The 10 Dimensions (in easy-to-digest youtube form) - General

Into extreme extrapolation? Into high-level physics? Into brain-masochism? Into all 3 like me?! Have a look. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ca4miMMaCE[/media] The only real problems I have with it is that it doesn't explain why the 4th dimension is time (but just Google it and you can get a good explanation), and it doesn't go into why these ideas matter. If you want to know more, this is related to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory]String and Superstring theories[/url], the latter of which is sometimes called the "Theory of Everything" or M-theory... it also has 11 dimensions, so it's slightly different. This is just an overview. You will appreciate this much more if you have a good understanding of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_physics]Quantum Mechanics[/url], by the way. I know this is probably too educational a topic for most FP-kiddies, but someone should appreciate it.

The 4th dimension is what you see at the Shedd aquarium theatre

O.O

I have seen this before, it's pure mindfuck. Still I have to ask. Aren't there 11 dimensions?

:psypop:

This is very cool.

[QUOTE=rosthouse;16967295]I have seen this before, it's pure mindfuck. Still I have to ask. Aren't there 11 dimensions?[/QUOTE] What would the be the 11th dimension? All possible things are imagined and represented, what else is there to do?

I can't take this video seriously when they ignore organisms that don't have an anus.

[QUOTE=DeadWeight;16967407]What would the be the 11th dimension? All possible things are imagined and represented, what else is there to do?[/QUOTE] To live we only need 4 dimensions anyway, so you can ask why there are 6(or 7) more anyway. But from what I understood is, that everything in our 10 dimensions is projected on the 11th dimension. So it's like a huge backup of the universe. Ask Hawking :wink:

how the fuck do we even know we have more than 4 dimensions. [editline]06:09PM[/editline] oh right that's why it's a theory

Mind blown.

[QUOTE=Odellus;16967558]how the fuck do we even know we have more than 4 dimensions.[/QUOTE] It makes sense in the calculations. String theory and shit. From what I understood (and I'm gonna get corrected and shouted at) is, that the string theory needs 10 or 11 dimensions to connect gravity to quantum mechanics (quantum gravity).

I was lost by the 4th dimension

Whoever put this on youtube jacked it from some website. I saw it like 3 years ago and it wasn't on youtube. [editline]06:13PM[/editline] [url]http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php[/url]

I've seen this before but it is still incredibly awesome.

Ha I knew about string theory, yay me.

I watched the whole damn thing- :psyboom:

My head just exploded... but I'm proud of myself for following it with (limited) understanding

Mind == Blown

what

interesting stuff!

Groovy.

Whoa

That was really interesting.

Wow... That was... :aaaaa:

4th dimension being time is logical when you start graphing events against time - a timeline is a simple example of a single dimension, time, represented spacially, in a form you can understand, so in a way you could consider the universe to be a single four dimensional object with other multidimensional facets, which isn't goign through time at all. Or, like all dimensions one higher than ourselves, you could simply see the whole thing by looking at thin slices of it, a little bit at a time, which each slice being an instant thick - it's best to imagine how life would be if we lived on a sheet of paper. we could only see straight ahead, and to see something three dimensional, we'd need to scan across it, thus getting the whole image. the same applies for all high dimensions, and it doesn't take much to accept the same is true of time too. for more info, look up: "Light cones" the simple graphing of distance against time, and remember that you can keep going up in dimensions for it :D Higher dimensional mechanics are fun - for example, a four dimensional object could not fall - true story, has to move in at least two dimensions. Shit - note to self, watch video before commenting in future, this bitch is stealing my WORDS.

Baaad oversimplified unscientific video.

i remember watching this long ago it still fuck up my mind

Welcome to 2007, may I take your coat?

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;16968693]Baaad oversimplified unscientific video.[/QUOTE] Little harsh comment there, for what it tries to explain of demensional mechnics, it does an ok job, it's a good way of easing people into this, it only becomes complicated when you start to consider reasons better than: "It's simple logic" explain to me with maths why something in the 3rd dimension could not appreciate movement in the 5th dimension. If you can't, don't take a crack at basic teaching, you don't teach a six year old differential equations instantly then punch him in the face because he's confused.