Imagining the Tenth Dimention

[Slayden]

Check it out, it's an awesome video:

http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

[chimpzy]

Very interesting.

It's a pretty good way to explain such a complex theoretical concept to laymen. I should show this to a friend, he'll love it.

[DDv]

Very interesting.

[ZevGun]

i saw this a while back, and had been recently thinking about it for some reason
thanks for linking it.

the only part of this i don't like is his curve analogy with the ant poofing around.
i understand what he's trying to say, i just don't like the way he says it. I don't poof when i walk out of my room (assuming parallel to door and floor to ceiling are 1 and 2, then perpendicular to door would be poofing in the 3rd)

[Slayden]

He was referring to the perspective of a flatlander. It's logical to us because we are in the 3rd dimension, but to a flatlander, we do seem to poof around.

[Daniel.]

Fate goes out the window.

[chimpzy]

Originally Posted by Slayden

He was referring to the perspective of a flatlander. It's logical to us because we are in the 3rd dimension, but to a flatlander, we do seem to poof around.

Similarly, let's assume that the 4th dimension is time, like in the video. Now imagine a being that moves in the 4th dimension, what we could call a time traveller. From our point of view, when this being moves into our current moment of time and then leaves, it seems to come in and out of existence too.

[pretmaker]

Originally Posted by chimpzy

Similarly, let's assume that the 4th dimension is time, like in the video. Now imagine a being that moves in the 4th dimension, what we could call a time traveller. From our point of view, when this being moves into our current moment of time and then leaves, it seems to come in and out of existence too.

You will not even notice it

Time is relative. Time can be stretched and shrunken relative easilly.


It may sound dirty but time is something we invented by looking at nature... So we are just some copy cats that think that time mathers allot... Why else would we have clocks in our living rooms and on our wrists.

[Slayden]

Originally Posted by pretmaker

Time is relative. Time can be stretched and shrunken relative easilly.

Not necessarily. Time is relative to space, this is true. But it takes quite a lot to try to bend time, for example a space pod that can travel the speed of light could conceivably travel to the future 60 years in but a few minutes. But how many of those space pods do you own? Then there is gravity. And cosmic string theory. And quantum singularities (black holes). Etcetera. Etcetera.

Originally Posted by chimpzy

Similarly, let's assume that the 4th dimension is time, like in the video. Now imagine a being that moves in the 4th dimension, what we could call a time traveller. From our point of view, when this being moves into our current moment of time and then leaves, it seems to come in and out of existence too.

Exactly. From our perspective, a 4th dimensional being would be able to travel back and forth through time, and if appearing in our reality (if we could see it), such a person would seem to fade in and out of existence like you said. Physics in the dimensions seem very bizarre when viewed from their respective perspectives. Ever see a hypercube? It's just a simple box in the fourth dimension.

[Sword]

Very interesting but I do have to say that my favorite part was the concept of multipule universes and parallels ones. So they may be a parallel universes where I could be rich or CEO of some company, dam why cant i be there