His logic, which reverses the calculations that Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber used to predict the screen dimensionsof the iPad Mini almost four months before it was officially announced.
It supposes that the universe contains 11 dimensions: the four familiar ones of time and space, plus seven that have shrivelled up and become inaccessible since the Big Bang.
The constants that physicists measure in their laboratories are only four-dimensional shadows of more fundamental entities that exist in 11 dimensions.
The first step was to figure out the dimensionsof the problem, which required analyzing a sample of Examiner stories and dividing them into four categories: very good or better (20 percent of the sample), good (30 percent), acceptable (20 percent) and poor (30 percent).