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> On Jul 7, 2019, at 4:07 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I've just been teaching my youngest about the 4th - nth dimensions. Time is > not the 4th but the 1st temporal dimension. If the 3 spatial dimensions are > Length, height and width then the 4th is depth, ie, going inwards and > outwards as the easiest way to picture it (but not truly representative). > That being the case, how would you describe the 5th spacial dimension. > That'll twist your noggin if it's not something you've thought of before :) > > Sean > > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 21:55, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Heh! That reminds me, I knew a British professor once who used the >> illustration that a two dimensional being, confronted with a line would >> perceive it as impassible. He then went on to explain how it might be that >> a 3 dimensional being, when needing to see into the future might perceive >> it as impossible, whereas to a 4th dimensional being, that is not bound by >> time, would not. >> >> Bob S >> >> >>> On Jun 17, 2019, at 13:24 , Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode < >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> Sure. I do it all the time and everybody knows how 1D I am. >>> >>> Some random thoughts: >>> >>> A Turing machine might be considered 1D. It can draw x,y. >>> >>> This past month, I was working in very high dimensions. I was not able >> to visualize that very well and used dimension reduction techniques such as >> PCA, UMAP and t-SNE to help. I would guess the 1D being might have to do >> something similar for "visualization". Maybe. >>> >>> Lewis and Clark went on a path or route, 1D, and took measurements that >> allowed them to create a 2D map. That is, the space of the 1D path was >> assumed to bend in a 2D space. >>> >>> The floor of my lab looks 2D to me, but I have latitude and longitude >> marked for the center. That labelling assumes a curving into 3D. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
