How a 4th Dimensional Being Sees Us
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None of that makes sense to me...
We can start with 2 dimensional being
We can start with 2 dimensional being
Aupmanyav
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I have not been able to follow the video because of my hearing problem and distaste for hearing aids, but I think more dimensions will affect the four-dimensional world.
The gist of the video is that to us a four dimensional object would seem to appear out of nowhere and disappear into nowhere. A fourth dimensional being would exhibit properties such as omniscience that would seem impossible from a three dimensional world construct?
Aupmanyav
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Yes, but in the same way you can look down from three dimensions and see the whole of a flat two dimensional circle, where a two dimensional being would only be able to see a line -- in the same way a four dimensional being could see your money inside your safe, or see you getting dressed in your bedroom, because his view would not be restricted by the three dimensional obstacle of the walls
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Ah, the peeping tom! God knows all; I have already been measured. 
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I remember reading the "Tao of Physics" circa 1975 and there the writer explains how for example a sphere(3D) becomes a circle(2D). So, the circle is the shadow of the sphere.
He then develops a similar mapping, where the 3D sphere is a shadow of a 4D sphere, the showing what a 4D would like to us.
I haven't looked at the book since then, but I was impressed.
I remember reading the "Tao of Physics" circa 1975 and there the writer explains how for example a sphere(3D) becomes a circle(2D). So, the circle is the shadow of the sphere.
He then develops a similar mapping, where the 3D sphere is a shadow of a 4D sphere, the showing what a 4D would like to us.
I haven't looked at the book since then, but I was impressed.
It could be a space alienAh, the peeping tom! God knows all; I have already been measured.
Exactly!
Aupmanyav
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I think I got something there. We are talking of spatial dimensions. Perhaps the fifth dimension may not be spatial. It can be something unrelated to space. It could be gravitation. I would weigh one tenth of what I weigh on earth if I were on moon. Gravity is due to mass.
Or it could be energy (aka mass). Think of what happens if there is no energy, no mass. The whole universe disappears in less than a blink of an eye.
There could be more things like that.
So that makes it at least five dimensions, mass; along with three spatial dimensions and time.
Perhaps that is what is meant by 'Ex-nihilo' or 'Pralaya', 'creation' and 'dissolution', 'folding' and 'unfolding'.
Good night. South Africa defeated a depleted Indian team in cricket. But we were already 2 up.
Or it could be energy (aka mass). Think of what happens if there is no energy, no mass. The whole universe disappears in less than a blink of an eye.
There could be more things like that.
So that makes it at least five dimensions, mass; along with three spatial dimensions and time.
Perhaps that is what is meant by 'Ex-nihilo' or 'Pralaya', 'creation' and 'dissolution', 'folding' and 'unfolding'.
Good night. South Africa defeated a depleted Indian team in cricket. But we were already 2 up.
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20/20 isn't cricket
Aupmanyav
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I just question what things look like in various dimensions...so much conjecture...science gets as loose as religion sometimes
It is possible to project three dimensions onto two. Every painting, photography, movie... does that. The math is understood. It can be applied to four dimensional objects, to project an image into three (or two, for our computer screens).
So math is pretty "together" when it comes to multiple dimensions.
But isn't that just the illusion of 3D created by light and shadow? It appears 3 dimensional looking straight at it, but not viewed from an angle or the edge,