… taken with "four dimensions of spacetime consist of events that are not absolutely defined spatially and temporally, but rather are known relative to the motion of an observe" (Dimensions - Wikipedia), underscores the application of further dimensions to our concept of a fully described 'Space'. In order to accurately and completely represent the actuality and behaviour of an 'event' or point one may well have to consider the effect of additional fields. However, I cannot mount any sort of argument couched in mathematics or physics terms, through lack of understanding in these fields. I can however object to claims that such extra 'dimensions' have existential merit, by appealing to a failure-to-date to demonstrate their existence by any repeatable test methodology. This does not however in anyway argue against the propagation and exploration of such concepts as String Theory, M Theory or any other proposition … including "The spirit world". Insofar as I am aware, there does not however exist any functionally efficient proposal for any such 'spirit world dimension' of three dimensional space (in the classical absolute sense), or of the demonstrably relativistic Space-Time continuum.Tamminen wrote:Space and time get intertwined, and we have the concept of space-time, which is the result of applying and extending our original, subjective time to the material world.
My Non-Paradoxical Explanation of Time and Space
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The timeline is the fourth dimension of space because the line is one dimension greater than the point, and the point is representing our entire 3-D world. We have reduced our 3-D Universe into a point, i.e. we have reduced three dimensions to one, so that we can now represent the 4th dimension of space visually, and understand its relation to the 3 dimensions of space which we know and experience. And we can also now easily visualize how the 4th dimension is embedded in our perception of time. As the point (our entire Universe) moves across the timeline (moves through time), we experience things happening, i.e. a 'before, now, and after'. So the fourth dimension of space is ordinarily perceived by us as chronological time. If there was no fourth dimension, i.e. no line for our Universe to move on, i.e. no time, then nothing would happen, the point would remain fixed, and our entire Universe would be static and passive - no movement, no time. Everything would be still and motionless, forever.Sandis36 wrote:This is not clear, what you mean by the fifth dimension here, and the 6. So it is also not clear, how the timeline is the 4. dimension. You just state this, with explanations that are not good and understandable. The time is not similar as the space- dimensions. Only the fact that the space of the universe contains everything can be a space- dimension. Rationally, not exactly, strictly logically. Of course everything depends of the fitting of the model to the evidence, we can make models infinitely. But the explanation of the evidence also depends of the model.
The 5th and 6th dimensions are easily visualized by just imagining the timeline as being curved, as being able to go left, right, up, or down. The point moving through 3-D space now gives us 6 dimensions of space-time. The 3 dimensions of space the point is moving through are 3 greater than the point, which represents the 1st 3 dimensions of space. Therefore, the 3 dimensions of space the point is travelling through represent the 4th, 5th, and 6th dimensions of space (or 'space-time' if you want to stress that 'space' and 'time' are really one, and only differentiated based on the perceiver).
This model gives us a Universe where not only are all moments of time eternally co-existing, but also all moments of the past, present, and future, which were not realized by our Universe, but could have been. And this is the basis for the modern so called 'multiverse' model.
Do you get it now?
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We cannot experience any more than three since we are only three dimensional objects ourselves. And so the three
spatial dimensions we are therefore composed of extend across the entirety of the universe. For there are no others
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