At 2:41 he quoted someone said that "the reason why electrons look the same is because there is only one electron in the universe". Is that some kind of a joke?
@jeffaquarius If you were smart enough to hear what his explanation is, it would make sense. He said: "there is only 1 electron with no dimensions, going back and forth in time to be "all" the electrons", which is not something us 4-D creatures can see with our eyes, but if you think about it.
What do you think about the idea that the hyperbolic description of spacetime as a Minkowski space is really revealing the additional degree of freedom afforded by an additional dimension, as our 4D curves through 5D?
i dont know if its so, certainly is alluring and simple. isn't a hyperbolic plane 2-dimensional. but do/can they even exist in reality the way they do in mathematics? i tend to think not (much like points don't actually exist due to planck length limitations). and is the degree of freedom really a degree of freedom? a plane remains a plane. the freedom only exists from the viewpoint of the higher(s) dimension. holographic or not, we're assuming even and flat euclidian dimensions here or not?
We're assuming that while you're confined to the topology of a space, you are unable to perceive the additional "bending" that is happening unless you go to the next dimension up. So Euclidean concepts make sense for our universe until we get out to the really big picture, where things like the curvature of spacetime become a factor.
what i couldn't add was that i do agree its a useful model because it seems like spacetime, at least, does turn out to be flat on a large scale. and it does suggest itself that time would be the fourth dimension imho. intriguing how 10 dimensions would self-evidently result if feynman is right.
your example for "visualizing" infinity introduces confusion. The first two examples of essentially counting by ones and twos an infinite number of times, does indeed go on forever. There is no limiting value. However, the third example (dividing by two) is very different. The result expected by repeating the process an infinite amound of times is not infinity. It is a limit statement whose limit is 0.
sorry dude but you actually can never reach zero by dividing, the places of the decimals will simply grow in places as you divide for ex... .01 .001 .0001 .000001 .00000001 ..000000000001 youll never actually reach absolute zero.. there is an infinite amount of places...
you don't need to "reach" zero for the limit to equal zero. If you divide something an infinite amount of times you are making the limit statement lim as a->infinity of n / (2^a) where n is any number. There IS a definite answer to this limit, and that is zero.
You should remember that the question is not the result of the division process but rather the number of divisions you would have to complete ... and this is as you statet a = infinity ... So the third example is just the same as the others! There is no need to describe any limit that you won't be able to reach. You CAN NOT reach 0 by dividing any number by 2!
perceive what can't be proven? how about.... black holes were predicted before they were observed. they were imagined and understood mathematically before astronomical observation.
Also, what evidence is there that Euclidean principles are applicable as oppose to something bizarre, like Parabolic Geometry or something equally unusual?
The theory presented here is very elaborate yet conceptually easy to understand. Unfortunately, there's little science behind this... just a combination of euclidean geometry and the most basic principles of string theory.
I've been talking about the point-line-plane postulate a lot lately, you can look that up in wikipedia.
Hadn't come across the term "Pythagorean Mysteries" before, though. I see that it's an ancient school of mysticism based on points, lines, planes and solids, and the number 10. Fascinating connection! Thanks for pointing it out.
don't want to sound too criticising but this seems to go against what you've said in other videos and seems to demonstrate that having infinite dimensions is more plausible than only ten. we may not be able to conceptualise past ten but that doesn't mean they're not there. also it appears as if you think of infinity in a numerical way, nothing wrong with that at all, however i think of it in more of a physical multi-dimensional state. also what you said about how a plane is one out infinite ...
... planes is why i think that a point approached is flawed, as you are not observing its infinite nature. by the way man please don't think im having a go, i mean all this in the nicest possible way and i have nothing against you, i think its great what you're doing, i'm trying to work out answers to the same questions as you, as most of us are. and thanks for the greta vids i couldn't have made it this far without them.
I don't think of infinity as being numerical, but I do think of each dimension as being a subset of additional ones. A one-dimensional line is infinite in both directions, but it's only a subset of a two-dimensional plane which is infinite in four directions, and so on with each additional dimension. I talk about this in entries like "Why Do We Need More Than 3 Dimensions"
Rob I have a question about dimensions and what many call ghosts. Is it possible that what we perceive as ghosts could be nothing more than beings on a higher dimensional plane interacting with our dimension? I have always been fascinated with the idea of higher dimensions and what could exist there.
