I was mind fucked - Page 2

LittLeD

Sweden7973 Posts

January 30 2011 20:58 GMT

#21

This is pretty interesting and I was seriously hooked up on this for a while and layed down a lot of thought about it. Seen both videos, here's another one thats not maybe that mindblowing but puts some dimension (no pun intended) into it:
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Shadow of a Rotating Tesseract

I think we're talking about two kinds of higher dimensions here. The spatial dimensions and the 10-dimension theory that Rob shows in the first video. I find both to be perfectly reasonable and understandable but I like to think about spartial dimensions more.
Its funny imagining higher spartial dimensions, I've read quite a lot of articles about it and even tried drawing (Yeah drawing shadows of tesseracts is really fun :D) but to summarize the point, try thinking about us in the 3d world being 4d objects and flat papers being the 3D world (Like Sagan does) and continue from there on. If you think about it long enough, your brain will litterally hurt. You might come to such conclusions that there might exist 4 dimensional creaturs that we just can never come in contact with, or other 3d worlds that crosses in 4-dimensional space right next to us (Like how two 2d-worlds, papers, lying on top of each other never can contact one another) that we can never contact because we're stuck in 3D. And then we havnt even begun on 5D and 6D and so on.

Amazing stuff

SpoR

United States1542 Posts

January 30 2011 22:32 GMT

#22

On January 31 2011 05:39 vnlegend wrote:

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The 3d tesserect cube IS the shadow of the 4th dimensional tesserect in 3d space. The 2nd cube is the shadow.

yea but the shadow of the shadow in our 3d world is pretty mind fucking too

Vain

Netherlands1115 Posts

January 30 2011 22:59 GMT

#23

I know brains can't feel but always when i try to imagine more dimensions mine seems to hurt:\

Rinrun

Canada3509 Posts

January 30 2011 23:15 GMT

#24

Interesting stuff. Oh man, this stuff really is intriguing.

EDIT: Youtube is broken, its giving me Ke$ha's "we r who we r" as a recommended video... because I watched P2 of the vids. o.o

[Eternal]Phoenix

United States333 Posts

January 30 2011 23:20 GMT

#25

I was going to go into a massive explanation of why this is incorrect, but it's pretty hard to explain the basics of m-theory without writing a book on it.

I suggest everyone read up on m-theory and spacial geometry if you want to learn how this stuff actually works.

For now I'll just say that there's a definite and precise geometry to spacetime in 10 dimensions that consists of 4 infinite dimensions of spacetime and 6 finite dimensions of space curled up with our familiar 4 dimensions in a 10 dimensional manifold. The model in that video depicts no geometry to 10 dimensional spacetime and has no meaning in string theory, where the geometry of space determines the types of particles which can form.

It's a cute model but it's horrifically wrong. It makes sense which is why it appeals to people. It doesn't however hold any mathematical basis or significance.

viletomato

Canada277 Posts

January 30 2011 23:39 GMT

#26

On January 31 2011 08:20 [Eternal]Phoenix wrote:
I was going to go into a massive explanation of why this is incorrect, but it's pretty hard to explain the basics of m-theory without writing a book on it.

I suggest everyone read up on m-theory and spacial geometry if you want to learn how this stuff actually works.

For now I'll just say that there's a definite and precise geometry to spacetime in 10 dimensions that consists of 4 infinite dimensions of spacetime and 6 finite dimensions of space curled up with our familiar 4 dimensions in a 10 dimensional manifold. The model in that video depicts no geometry to 10 dimensional spacetime and has no meaning in string theory, where the geometry of space determines the types of particles which can form.

It's a cute model but it's horrifically wrong. It makes sense which is why it appeals to people. It doesn't however hold any mathematical basis or significance.

I concur, people tend to accept things they don't understand.