Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 1 of 2

Colton5 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - here's another thing you can query about. If you think this man and his videos are ishkabibble then why even protest against it. Wouldn't it be more stable for you to image that these videos don't exist, since you obviously don't believe anything he says. What is your profession and expertise, if i be some open minded to ask.

YamiPoyo Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - It makes sense to treat time as a dimension and ill agree with you on that one. However if your going to feed the trolls your going to lose credibility.

jonmaguire Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - To all you people talking shit about this video, two words: "Five stars" Great video.

latenightcreep18 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - this is mind bottling

chillli0000man Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - I've always thought of the fourth dimension to be mass and the fifth would be time. Since it is possible for a 1 and 2 dimensional object to achieve time by moving from one point to another on a line on a plane.

martin7475 Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - referind to the second dimension how can something exist if it has no height

10thdim Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - I think you could ask the same thing about the third dimension. How can something exist if it has no duration? Yes, we're 3D creatures, but without a way to change from state to state we would cease to exist. Because we're right in the middle of this process, it's hard for us to remember that we don't really exist in space, but rather in space-time.

martin7475 Says:

Nov 22, 2009 - i see but would that mean that 2d 'creatures' do actually have height like 3d creatures but can only see in 2d. because there is duration but we only exist at one part of it (in 3d) right?

10thdim Says:

Nov 22, 2009 - Our 2D creatures are a thought experiment, so by their definition they have no height. They would be the 2D version of a cartoon flipbook, and any organized pattern that existed in one 2D flipbook page and the next would start to have a duration. Same with us - our reality is not continuous, it's one 3D flipbook page after another, and those pages are each one planck unit apart. For more on this: Slices of Reality watch?v=nheaNclVe2Y The Long Undulating Snake watch?v=ZKNJmrdA0Fg Rob

ArmyTank00 Says:

Nov 22, 2009 - Carl Sagan's video of understanding the 4th dimension is excellent

willieofroanoke Says:

Nov 22, 2009 - Sagan is in the 4th dimension now...six feet under.

HustlinFlo Says:

Nov 22, 2009 - Wouldn't an amoeba be a 2D creature?

10thdim Says:

Nov 23, 2009 - An amoeba is still made out of 3D atoms and molecules. This may be why "flatlanders" can be a thought experiment only, it's difficult to imagine what our 2D creature would actually be made out of.

Neotrigunnerx Says:

Nov 23, 2009 - thank you thank you!!

Snyzeru Says:

Nov 23, 2009 - fake

ChuAnFanBoy Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - The best way to visualise time, as imagined by Einstein, is to think of it as "different states of the universe" the 4th dimension of space, if you will. This means that everything in the 3rd dimension(the one right "below" us, and is perhaps the one that we observe when we collapse the wave function of the electrons) is static. In fact, there would be no movement(as this changes the state of the universe) OR people, because without different states, the electrons or atoms cannot evolve

ChuAnFanBoy Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - According to Einstein, the faster we move, the more we gain mass because the more energy we gain. This is easy to accept if we were to realize that (positive) mass is simply energy that exerts a gravitational field by curving the space-(time) around itself. We can conclude then that the faster we move, the more space-(time) we curve around ourselves, thus gaining more mass.

ChuAnFanBoy Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - According to Einstein(again), the faster we move, the more time slows down. Well, I'm going to make a bold claim here, and say that this is where I believe Einstein and physicists erred. To me, "aging slower" or the radioactive clock decaying slower do NOT mean the same as time slowing down. To me, universal(or what perceive intuitively) time is eternal.

ChuAnFanBoy Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - Aging slower simply means that, aging slower. If we were to define time as I defined above, that is, the 4th dimension of space, or different state of the universe, then what happens, IMO, when someone or something moves fast is simply that the space around him curves so fast, such as while it seems like an eternity for someone moving slower to reach that destination state, it seems like one sec or less to the person moving very fast.

ChuAnFanBoy Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - Einstein's relativity can actually be understood in very simple terms. For example, let's say that we define where you are right now by 3-dimensional space and one dimension of "time," and call it "present location." Now let's say you stepped 10 m to your right, and define this event or state as "future location." You can see how if you were to move from "present location" at 1 m/s, you would experience(or take) more time than by moving at 5 m/s, to reach "future location."

ChuAnFanBoy Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - None of this contradicts Einstein's simultaneity experiment or Vertical Theory, however. By defining time as different states, we could still say that the person inside the train experiences the two states differently, from the observer outside of the train.

ChuAnFanBoy Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - Another way to look at Einstein's relativity is this. Let's assume that the Earth is the universe, and that the distance around the Earth is equal to the speed of light in one sec, we can see that anyone traveling close to the speed of light, would be able to get to the 299999999 km point(the point just right before the starting point) almost instantaneously, while anyone moving at 1 km/s would take a very long time.

ChuAnFanBoy Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - IMO, this shows us that the speed of light is either equal to the distance around the universe, or instantaneous, or even 0 in its "unobserved state"(makes sense if we were to assume that without-space-time, everything exists as a single-point, to someone in a higher dimension), because how does time or something appear to standstill, or in other words, doesn't change state? The only answer is that it goes around the universe, back to its original spot.

ChuAnFanBoy Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - This would fit well with Einstein's posit that speed through space + speed through time must = speed of light.

tarkuk Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - Wrap this one around your heads : when driving a car around a corner at high speeds, you feel right or left g-forces. If you turned yourself 90 deg right or left in the seat when taking that corner, it would feel like you're hitting the throttle or slamming on the brakes. Now if you are stopped and punched the accelerator driving in a straight line, you would still feel the g-forces. Think about this, you're not steering around any corners, because it's in the fourth direction, a curve in time.