Although it was sold out I got a ticket at the last minute for Brian Green's lecture on "Hidden Realities" at the Schnitzer Concert Hall here in Portland. He created a great narrative for understanding three leading theories of "everything". Kudos to the Institute for Science, Engineering, & Public Policy for hosting the LPM lectures.
I started thinking about Agent Based Simulation, which I usually think of in 2D space when he showed a clip from his string theory series which aired on PBS several years ago. The bit where he talks about extra dimensions and how we might be able to imagine more than 3 dimensions. The example of a hidden dimension is a cable across the street where we are told that from far away we could just see two dimensions with a left or right movement. then they zoom in and say but if we were an ant we might also be able to walk all the way around the cable providing an extra dimension. He goes on to say how we might imagine a space time continuum with little strings at very fine scale allowing access to extra dimensions. Netlogo has a 3D version but I wonder if anyone is tinkering with adding extra dimension and what use this might possibly have for ABS?