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coffee_addict Member (Idle past 504 days) Posts: 3645 From: Indianapolis, IN Joined: |
Please help me I'm going insane... and we are currently on vacation in Cancun, Mexico.
My brain can't wrap around the concept of a higher physical dimension than our 3 dimensional world. I'm about to lose it. Please help me!If you say the word "gullible" slowly, it sounds like oranges. Go ahead and try it.
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Diomedes Member Posts: 996 From: Central Florida, USA Joined:
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This video does a pretty decent job of explaining the concept:
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 762 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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If you’re in Cancun, just try more tequila.
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AnswersInGenitals Member (Idle past 178 days) Posts: 673 Joined: |
It’s generally believed that we three dimensional critters can’t visualize or get an intuitive insight (“wrap our heads around”) a four dimensional world (at least while sober). But the best way to approach an understanding might be to go in the opposite direction and visualize life in a two dimension world. There are several good books that do this, such as The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World by A. K. Dewdney. There is an earlier one, and maybe the best one whose name i remember as Mr. Thompson Visits Flatland or something like that. I can’t find any reference to that so I probably have the name wrong and perhaps someone on this blog has the right reference. By seeing how three dimensional beings view beings living in a two dimensional world, you might gain some insight into how a four dimension being might view things. The next step is to imagine living in a one dimensional world. You would only ever see two other beings, and one of them would be your mother. Social media would be very limited.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8557 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott
Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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ringo Member (Idle past 439 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Also The Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney
And our geese will blot out the sun.
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frako Member (Idle past 333 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
go from simple to complex, first you have one point, then you have 2 points limiting a line, then you have 4 lines limiting a square, then you have 4 squares limiting a cube, so the next up would be 4 cubes limiting a wtf.
or imagine flatland where everything is 2D, then you as a god from the 3d dimension send a ball trough it. what would a 2d creature see. First a spot growing in to a circle and the circle would become a spot and vanish. If a 4 d being would do that to us and send a 4d ball trough we would see a point come from nothing growing in to a ball then shrinking down to a point and vanishing. hope that helps. Christianity, One woman's lie about an affair that got seriously out of hand What are the Christians gonna do to me ..... Forgive me, good luck with that.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4443 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
then you have 4 squares limiting a cube Wouldn't that be 6 squares?What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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frako Member (Idle past 333 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
yea dit it of the top of my head, 6 squares for a cube 8 cubes for a wtf.
Christianity, One woman's lie about an affair that got seriously out of hand What are the Christians gonna do to me ..... Forgive me, good luck with that.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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tesseract
- xongsmith, 5.7d
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coffee_addict Member (Idle past 504 days) Posts: 3645 From: Indianapolis, IN Joined: |
Already read flatland.
If you say the word "gullible" slowly, it sounds like oranges. Go ahead and try it. |
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8557 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Gesundheit.
Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Dogmafood Member (Idle past 376 days) Posts: 1815 From: Ontario Canada Joined: |
8 cubes for a wtf. But a tesseract doesn't go anywhere that a cube hasn't already been. Dimensions are orthagonal to each other and after 3 there aren't any new ones left.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1052 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
Isn't the 4d equivalent a hypercube? Or is that something else?
ABE: I should have looked at Wikipedia before posting. A hypercube is the arbitrary n-dimensional version. Edited by caffeine, : No reason given.
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frako Member (Idle past 333 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: |
dont the string,m,superstring... theories predict 10 dimensions +time, we just cant see them because we live in a 4d's persons flatland.
Christianity, One woman's lie about an affair that got seriously out of hand What are the Christians gonna do to me ..... Forgive me, good luck with that.
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