The Statistical Universe (September 09) (48)
99. 3 Books That Could Change Your Life (February 10) (95)
100. Poll 61-64: Gravity and Free Will (June 10)

To everyone out there, I send you my best wishes and fond regards for the upcoming year. I particularly want to thank the continuing stream of people who write to me every day thanking me for changing the way they think about reality: I am grateful for your kind words of encouragement. Enjoy the journey in 2012!

Rob Bryanton

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