Lord of Angmar, you are right in that relativity, as formulated by Einstein, is a classical theory and therefore directly conflicts with quantum mechanics.
Since then, physicists are working in the so-called G.U.T.s (Great Unification Theories) which try to explain all the forces in the universe with only one mathematical model. In order to do so, these theories require the combination of quantum mechanics and relativity. The Unification Theory (the M-theory) has not been formulated yet, but there are some aproximations to it. In all of them, the Universe requires more than four dimensions (I think the number of required dimensions is eleven).
Then the question is, if we can only notice four of these eleven dimensions, are there other 'universes' inside the Universe, in the other seven dimensions that we cannot notice?
One possible answer to this is that our four-dimensional universe is only one universe bubble (or universe membrane) inside the eleven-dimensional Universe. And that there exist other universe bubbles inside this 11-dimensional universe.
Stephen Hawking has written a new book where he explains this ('The Universe in a Nutshell') but in my opinion, this second book is even more difficult to understand than the Brief History of Time. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]
Linking this to Tolkien [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] what I suggested was that Ea is the eleven-dimensional Universe. At the beggining, the Undying Lands were inside our four-dimensional bubble. And that after the end of the Second Age, the Undying Lands are other universe bubble (but they are still part of Ea).
I hope that all this makes sense, at least to some of you [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
[ August 27, 2003: Message edited by: Amarie of the Vanyar ]
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