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Originally posted by 46ACE
Fortunately The mind is dimensionless and can explore concepts we can't physically touch.
"plenty of very smart people disagree with you : here's one explaining "4 dimensions"
Originally posted by 46ACE
Fortunately The mind is dimensionless and can explore concepts we can't physically touch.
"plenty of very smart people disagree with you :
Originally posted by PatrickGarrow17
I think the OP is referring to dimensions in terms of spiritual level and not physics. Two very different concepts.
Both are highly theoretical and not fact.
Originally posted by Agarta
As I understand it we live in the 4th dimension. One must be one higher to perceive the one before it. Ist = plane, 2nd = height and width, 3rd = Height, width, and depth. 4th = height, Width Depth and Time. As we live in the 4th we can not perceive the 4th to its entirety nor can we understand the 5th. That's how I understand it anyway.
Edit to add: In contrast because we live in the fourth we can not understand the complexities of existing in the 3rd dimension or lower due to having the understandings of the 4th.edit on 18-9-2012 by Agarta because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by FreedomCommander
reply to post by 46ACE
Has anyone done that?
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by FreedomCommander
I do not agree. There is one dimension. The dimension of the mind. Everything else is a manifest of that....
Originally posted by FreedomCommander
reply to post by 46ACE
Has anyone done that?
"Suppose we take you as an example. Your name is Rogers, is it not? Very well, Rogers, you are a space-time event having duration four ways. You are not quite six feet tall, you are about twenty inches wide and perhaps ten inches thick. In time, there stretches behind you more of this space-time event, reaching to, perhaps, 1905, of which we see a cross section here at right angles to the time axis, and as thick as the present. At the far end is a baby, smelling of sour milk and drooling its breakfast on its bib. At the other end lies, perhaps, an old man some place in the 1980s.
Attention, class. The two prongs of the caltrop painted blue represent our three-dimensional space of experience. The third prong painted yellow is the t-time we are used to. The red fourth prong simulates both Tau-time and Teh-time, the unexplored time dimensions necessary to Jake's theory. Sharpie, we have condensed six dimensions into four, then we either work by analogy into six
"Let me see," I said. "If I understood earlier, each dimension can be swapped for any other."
"By ninety-degree rotation, yes."
"Wouldn't that be the combinations taken four at a time out of a set of six? How many is that?"
"Fifteen," Zebbie answered.
"Goodness! Fifteen whole universes? And we use only one?"
"No, no, my darling! That would be ninety-degree rotations of one Euclidean universe. But our universe, or universes, has been known to be non-Euclidean at least since 1919. Or 1886 if you prefer. I stipulate that cosmology is an imperfect discipline, nevertheless, for considerations that I cannot state in nonmathematical terms, I was forced to assume a curved space of positive radius-- that is to say, a closed space. That makes the universes possibly accessible to use either by rotation or by translation this number." My husband rapidly wrote three sixes.
"Six sixty-six," I said wonderingly. "The Number of the Beast."
"Eh? Oh! The Revelation of Saint John the Divine. But I scrawled it sloppily. You took it that I wrote this: "666" But what I intended to write was this:
666 ~ Six raised to its sixth power, and the result in turn raised to its sixth power. That number is this:" 1.03144 + X 10~~ "--or written in full:"
10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056 "--or more than ten million sextillion universes in our group."
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by 46ACE
YA? What the HELL IS he talking about. Venus has a surface temp. that will melt lead!
NOT a good place to visit. Even the Damn Landers only last a short time before they fail.
Split Infinity
Originally posted by FreedomCommander
Don't believe me? Have you ever, in your lifetime, been in any of the other dimension? What does it look like? What's the taste like there? What are you feeling there?
"storytellers?"
Originally posted by bjarneorn
Originally posted by 46ACE
Fortunately The mind is dimensionless and can explore concepts we can't physically touch.
"plenty of very smart people disagree with you :
These men are story tellers, not realists ... they are "fantasy" writers. What is it, that is supposed to make them smart. That they can babble about their own imagination for hours, imagination that is based on fantasy and not reality. Or is the part, that they're babbling some foreign language you don't grasp, that make them sound smart?
Not that I believe in spirits, or the like, as in the OP's explanation. But I agree with the OP, there are only 3 dimensions.
The other dimensions, so many authors are talking about. Is not a dimension, merely state of energy. Perhaps, you could say that the word "dimension" can be used to describe it. But I disagree, that the state of energy of matter, and time, are dimensions in our concept of dimensions. In reality, it's our conceptual understanding of dimension, that is a problem here ... not that there are so many of them. For instance, distance is a function of energy ... to travel you need fuel, and energy ...the faster you wish to travel, the more energy you need. The photon, has a constant state of energy, therefore it's speed is close to being constant.
Distance is not a real thing, it's a sense ... just like smell, or sight. It's an interpretation of electric signals.
Early teaching and research
Over the next ten years Sagan held teaching and/or research posts at the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard University, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Stanford University. In 1970 he became director of Cornell University's Laboratory for Planetary Studies and David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Science. In addition to his academic appointments Sagan served as a consultant to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was closely associated with the unmanned (without astronauts onboard) space missions to Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
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