Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySBaY...eature=channel
How many dimensions can you visualize? I can only see the fourth dimension and below:(
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Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySBaY...eature=channel
How many dimensions can you visualize? I can only see the fourth dimension and below:(
third. a 3D projection of 4D really isn't accurate at all.
My mental image of the 4th dimension will not be accurate because I can not tell the future or know the exact past, but I can still visualize it inaccurately.
Ah now I've watched the first part of the video.
Interesting. It is like my topic on reality. Can you really argue that time is the 4th dimension though? Perhaps time itself is the 6th or 10th? Perhaps there are dimensions which influence us that we don't even know?
I don't understand why time is the fourth either to tell you the truth.
watched both. If you want to see more of my comments on this, check out the 2nd video, the newest comments.
It was ok up to the 4th dimension then it became speculation presented as fact, but that also defines a good part of science taught today.
Not necessarily speculation. a "dimension" is nothing but a word. I could effectively look at a chair and say "dimension" and not be wrong. You can define dimension as they have. However is that the best way?
Lol all very good points. I think to truly understand this one would need to do very complex math and have a degree in physics but, I think the videos are thought provoking and open your mind to the possobilities of other dimensions.
I want to see conrad's thoughts on this
Lol. Opinions are always nice, but really, I love how people always assume that a large vocabulary equal to a good understanding in everything. I don't know, Conrad's grasp on history is definitely impressive, but he doesn't seem like the quantum physics kinda guy.
yeah I thought about that, he is more of history analyzer from what I've read, but he might have some interesting thoughts.
Yes, DieForelle and Cheese7 are correct; I am a history analyzer [Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Renaissance, Early Modern Europe and Napoleonic periods], essayist, philosopher [favor Platonic and Schillerian philosophy the most], Latinist [an individual learning Classical Latin slowly as I am working on a book project.], and Romantic poet [Neo-Romantic theory as based on European Romanticism in the 1800's]. In essence, I am a humanist and not into the scientific field and its subcategories.
[I never took a physics class; instead of taking it in high school at the high school level I received a scholarship based on my competency in the AP world history examination and my history class grades with the result of attending a college level Greek and Roman literature course at Queens College when I was a high school junior.]
wait so you were allowed to bypass the system? ._.
lucky.
Know anything 'bout asian history particularly china and japan? I'm not totally ignorant on those.
I'll take a stab at this.....
The first three dimensions are PHYSICAL dimensions. They do not encompass the other aspects of reality, such as time and perception and energy transfer. I honestly don't know what the other dimensions should be defined as, and I could make some arguments both for and against the theories put forth in the videos, but ultimately, I would say there are infinite dimensions just as there are infinite ways to measure/define reality.
Visualizing higher dimensions is impossible, our minds can't comprehend it. We don't even know what the fourth dimension is so we can't imagine what it looks like.
They're saying that the fourth IS time. There is no more "physical" dimensions.
Though this is a commonly accepted theory, I haven't seen satisfactory proof. It is nevertheless very interesting though
For time to affect us it would have to be physical, but due to it being a higher dimensional force we have no way of really measuring it's physical features. Thats why they say time is not physical, because we can't measure it.
But you can't really see proof of higher dimensions though.
A "dimension" is a method of measurement. Nothing more, and nothing less. It gives us a way to quantify our environment. How high is that? How deep? How long? How wide? To envision the other dimensions, you need only think of the other ways we choose to define our world. How light/dark? How fast/slow? How far in the future/past? I believe that each of these measurements constitutes a dimension...and I do not subscribe to the theory that other dimensions are like parallel universes. I think you've seen too much sci-fi tv (Sliders, anyone?)
Exactly, so how could you then visualize a higher dimension?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheese7
The last type you mentioned that you don't believe in, is a parallel dimension, or as in the video, a "different dot" of the 7th dimension.
Precisely, but the entire premise of the video is that "higher" dimensions are these great unknown quantities. I say they aren't. I say they are simply not defined by a commonly-agreed-upon unit of measurement.
If you wanted to tell me about a piece of toast, you wouldn't tell me it was 4 inches wide by 4 1/2' high and 1/2' thick. You'd say it was golden brown and very warm and soft yet crunchy. Why would we not accept all of those things as "dimensions"? What is so mysterious about toast? (I am not going to get into the discussion about how simple bread could be transformed into mana with a simple hot coil and some butter. Some mysteries shall never be solved.)
The proof of other dimensions lies in a sub atomic particle called a graviton, a small unit of gravity. Gravity is the weakest of the four basic forces. This is because the graviton is a closed loop structure, according to string theory. This means that the graviton can move through to different dimensions, thus diluting its strength through the other dimensions. Atom smashers are currently working on measuring the "absence" of the graviton from our dimension.
Just found that and it helped me in understanding parallel universes/dimensions.
string theory explained in 2 minutes but rubber duckies:
http://discovermagazine.com/twominut...ctid=687029421
Wow this is very interesting! So gravity is the link to dimensional travel? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gerard0949
Love the string theory video. Informative and uses rubber ducks so it can't be wrong.
This is so very true.....Quote:
Originally Posted by gerard0949
I don't fully understand how you fold a dimension through another one.
it's a tesseract! (from the book a wrinkle in time)
It's like imagine a sheet of paper being 2D (no height). Now you fold it, and part of it's width and length becomes the height, and it becomes 3D.
i can imagine 5
Well the reason I can't see the 5th is I can't imagine all the possibilities for our time line. I can grasp the concept but to know all the possible out comes with infinite variables is something I can't see.
no.... i can see how that can be possible with the branches..... i can't grasp that concept either.
You can effectively say that all possibility contains if big bang did not happen, and contains a possiblity that the world does not have all the physical laws it does today. Therefore you can say that the 5th dimension, the possibilities is really a dot in the 7th dimension
according to their theory anyway.
exactly... therefore i cannot move higher than 5
Yeah, I really like Quantum Mechanics, and the string theory idea. Anyone had any lectures on String Theory before?
No, give us one please. Conrad can't give lectures, he can only analyze...so its your job now. :p