Easy way to figure it out. Get an apple. Put three skewers through it to represent the traditional three axes or dimensions. Now stick another skewer through it along an angle different to the other three. There's your fourth dimension. Now stick another skewer through it at yet another angle. There's your fifth dimension. It's that easy.
true true. But not what iam aiming to convey.
I rather mean experiencing a 4th dimension as we do our current 3 dimensional existance. and what, on a universal scale, would these 4th dimensions be.
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it is a very interestin argument it has to be said
Ive always personally called time the 4th dimension quite simply because thats what Ive always done, but I guess it could be like dark matter or energy axes or somthing
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The 4th dimension is time... everyone knows that. The first three are height, width and depth, hence when our world is 3 dimensional, yet the 4th dimension is time, without which we'd all just be frozen statues in the nothingness.
Considering we've already worked out how to to genetically engineer ourselves to remove disease... The first baby to be designed without the breast cancer gene was born this week... and also considering that they recon by 2050 we'll have a fully functional positronic brain ala Star Treks Data... I'd say it pretty likely that we'll survive and prosper very well for a good long while to come in one state or another.
Bear wrote:Considering we've already worked out how to to genetically engineer ourselves to remove disease... The first baby to be designed without the breast cancer gene was born this week... and also considering that they recon by 2050 we'll have a fully functional positronic brain ala Star Treks Data... I'd say it pretty likely that we'll survive and prosper very well for a good long while to come in one state or another.
Yeah, the news was a bit sensational about that. But the baby wasn't really engineered or designed. Selecting and implanting embryos has been going on for years. All they did this time was test each embryo first for one faulty gene, and implant two that didn't have that fault. No engineering was done on those two embryos.
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The fact still remains though that we are at the level of technology where we can not only identify genes that cause things, but select from something that is nothing but a tiny bunch of cells, the ones without it and still have that child grow to full term with no defects...
Yeah. Kinda silly how people whine "Oh noes! We iz playing GAWDZ!". Screw that. It's excellent. We need to wipe out all those nasty defects. Better, stronger, smarter, faster.
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Bear wrote:Hence why time is the 4th dimension... without any of the other 3, we would also cease to exist as we are currently aware.
Acctually, the physicists I know, they all say that time is to be counted on a different scale, and is annoying to count as a dimention, as it only has one direction, forward.
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