Thread:OBWforumsContentRevision/@comment-33155272-20190826222726/@comment-30654492-20190827030048

We've heard this before and truthfully the arguments aren't much different

' First off, we got String Theory Soup. It is a side item in a Wario game, which might not seem to be the most reliable, but hear me out.'

This is common flowery language, just because it's the name of the item doesn't mean that it directly relates to the concept that it's trying to convey. If Nintendo wanted to allude to higher dimensions, then they could have done so directly instead of making it vague

'You might think that it has nothing to do with string theory, saying that it is only the secrets of the universe and nothing else, but it is too damn literal. You have to think outside the box, think out into space and ride the waves. The secrets of the universe could mean everything that is to know, and there is also a fact that there are various little equations and strings inside the backgrounds of the first two worlds, one of which is named "Lineland".'

This definitely doesn't prove String Theory....At the VERY most we can say this is a reference to it, but nothing that suggests it overall applies to cosmology of the entire verse. It's possible to have a series reference a concept while it not being applicable in the slighest. This is evident with series such as Touhou or hell, really any series that mentions it but only as an abstract, not concrete thing in their cosmology

'The last sentence means everything: "Drink not, lest you learn more than what man was ever meant to know." Whatever this soup houses would blow your mind to pieces. The previous sentence states, "All the secrets of the universe are contained within this soup." Judging by that throwback, it's something great and revealing--a secret that man was never meant to know--about the universe. The name says it all.'

No. What makes this unusable is the fact that a narrator making an allusion to the idea doesn't mean it exists physically as a fundamental concept that governs the multiverse. At most this would prove String Theory exists as an abstract concept in the verse, which again, is a possibility as many verses reference concepts but in an abstract manner

'HYPERBOLE! HYPERBOLE! Pah-lease! Look at these [[1]]. Don't they look somewhat similar to the strings in the background of Merlee's mansion? They do. And, that's also taking onto the point that they use "jigen" instead of "sunpou" on the Japanese version! If you look up the word sunpou, you won't find M-Theory. If you look up jigen, you would.'

None of that proves they are spatial. The term Dimension in fiction doesn't equate to spatial dimensions inheritly and that has to be proven by the world itself.

I would also like to mention, when we use the word 次元，it can mean spatial dimension like 高次元，but it also can mean world/universe（世界）

give you a example

異次元（異次元世界）（different world，another world）