Sunday, December 7, 2008
I have a mission for all of you, if you choose to accept it
I found The Cosmos television series by Carl Sagan on iTunes and I bought a couple episodes. In the episode, "The Edge Of Forever", Sagan talks about the 4th dimension and how it relates to the finite, yet unbounded nature of the universe. It led me to think, "How can I comprehend the 4th dimension in a 3-dimensional world?" I have a vague concept of how to describe it, but I wanted to obtain the perception of the 4th dimension from my exceptionally intelligent peers and teachers. Also, if you can exercise your self-control, I would appreciate it if you didn't use this topic to tell me and everyone else how much you loathe Carl Sagan and his work. Some of us have a lot of respect for him.
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that sounds very interesting. I will look into that.
The fourth dimension is a permeable dimension to us but since only live in a dimension in which we can view with our sense only 3 dimension then we cannot follow it. Just like in String Theory there is 13 dimensions working but we cannot see them working obviously. The speed of light is too fast to comprehend for us we cannot view it with our naked eyes or any technology at our disposal. I'm not very good at expressing ideas and Idk if I answered anything for you that you may already know but I completely agree with you Vince I have great respect for Carl Sagan as well.
I've always thought of it as time, not a spacial dimension. I've got a headache from my perusals on this topic, and I'm still not sold on the idea of it being spacial, but it saved me from TMZ. Perhaps if we could isolate and freeze a span of time from one instance to the next and simultaneously move an object from one location in the smallest increment along all possible vector paths. If we could isolate that and see the energy of the object frozen along all those paths over the that single transition of instance to instance, then I could begin to imagine what the forth dimension is like. Anywho, I'm going to go have a cup of coffee. Thanks for the fun, Vince.
Ugh- Carl Sagan will haunt all of us for a good while, no doubt.
I still think you should read "A Wrinkle in Time"; it's a quick read and pretty interesting. I mention it because it relates to the topic of dimensions. Look into it. Madeleine L'Engle was one of my favorite authors when I was younger....
Anyways, if you have a Macbook, let me know. That way you can send the video to me via I.M. and I can watch it without having to waste my money. Maybe then I might actually be able to give you a real response to the question presented.
:)
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