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Eagleon · 07-05-2003, 10:37 AM

A little off-topic, but what the heck.

It bugs me when people call themselves experts on this, since no one has actually glimpsed the fourth, or fifth (whatever you want to call it) dimension, or seen ours from another. How do we know some force that can't exist in our dimensions doesn't make an actual hypercube, or anything else that we can imagine for that matter, impossible or changed from what we expect? For instance, gravity would be very different in the second dimension. The force would be radial instead of spherical, if it works at all. Can things be dense in the second dimension? Circles would settle like spheres on a plane, but since they're infinately thin, they are basically nothing.

What if our up was really skewed to the left? Would we even know it? Since everything would be tilted, including our senses, nothing would be as far as we're concerned. Probably the only way to see would be to look from another dimension, and that doesn't mean drawing pictures. The fact is, theory only gets you so far with things that no one can see at all.

07-05-2003, 10:37 AM	#14
Eagleon Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 147	A little off-topic, but what the heck. It bugs me when people call themselves experts on this, since no one has actually glimpsed the fourth, or fifth (whatever you want to call it) dimension, or seen ours from another. How do we know some force that can't exist in our dimensions doesn't make an actual hypercube, or anything else that we can imagine for that matter, impossible or changed from what we expect? For instance, gravity would be very different in the second dimension. The force would be radial instead of spherical, if it works at all. Can things be dense in the second dimension? Circles would settle like spheres on a plane, but since they're infinately thin, they are basically nothing. What if our up was really skewed to the left? Would we even know it? Since everything would be tilted, including our senses, nothing would be as far as we're concerned. Probably the only way to see would be to look from another dimension, and that doesn't mean drawing pictures. The fact is, theory only gets you so far with things that no one can see at all.