That's a funny coincidence, the next two video blogs I'm releasing talk about ghosts: "Elvis and the Electrons" comes out on Dec. 12, and "Auras and Ghosts" comes out on Dec. 16. I've talked about these more "out there" ramifications of this integrated way of visualizing reality and the dimensions many times in my blog, and touched on the idea a few times in my book as well, but the subject hasn't really come up in my video versions of those blogs yet (only some of my text blogs become vlogs).
If you type "tenth dimension blog" into google, or if you click on the "to read along" link in my channel box up and to the right, you can search for "ghosts" in the blog and find the entries where this has come up before. You'll also see a number of polls there - one of the ones currently running asks if people have had experiences that led them to believe in a spirit world. Another that finished not long ago is still up there, it asks if people have ever seen an "aura". Check out the results!
Remarkable video, it makes fathoming ten dimensions rather accessible to those who only dabble in related fields. I myself still have trouble grappling with the twenty six dimensions in some string theories. The Universe is a remarkable thing - thanks for the video!
Absolutely fascinating. This is one of the best videos I have ever seen. A point is information? What is information and how is it kept track of. If you have a point, what is it that makes it have a certain coordinate?
Thanks! Here's a poem from my blog: You are a point of indeterminate size Moving through probability space Participating in a consensual reality Of combined choice, chance, and circumstance You are on a line which extends to infinity: Infinity in either direction And when you add all the possible values together For what that line could be All the positive values extending to infinity All the negative values extending to infinity It all balances out (positive x plus negative x equals zero)
And as I mention in the above vlogs, I think Douglas Hofstadter's wonderful "I Am a Strange Loop" provides some excellent insights into what it means to be an observer whose viewpoint is moving within the information that becomes our reality.
^^, ah, the middle way. My interpretation of how this connects to humanity is living a balance life of not indulging in sensual pleasure and not negating the basic needs leads to a life of harmony with everything around.
Gee thanks! Calculus in university while I was taking my music education degree is as far as I got formally, everything else I've picked up is from voracious reading of the popular literature on physics and cosmology from the recognized experts. But as you know, astrotometry, a number of the ways I'm blending these ideas together are not what is currently being taught: that's why I call my project "a new way of thinking about time and space".
the dimension of time, beeing a real dimension, is still different from the space-dimensions. the time-dimension is inverted and you can not just use a standard 4D Geometry on spacetime.
futhermore it is theoretically possible, that there are more than 3 non-inverted dimensions of space, but these could be very uniform, or tiny, and therefore would only be detectable on a very large or very small scale.
Yes, that's what I'm proposing. As I suggest in my song "The Unseen Eye", this gives us a way to visualize the other parallel universes (a la Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation) that are decoherent to our version of the universe but just as real within their own versions of spacetime - it's because they're "just around the corner", and could theoretically be accessed by an additional right angle to 4D spacetime.
At 2:41 he quoted someone said that "the reason why electrons look the same is because there is only one electron in the universe". Is that some kind of a joke?
jeffaquarius 2 years ago
@jeffaquarius If you were smart enough to hear what his explanation is, it would make sense. He said: "there is only 1 electron with no dimensions, going back and forth in time to be "all" the electrons", which is not something us 4-D creatures can see with our eyes, but if you think about it.
DocsDota 11 months ago
@4:30 only true for non-hyperbolic spaces innit
levlobotomy 2 years ago
What do you think about the idea that the hyperbolic description of spacetime as a Minkowski space is really revealing the additional degree of freedom afforded by an additional dimension, as our 4D curves through 5D?
10thdim 2 years ago
i dont know if its so, certainly is alluring and simple. isn't a hyperbolic plane 2-dimensional. but do/can they even exist in reality the way they do in mathematics? i tend to think not (much like points don't actually exist due to planck length limitations). and is the degree of freedom really a degree of freedom? a plane remains a plane. the freedom only exists from the viewpoint of the higher(s) dimension. holographic or not, we're assuming even and flat euclidian dimensions here or not?
levlobotomy 2 years ago
We're assuming that while you're confined to the topology of a space, you are unable to perceive the additional "bending" that is happening unless you go to the next dimension up. So Euclidean concepts make sense for our universe until we get out to the really big picture, where things like the curvature of spacetime become a factor.
