You must be aware that there are more than three dimensions. Scientists are currently researching the 4th dimension, which is currently believed to be time, otherwise known as the temporal dimension.
Do you think there are more dimensions? What exactly happens as you go up in dimensions? Or do you think that we just have three dimensions and nothing more. A look into the new millennium really, provided our species survives that long.
Here's an article if you're not particularly familiar with this topic:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensions#Spatial_dimensions[/url]
According to string theory, there's like 11 dimensions.
[QUOTE=lagunka;21846407]According to string theory, there's like 11 dimensions.[/QUOTE]
12 if you count my nose
[QUOTE=lagunka;21846407]According to string theory, there's like 11 dimensions.[/QUOTE]
You're thinking of Membrane Theory. Though I guess M-theory comes from string theory
Anyway, I saw a youtube video on the 10 theoretical dimensions, it doesn't adhere directly to string theory, but is pretty cool
[url]http://www.youtube.com/user/10thdim[/url]
Pretty cool channel, has all sorts of thought provoking things like that.
I have no depth perception. I'm a flatlander :saddowns:
I, myself, believe that there are 12 dimensions. As we go further up in dimensions, we start to loose self awareness and uniqueness, then "merge" so to speak with something. And no, this idea has no relation to Hinduism...
EDIT: 6 Dumbs... Jeez people it's just my theory calm down. Also, by further up in dimensions, I don't mean living and dying etc, I mean tearing a hole straight through our dimension.
There's only 4 dimensions in Minkowski space, the 4th being time. In extended theories, there are 5, 6, 10, 12, and so on.
In Euclidean space there are an infinite number of dimensions, all of the spatial.
The math works for Euclidean space, so I always like that, but the concept of time as a 4th dimension has an appeal too.
[QUOTE=Agoat;21846418]12 if you count my nose[/QUOTE]
You sir, win a free intertubes.
I find 4m*4m*6m around the right dimensions for me
[QUOTE=Kukuzi;21846469]You're thinking of Membrane Theory. Though I guess M-theory comes from string theory
Anyway, I saw a youtube video on the 10 theoretical dimensions, it doesn't adhere directly to string theory, but is pretty cool
[url]http://www.youtube.com/user/10thdim[/url]
Pretty cool channel, has all sorts of thought provoking things like that.[/QUOTE]
That video is horribly inaccurate fyi
String Theory is bullshit.
I accept that there may be infinitely many dimensions above mine, but being that my understanding is limited by my own dimension, I will never be able to comprehend them.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland[/url]
My thoughts are that I have no study in quantum mechanics and string theory so I can not make any accurate statement in regards to the nature of dimensions of the universe.
Humans cannot create. We can only change.
All the other dimensions are like silly fan fiction.
Try rotating a rocket engine so that it points towards the "down" of one of these extra dimensions
That's what you'll have to do to gain an impulse in that direction.
My uneducated guess is that there's infinitely many spatial dimensions, and that time itself isn't a dimension, it is just the phenomenon of change within those dimensions. Although classifying it as a fourth dimension works for many practical purposes by our standards..
[QUOTE=SecretGamer360;21846374]You must be aware that there are more than three dimensions. Scientists are currently researching the 4th dimension, which is currently believed to be time, otherwise known as the temporal dimension.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Tesseract.gif[/img]
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[QUOTE=Skippy!;21850750]My uneducated guess is that there's infinitely many spatial dimensions, and that time itself isn't a dimension, it is just the phenomenon of change within those dimensions. Although classifying it as a fourth dimension works for many practical purposes by our standards..[/QUOTE]
What standard do you hold dimensions to? It doesn't work QUITE the same as the other dimensions which is why we call it a temporal dimension as opposed to a spatial dimension, but time seems to act quite like its own dimension.
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[QUOTE=Aurora93;21850760][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Tesseract.gif[/img]
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That's a fourth spatial dimension, which would be referred to as the fifth dimension in physics terms.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;21850813]What standard do you hold dimensions to? It doesn't work QUITE the same as the other dimensions which is why we call it a temporal dimension as opposed to a spatial dimension, but time seems to act quite like its own dimension.[/QUOTE]
I guess what I'm saying is I wouldn't call time the fourth dimension because it doesn't seem like the 'next step up' from the first three. Perhaps it could be classified as a dimension, but under a different subcategory than the three spatial dimensions.
[QUOTE=Skippy!;21850838]I guess what I'm saying is I wouldn't call time the fourth dimension because it doesn't seem like the 'next step up' from the first three. Perhaps it could be classified as a dimension, but under a different subcategory than the three spatial dimensions.[/QUOTE]
Again, temporal dimension.
But you're right. There's no good reason it should be the 4th dimension and the 5th reverts back to increasing spatial dimensions. It's just based on when we discovered it.
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Still a dimension though
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;21850896]Again, temporal dimension.
But you're right. There's no good reason it should be the 4th dimension and the 5th reverts back to increasing spatial dimensions. It's just based on when we discovered it.
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Still a dimension though[/QUOTE]
Makes me think about the possibility of other temporal dimensions, too.
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I really hope that they never find the Higgs Bozon, so that all those string-theory physicists will finally just stuff it about all their damned dimensions.
[QUOTE=fenwick;21850968]I really hope that they never find the Higgs Bozon, so that all those string-theory physicists will finally just stuff it about all their damned dimensions.[/QUOTE]
Uh... why? If we DO find the Higgs Boson it will work towards validating string theory.
I don't understand people's resistances to ideas on the forefront of understanding the nature of reality, even if they are difficult to understand.
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Well actually no it will validate the Standard Model's predictions but the argument is the same really
Personally, i'm kinda open to extradimensionality. Although what we really need to know is the nature of the other dimensions, which directions they go off in, whether these "extra dimensions" are linked to time and/or alternate realities/parallel universes, or whether they're just leftover sets of directions with little practical application.
[url=http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_greene_on_string_theory.html]This TED talk explains string theory pretty well[/url].
[QUOTE=ironman17;21851256]Personally, i'm kinda open to extradimensionality. Although what we really need to know is the nature of the other dimensions, which directions they go off in, whether these "extra dimensions" are linked to time and/or alternate realities/parallel universes, or whether they're just leftover sets of directions with little practical application.[/QUOTE]
Which direction they go off in? They're all orthogonal to all other directions.
Time can be fun to study.
I prefer the philosopher Didactylos' point of view:
Things just happen, what the hell.
[QUOTE=Wonky;21850227]String Theory is bullshit.[/QUOTE]
Why's that?
[QUOTE=ironman17;21851256]Personally, i'm kinda open to extradimensionality. Although what we really need to know is the nature of the other dimensions[/QUOTE]
I'm not an expert on string theory but if I remember right, the "extra" dimensions are curled up really small. When we are looking at a distance, it's like they're not there. To help visualize this, imagine a hair. From a distance, it looks like a line but as we get closer we can see it has a third dimension to it.
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[QUOTE=noctune9;21851263][url=http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_greene_on_string_theory.html]This TED talk explains string theory pretty well[/url].[/QUOTE]
Agreed. People, check that link out!
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