I'm equally self-taught - i want to understand everything
  someday, from the tiniest to the largest, all of nature's
  machinery, how chemicals become life, etc. I love the concept of
  string theory - 11 dimensions mostly curled up inside of
  everything. It makes for beautiful pictures - and higher
  dimensions are just, well, awesome. Imagine a Time dimension
  that's higher: You know how you see a maz...e from up above it's
  easy to solve, but if you are the PENCIL line INSIDE the maze -
  from that perspective a maze is very time consuming and
  confusing. Imagine being able to see all of time at once, from
  beginning to end. Just like you can take your pencil from up
  above and pick a point anywhere inside the maze, you could do
  the same if you were 'above time". "