The Fourth Dimension
A friend at work gave me a link to an interesting website today. We were having one of our usual conversations involving mostly things we know nothing about, but trying to sound very intelligent about it and pretending we were getting our points across. This time it was quantum physics and relativity (that’s what it is pretty much every time). Nothing really interesting came out of the conversation except that he apparently went and googled for some related topics and found this: The Tenth Dimension
Now, the tenth dimension is much farther than I’d ever considered. I usually stop at trying to convince people that the fourth dimension is not time, but some other in-conceivable something, because the third dimension is actually space time, and not just space. Not that I really have anything to back that statement up with, other than some vague memory of a book I read half of once a long time ago. Of course, if I didn’t have an opinion about it, I wouldn’t be writing this.
Anyways, this website very creatively explains all tenth dimensions ending climactically by stating that the tenth dimension is just another point (kind of poetic in a way if you like to get poetic about the universe, as I do) It throws in the multiverse theory in there around number six or something, and something even cooler than the multiverse which might explain the one plot hole in the book Timeline by Michael Crichton that I’ve been getting a lot of mileage off for the past few years. But it also states quite firmly that the fourth dimension is time, and that dissapoints me greatly. I mean, the whole idea of this study of dimensions is that you can’t really understand or even fathom a dimension higher up than you. A two dimensional being would never stand a chance of understanding us right? So how can we even have a word for time, we certainly don’t have a word for any of the other dimensions, as is obvious by the website author’s proliferous use of the words “point”, and “fold.” I just don’t think that if these extra dimensions really exist we would stand a chance at comprehending them, except ours and the ones below us.
In any case, I refuse to believe that the fourth dimension is time, since we can comprehend it, use it in our math effectively, and even travel through it (at least rudimentarily) If anyone cares to set me straight, feel free.