Author Topic: The 4th dimension.  (Read 10586 times)

How the forget do you know?

Do you know everything there is about the universe?
Yes. Your milk is spoiled and you're out of bread.

We don't live in a dimension, a dimension is a measurement. Stop watching all those cartoons that fail at science.
We being 3-d creatures can actually see the world in 3-d only, although we are continually travelling in the fourth dimension(the time dimension). If somehow we can see this world in 4-d then we may then travel in time.

Time travel is logically impossible, as time was created by people to measure how far something goes within a certain period. You can't travel back through a tool. :/

Well from what I heard on a video about the 4th dimension, like we in the third dimension, we can only perceive things in a dimension lower than us. Which is why we can't draw 3-d objects, or view things in a 3-d realm. Our sight in itself is an illusion brought on by the magic of our brain....well here's the video to show ya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDaKzQNlMFw


We being 3-d creatures can actually see the world in 3-d only, although we are continually travelling in the fourth dimension(the time dimension). If somehow we can see this world in 4-d then we may then travel in time.

Eh, the fourth dimension is usually not referred to as time. Time is a dimension, but this should explain the difference:
Quote from: Wikipedia
This fourth spatial dimension is a concept distinct from the time dimension in spacetime, since time is functionally very different from any of the spatial dimensions; formally, spacetime is not an Euclidean space but a Minkowski space.

Time travel is logically impossible, as time was created by people to measure how far something goes within a certain period. You can't travel back through a tool. :/

You don't really understand general and special relativity. Time will pass at a slower rate relative to you than the rest of the universe the faster you are moving. Traveling at the speed of light, the universal speed limit, would theoretically stop time relative to you. So, if you were moving extremely fast, not quite the speed of light, you might age an hour but have the universe age a year around you. Space and time are intimately connected.

i got what i said off wikianswers

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Translation: Time seems to go faster when you fall asleep in the car.
I've heard it all. -_-

4th Dimensional Hypercube travel on the w axis along with xyz.

Eh, the fourth dimension is usually not referred to as time. Time is a dimension, but this should explain the difference:
You don't really understand general and special relativity. Time will pass at a slower rate relative to you than the rest of the universe the faster you are moving. Traveling at the speed of light, the universal speed limit, would theoretically stop time relative to you. So, if you were moving extremely fast, not quite the speed of light, you might age an hour but have the universe age a year around you. Space and time are intimately connected.

That really cleared it up for me :o
Thanks. Im still waiting for Reactor Worker or Muffinmix to post though

Translation: Time seems to go faster when you fall asleep in the car.
I've heard it all. -_-
really, your fighting with us even though you hevent even learned demensions yet. stfu


Tesseract, aka hypercube. Each of it's faces is a cube (although you cannot portray that in a 2d projection of a 3d projection of a 4d object)


You don't really understand general and special relativity. Time will pass at a slower rate relative to you than the rest of the universe the faster you are moving. Traveling at the speed of light, the universal speed limit, would theoretically stop time relative to you. So, if you were moving extremely fast, not quite the speed of light, you might age an hour but have the universe age a year around you. Space and time are intimately connected.
I'm agreeing with this as we had to perform calculations on this in Physics class. We made the assumption that there was a set of twins living on Earth and one of them was selected to go to Alpha Centauri in a vehicle that was propelled close to the speed of light. The trip took an estimated 50 years for the round trip and had to determine how old the space faring twin would be relative to his earth bound brother. The space faring twin returned to Earth 50 years later to see that his twin now looked like his Grandfather While he remained as youthful as ever.

Another example was actually done with two similar atomic clocks and an airplane that could travel past mach two. The clocks could keep track of time with a loss of one second every 10,000 years and record to  an infinitesimal frame of time. The one in the plane, upon the end of the test was fractionally fast compared to the other clock.


Tesseract, aka hypercube. Each of it's faces is a cube (although you cannot portray that in a 2d projection of a 3d projection of a 4d object)

Holy.... Wow that thing just blew my mind. :)