10thdim 2 years ago
what i couldn't add was that i do agree its a useful model because it seems like spacetime, at least, does turn out to be flat on a large scale. and it does suggest itself that time would be the fourth dimension imho. intriguing how 10 dimensions would self-evidently result if feynman is right.
levlobotomy 2 years ago
This is truly fascinating. :)
It's arrogant for us the human race to assume that just because we cannot perceive or comprehend something, that it does not exist.
deezvids 2 years ago
your example for "visualizing" infinity introduces confusion. The first two examples of essentially counting by ones and twos an infinite number of times, does indeed go on forever. There is no limiting value. However, the third example (dividing by two) is very different. The result expected by repeating the process an infinite amound of times is not infinity. It is a limit statement whose limit is 0.
telamascope 2 years ago
sorry dude but you actually can never reach zero by dividing, the places of the decimals will simply grow in places as you divide for ex... .01 .001 .0001 .000001 .00000001 ..000000000001 youll never actually reach absolute zero.. there is an infinite amount of places...
jvargas714 2 years ago
you don't need to "reach" zero for the limit to equal zero. If you divide something an infinite amount of times you are making the limit statement lim as a->infinity of n / (2^a) where n is any number. There IS a definite answer to this limit, and that is zero.
telamascope 2 years ago 2
You should remember that the question is not the result of the division process but rather the number of divisions you would have to complete ... and this is as you statet a = infinity ... So the third example is just the same as the others! There is no need to describe any limit that you won't be able to reach. You CAN NOT reach 0 by dividing any number by 2!
017renegade 2 years ago
we cannot prove what we can not perceive
shune84 3 years ago 2
Can we perceive what can not be proven? Subjective or objective isn't it?
11thhourreprieve 2 years ago
perceive what can't be proven? how about.... black holes were predicted before they were observed. they were imagined and understood mathematically before astronomical observation.
Pierzynskied 2 years ago
Hmm, I could argue your point but it would involve being pedantic on meanings of words so I will concede that, in a sense, you're right.
11thhourreprieve 2 years ago
of course we can.
levlobotomy 2 years ago
the universe is infinite and how big is a point how long is a line time and dimension is a human perception
shune84 3 years ago
So, adding a 2rd point along a line is invalid?
Also, what evidence is there that Euclidean principles are applicable as oppose to something bizarre, like Parabolic Geometry or something equally unusual?
XxsolusxX 3 years ago
This.
The theory presented here is very elaborate yet conceptually easy to understand. Unfortunately, there's little science behind this... just a combination of euclidean geometry and the most basic principles of string theory.
telamascope 2 years ago
I got lost on "Hi."
thefailguy 3 years ago 8
Start with a point, two is a line.. isn't that from the Pythagoran mysteries?
swordofisis 3 years ago
I've been talking about the point-line-plane postulate a lot lately, you can look that up in wikipedia.
Hadn't come across the term "Pythagorean Mysteries" before, though. I see that it's an ancient school of mysticism based on points, lines, planes and solids, and the number 10. Fascinating connection! Thanks for pointing it out.
Rob
10thdim 3 years ago
no prob... one is a point, 2 is a line, 3 is a curve, 4 is a square... he goes all the way to 10, i think... its been a while since ive read it.
swordofisis 3 years ago
don't want to sound too criticising but this seems to go against what you've said in other videos and seems to demonstrate that having infinite dimensions is more plausible than only ten. we may not be able to conceptualise past ten but that doesn't mean they're not there. also it appears as if you think of infinity in a numerical way, nothing wrong with that at all, however i think of it in more of a physical multi-dimensional state. also what you said about how a plane is one out infinite ...
jeremyhillaryboobphd 3 years ago
... planes is why i think that a point approached is flawed, as you are not observing its infinite nature. by the way man please don't think im having a go, i mean all this in the nicest possible way and i have nothing against you, i think its great what you're doing, i'm trying to work out answers to the same questions as you, as most of us are. and thanks for the greta vids i couldn't have made it this far without them.
jeremyhillaryboobphd 3 years ago
Hey, I'm always up for a good discussion!
I don't think of infinity as being numerical, but I do think of each dimension as being a subset of additional ones. A one-dimensional line is infinite in both directions, but it's only a subset of a two-dimensional plane which is infinite in four directions, and so on with each additional dimension. I talk about this in entries like "Why Do We Need More Than 3 Dimensions"
watch?v=kzlRuygMGHY
and Time is a Direction
watch?v=LDajcGcKiAM
Thanks!
