Originally posted by Flux8
Now, thinking on the subject of 'stargates', how we would percieve them, what the effects would be like, etc, I keep coming back to
hyperspace/higher dimensions... The idea of adding an extra axis ('w'+) to our 3 dimensional x, y, z axes. What would that look like? How would
we perceive it?
We see in 2D and intuitively extrapolate 3D (depth) from secondary effects such as forshortening, changes in size/shape in relation to other known
objects, shadows, etc. What would an object look like to us as it travelled along the 'w' axis? I would think it depends on what axis your viewing
the object from.
We live in 3d X/Y/Z.
I don't belive the 4th of 4d or X/Y/Z/W is time.
The best that I have heard it explained is to look down to a 2d world X/Y.
We can understand it.
In a 2D world you live within a piece of paper.
Pass a pencil threw it sharped tip first.
As it passed threw your 2d world you would only see what was passing threw the flat surface that you lived within.
In the beginning small dot would appear.
It would get bigger then remain stable for a while.
Then Zap it would be gone.
Do this youself with a peice of paper.
got a handle on it?
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Turn the pencle at a 45 degree angle to the papers serface.
Push it threw the page.
It would change significatly to the 2d person.
It would move threw the 2d world changing shape the entire time.
My god if you lived on a 4" by 6" file card.
You would think that it flew off into eternity as it ripped threw to the edge of your existence in just an instant!
But its still the same object.
In a 3d world i would think we might see a dot & it would grow larger.
If it was oddly shaped it might tear off in all sorts of directions.
If it were curvy it might tear around like a drunken Slayer.
If it had multilevel points.
God help us trying to make seance of it.
Try your 2d experiment with a opened pair if scissors.
2 small elongated points that get larger moveing closer & closer.
Then join to make 1 large elongated point.
Turn the scissors at a 45 degree angle to the paper & its impossible to explain passing it threw the 2d world.
Can we even imagin if a large 4d craft or object were to pass threw our 3d world.
(Cool... maybe the UFO stuff is just something that just fell off gods desktop.)
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By simply talking threw this experiment I have helped myself.
I have had trouble thinking threw some of the UFO stuff I have seen.
It might be a 4d object.
I hope it helps you as much as it did me.
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With out wax :-) Watcher