A quip from my college days:
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once. Space is what
keeps everything from happening to YOU.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On April 4, 2020 12:25:14 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
I see where people get confused. When we talk about dimensions, for most
people the “Physical” in “Physical Dimensions” is implied, just like when
Dad says, “Hand me the map”, what he really means is, “Hand me the plastic
coated street and highway map of the state of California that we just
purchased at the 7-11 10 minutes ago". We use these abbreviated forms of
implicit communication because being absolutely specific about aspect of
every object or idea we wish to convey would be impossible.
Put another way, a chemist might say, “when I heat water to 212 degrees
Farenheight, the water boils.” Implicit in that statement is the fact that
he is at sea level, that the water is pure, that he is on the planet earth,
that the air pressure is at or near a certain level, etc. Every such
statement contains the unspoken, “All other things being equal” clause we
always unconsciously take for granted.
So when physicists call Time (or anything else) another dimension, they are
pulling a kind of, "bait and switch”. They stop talking about “Physical”
dimensions, and begin talking about something else, but they never warn us
of this transition! Here’s why I do not believe there are any more
dimensions in the classical sense.
If I alter one of the dimensions of a 3D object, I do not affect the other
two dimensions. But if a alter time itself, I alter ALL of the other 3
dimensions. Time is more like a modifier of the physical dimensions. (One
could also argue that spacial dimension creates the effect of time.)
Think of it this way. If I could make time infinitely short, everything
would be reduced to an infinitely small point, because for there to be
anything else, an object could theoretically be at one point in space and
not another, implying that at another time it could be at another and not
the original point.
This is an effect bantied about when discussing traveling at near light
speeds. Not only does time compress (it is thought) but so does matter. The
implication is that if you could get everywhere infinitely fast you would
already be there and so there would be no time. And no space for that matter.
Bob S
On Apr 4, 2020, at 9:20 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
On 4/4/20 8:37 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
Once I caught on, I realized that Mathematics was really a kind of
numerical language for defining aspects of this 3 dimensional nature we
call The Universe.
You're still stuck in 3? Try 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ca4miMMaCE
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Mark Wieder
ahsoftw...@gmail.com<mailto:ahsoftw...@gmail.com>
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