Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Dimensions

There are 10 dimensions that we can imagine, if you don't count the zero dimension (a point) and the dimension of imagination. Here's a video explaining them if you are unfamiliar:
"Imagining the Tenth Dimension"
This is interesting all in itself, and it took me a while to digest it. But then I read a pretty inspiring short story that got me thinking about the dimensions (Thank you Kelli for showing me). To understand the rest of this blog, it'd be best to both watch the video and read the story. Here's the story:
"The Egg" by Andy Weir

First, I'd like to explain what I think of time. I think the dimension of time somewhat co-exists in each dimension. If you move a point (0D) to another point in space over a duration of time, the path it makes creates a line, making the first dimension. If you move the line (1D) to another location over a period of time, the path makes a 2 dimensional plane. Move the plane (2D), you get a 3D object. Move a 3D object, you get a 4D object, like the snake shown in the video. If a 4D object is moved over time, does the path make a 5D object? Now, a being in one dimension can only perceive the dimension above it in cross-sections. For example, the Flatlander (2D being) can only perceive a 3D object in 2D cross-sections over a period of of time. Just as we, being 3D beings can only perceive a 4D object in 3D cross-sections over time. Does this mean that "time"exists in every dimension rather being a dimension itself? Or is "time" perceived as the dimension above the being's current dimension?
In the story, God explains that time doesn't really exist where he's from. How did He and the deceased person have that conversation? According to this story, I inferred that God exists in the 4th dimension, and views the universe as a 4D object, an egg. This somewhat explains that time "doesn't exist" with him - at least not the person's version of time. God will have a conversation with all of the alternate endings of that one person. This suggests that God's version of time is the 5th dimension. He sees all of the alternate endings of that person as cross-sections over a period of "time." If this is true, that means that the 3rd dimensional person was made into a 4th dimensional being to talk to God.
Now. This this theory I'm going to explain may have many holes in it. It is based on my very basic knowledge of theoretical physics. It is based on the suggestion that beings exist in all dimensions, and they cannot see or communicate with a being in another dimension (yet). As far as we know, we are 3D beings who see the 4th dimension in cross-sections. Now, what if we were 4D beings like God in the story? We would see all of the alternate realities of ourselves (myself?) over time. But who says we aren't now? If, in fact, everyone is the same person, he (she?) is observing all of the possible endings of that life. But this still leaves the question of the universe's endings. Let's say for the sake of this theory that the universe is also "reincarnated" at the end of its life just like the human. That way, we (I?) can observe that too as if it is a cross section of the 5th dimension. Also, we could be observing the possible endings of the universe (and ourselves) right now. You may be thinking, "What? The universe couldn't have ended a second ago - nothing would have caused it." Remember that the ending possibilities of the universe are infinite. You can't say that couldn't have been one of them. The universe could end on a whim with no rhyme or reason (assuming the universe does end). But it doesn't really end, does it? It is reincarnated and starts again.
So what is the 3rd dimension? If we are 4D beings, that means everything we observe is a 4th dimensional object. To us, it would be like a 3D object (the snake in the video). As far as we know, atoms have been found to be made of subatomic particles (whose names escape me). But what are they made of? What if they were made of many tiny 4D objects? Say, the universe from the dimension below us. All of the infinite endings of the universe as 4D objects combined to make up our 4th dimensional universe.
Woah.
That means that those universes are made up of (again) their version of 4D objects from the dimension below them. All the way to infinity. The same can be said the other way. Our dimension is below an infinite number of dimensions above us. We are made of infinity, not determinate sizes of matter we call atoms. Could this be possible? Are there actually an infinite number of dimensions rather than 10? However, this theory all goes down the drain if a 4th dimensional object doesn't have the same properties to a 4th dimensional being as a 3rd dimensional object as observed by a 3rd dimensional being.

I hope you understood this. I have a headache. I'll let you decide where religion comes into this. I will keep my thoughts of that to myself.

Remember: Treat others the way you want to be treated... wait... Treat yourself the way you want to be treated. Yeah. That works.

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