Ten Dimensions

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 06-07-2006 11:41

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php

Fairly interesting

I have been trying to imagine these things since I was a child (like: "how would something that only thinks it exists in 2 dimensions view phenomenons we know to exist in 3 dimensions").

It's pretty cool, though I have some problems with it occasionally, even as a science-n00b. For instance, the introduction talks about there being 10 dimensions, +1 for time. Yet the 10 dimensions talked about in the introduction include time. So what happened to the 11th?

edit: A friend suggested that he did have 11 dimensions: 0 through 3, then 4 for time, and then 5 through 10.
But 0 doesn't seem like a dimension to me, since it could only be a dimension if points can be relative to eachother (ie in dimension 1) right?

Also, he assumes a lot...I'm sure there's some plausible reason to assume some of it (and it does explicitly state that it's based on the superstring theory; so obviously that has to be assumed a priori to this whole story), but he can't possibly just assume everything he says in the video, right?!

Oh well, just look at it and tell me what you think of it

Post by **DavidM** » 06-07-2006 12:04

i never wondered about it tbh

most make the mistake to think that dimensions are a axis thing (x/y/z), but it can be anything

like a color is 3 dimensional (or in cymk system its 4 dimensional)
its whatever you define it

sure, its hard to imagine another axis

that probably makes no sense

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 06-07-2006 12:06

So what should be the proper word then?

Spatial dimensions?

BunnyS · Post by **BunnyS** » 06-07-2006 13:03

Truth be known, I haven't really given the subject much thought myself, but looking at "Imagining the Tenth" atm .... pretty interesting

Mighty Midget · Post by **Mighty Midget** » 11-07-2006 15:26

About old fashion dimensions in space. I saw a documentary on super string theory and quantum theory. I didn't get all of it (the understatement of the millenium), but when they explained 10 dimensions in space, all they actually did (I think) was to describe 3d objects in 3d space. So basically they were back to start. Either I really don't get it, or someone got lost in fancy word games and called it science.

(Which reminds me of an old thought game of mine: If the universe is 'born' there has to be space to be 'born' in. It is said that the Big Kaboom created space, but then the blast had to take place in non-space, even at a sillyonth of a second before. Leads to:
There was space and the universe is an object in space. As an expanding object it cannot be infinite, because you need limits if the limits are moving (expansion). Leads to:
There might as well has been other Great Rumbles in other parts in space, each creating new universes. What would it be like if two universes expanded into each other?

Pretty useless thoughts, but sort of intrigueing)