I finally saw Graham Linehan’s The IT Crowd recently, and really enjoyed it. I liked looking for the small nerdy details, like the picture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the wall behind Moss.

Visiting the relevant Wikipedia article about the Flying Spaghetti Monster you will see this lovely rendition by Niklas Jansson.

I came across FSM tonight when I googled 33 dimensions, and was surprised to note that there were at least two other references besides my own entry on the topic some time back. One is classic pseudo-science gobbledegook, the other was a throw away comment noting that the Flying Spaghetti Monster has 33 dimensions (although I find no other reference to back this up).

The tendency for people to believe that higher dimensions must be where our spiritual selves live (along with aliens and/or God) is kind of scary. Very few people have a workable understanding of higher dimensions even from a theoretical standpoint, and yet there’s no shortage willing to divy them up into "planes of existence". Often the word dimension is misused to refer to something more akin to a parallel universe.

Clearly we need a better understanding of the hypothesized eleven dimensions which constitute our universe, and hopefully the following table will help: