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Stellar
Thats how I understand it. Movement is not a dimension, movement needs a dimension!
Kismit
I have allways been confused over why movement canot be classified as a seperate dimension . For instance if you have a statue you can use time to plot where it stands or to record how long it has stood for , you can measure it's hieght , it's width and even calculate its depth , but what happens if this object is given the opportunity to experience movement . It is then altered to a completely different structure in the same way a 2d picture can be made entirly something else by giving it another dimension and making it 3d.
Stellar
Im not entirely sure I understand you properly, but if I do, then it cant be classified as a dimension because it is XYZ and Time which is used to calculate its movement and new position. Its movement itsself has no bearing on its position. Saying "Its moving to the left at 2 m/s" is basically just using a grouping of all the other dimensions in a calculation, and isnt something new.
riotboy555
QUOTE(rossyair1 @ Dec 5 2004, 09:49 PM)
One time I saw an advertisement for a movie that was in 4-D. It was an R. L. Stine thing. I was wondering what it was.
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haha, i heard about that awhile back. the 4d part was that it was interactive. for example, if someone sneezed, you would feel water, and things of that nature.
Marien
basically, aren't "dimensions" plans, of different kinds, which can be travelled into ? seeking has a point.
is so, 5th dimension being "matter travelling through time" has no sense.

moreover, can the 3 first dimensions really be separated ? as far as we know, nothing of only 1 or 2 dimensions exists; and even if something doesn't move, it still has a volume. Therefore there would be only 2 known dimensions for now, time and space.
and Einstein said they're linked...

what's surprising is that we're constantly moving through time, even when doing nothing, whereas we can, or seem to be able to, not move in space. We can be immobile in space but not time.
and at the same time, some theories say that time travel is impossible... may time be a sort of "locked" dimension ? but then again if gravity can bend it, it's not...

btw, what's gravity ? seems like it's a concentration of time and space, where they get... "smaller". astronauts grow a bit taller, and you get slowerly (don't know if this word exists...) older in space (Langevin paradox, or twin paradox), where space/time is not bent.

...can't think of anything else...
don't know if this was helpful, just some thoughts which came to my mind after reading this topic... felt like writing tongue.gif
Stellar
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Therefore there would be only 2 known dimensions for now, time and space.
and Einstein said they're linked...


The thing is, space is comprised of the first 3 dimensions... x y and z
seeking
..which couple together creates "spacetime", and gravity effects the universe through this spacetime creating a type of ripple in the fabric
crazy_boy
QUOTE(rossyair1 @ Dec 5 2004, 09:49 PM)
One time I saw an advertisement for a movie that was in 4-D. It was an R. L. Stine thing. I was wondering what it was.
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when a movie is in 4d it just means you can feel things, but theyre budget its like if its raining in the movie a sprinkler will come on in the cinema
tendo
the fourth demension is just time. not time travel persay, just...time...we exist in space and time...xyz planes, and time...4 dimensions. this is all.
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String theory: wiki
Fourth diemnsion: geocities
The Raven
I picture seeing the all views of any object all at once. Such as seeing an entire sphere, all sides not visible from the current perspective in 3d. Hard to comprehend, but it makes sense.
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