Rob
10thdim 3 years ago
Rob I have a question about dimensions and what many call ghosts. Is it possible that what we perceive as ghosts could be nothing more than beings on a higher dimensional plane interacting with our dimension? I have always been fascinated with the idea of higher dimensions and what could exist there.
scheppa2000 3 years ago
That's a funny coincidence, the next two video blogs I'm releasing talk about ghosts: "Elvis and the Electrons" comes out on Dec. 12, and "Auras and Ghosts" comes out on Dec. 16. I've talked about these more "out there" ramifications of this integrated way of visualizing reality and the dimensions many times in my blog, and touched on the idea a few times in my book as well, but the subject hasn't really come up in my video versions of those blogs yet (only some of my text blogs become vlogs).
10thdim 3 years ago
If you type "tenth dimension blog" into google, or if you click on the "to read along" link in my channel box up and to the right, you can search for "ghosts" in the blog and find the entries where this has come up before. You'll also see a number of polls there - one of the ones currently running asks if people have had experiences that led them to believe in a spirit world. Another that finished not long ago is still up there, it asks if people have ever seen an "aura". Check out the results!
10thdim 3 years ago
Electrons have no size and no dimension but they do have mass correct? And very interesting video.
ChewieFlakes 3 years ago
Remarkable video, it makes fathoming ten dimensions rather accessible to those who only dabble in related fields. I myself still have trouble grappling with the twenty six dimensions in some string theories. The Universe is a remarkable thing - thanks for the video!
theroguecellist 3 years ago
I love this video:)
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allhailme999 3 years ago
The point is all.
BrianTheMusicMan 3 years ago
Absolutely fascinating. This is one of the best videos I have ever seen. A point is information? What is information and how is it kept track of. If you have a point, what is it that makes it have a certain coordinate?
kanno41 3 years ago
10thdim 3 years ago
Symmetrical no matter where you are on the line
It all sums up as the point of indeterminate size
Everything fits together in the implicate order
Of the zero that we are headed towards:
And the zero from before we began.
Indeterminacy, all possible states, viewed as a singularity
The Omniverse
10thdim 3 years ago
Alternatively, here's some other vlogs:
watch?v=lfq5kKkA6pw
watch?v=tQMO1eyMRuM
watch?v=GbGAPR70tTY
And as I mention in the above vlogs, I think Douglas Hofstadter's wonderful "I Am a Strange Loop" provides some excellent insights into what it means to be an observer whose viewpoint is moving within the information that becomes our reality.
Thanks for your kind words!
Rob
10thdim 3 years ago
^^, ah, the middle way. My interpretation of how this connects to humanity is living a balance life of not indulging in sensual pleasure and not negating the basic needs leads to a life of harmony with everything around.
DoctorYoon 3 years ago
Wow. Excellent. Have you studied math formally, or are you self-taught?
5vd, favd & listed. You know your fine lecture probably glazed 90% of your viewers. It's great what you're doing with integrating the entertainment.
astrotometry 3 years ago
Gee thanks! Calculus in university while I was taking my music education degree is as far as I got formally, everything else I've picked up is from voracious reading of the popular literature on physics and cosmology from the recognized experts. But as you know, astrotometry, a number of the ways I'm blending these ideas together are not what is currently being taught: that's why I call my project "a new way of thinking about time and space".
Thanks for writing!
Rob
10thdim 3 years ago
the dimension of time, beeing a real dimension, is still different from the space-dimensions. the time-dimension is inverted and you can not just use a standard 4D Geometry on spacetime.
futhermore it is theoretically possible, that there are more than 3 non-inverted dimensions of space, but these could be very uniform, or tiny, and therefore would only be detectable on a very large or very small scale.
Meddlmoe 3 years ago
spatial dimensions are at 90° angles to each other
hyperspace(time)(4d5d6d) are therefore
"outside" the 3d range of perception
"around a corner eyes cant see or point to"
elix655321 3 years ago
Yes, that's what I'm proposing. As I suggest in my song "The Unseen Eye", this gives us a way to visualize the other parallel universes (a la Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation) that are decoherent to our version of the universe but just as real within their own versions of spacetime - it's because they're "just around the corner", and could theoretically be accessed by an additional right angle to 4D spacetime.
Music video for "The Unseen Eye":
watch?v=oK29fTLXEf0
Thanks for writing!
Rob
10thdim 3 years ago