Greatest Misconception 11: The Fourth Dimension is Time

[darkbunglex]

Umm up to the tenth dimension you can call the 4th dimension as time. Each dimension is constructed on the last. Oh you are going into what i am just saying.. Whoops

[EnigmaHood]

@darkbunglex No you can't call the 4th dimension time if there are more than 3 spacial dimensions which string theory suggests.

[TheErraticTheory]

What if ghost and aliens are really beings from a 4 dimensional realm, and those whom hear voices can hear them? Not that I believe in all that. Hell, I'm very skeptical of the reality of time. All our perceptions of it are based on our observation of change and motion. If anything I believe it to be a emergent property of space.

[amiyaiitkgp]

The dimension of time doesn't behave exactly like of space. It differs by a minus sign. So it's incorrect to say that time is 4th dimension. The correct way is to say time is another dimension (which may be 4th or 11th based on what theory you are studying) which is very similar (though not same) to spatial dimensions...

[msgsgt]

I really like your series of vides of misconceptions.  I would really like to here more of this guy explain thing. He does a FANTASTIC JOB (meaning the lamen could easily understand) He does sound like "Smith" from the first Matrix when he starts explaining.

[gluebubble]

I'm vaguely ashamed that Carl Sagan had to sit me down and explain this with colorful shapes..

[sk1972]

I find what I read @ "unveiled secrets and messages of light" very interesting to say the least.

[LapisChimera]

whats a dimension?

[Conneisseur2]

video hasnt completely convinced me that time isnt the 4th dimension, but i do get the point.

[phookadude]

Actually your wrong the 4th dimesion is time. To identify the location of an object you need 4 dimensions, x,y,z and when in time the object is there. That's what a dimension is. The flatlanders need 3 dimensions x,y and when. A hypercube would need 4 dimensions to exsist in and another to have a moment in.

The time dimension is also like the space dimensions, we just see it as being differnt because we are used to thinking spacially.

[EnigmaHood]

@phookadude No, the 4th dimension is a spacial dimension. Time is not a spacial dimension. Time is a dimension that is added on to the end of all spacial dimensions. According to string theory, If the universe has multiple dimensions, then the 4th dimension is just one of the many spacial dimensions that exist in the universe. Time is a separate dimension added on at the end.

[phookadude]

@EnigmaHood Time is simply how we percive the "extra" dimension as being differnt it's not all that different.

It's called a dimension because it's literally a point that needs to be measured in order to locate anything. If you see an airplaine a mile north, a mile west and a mile up you still have to say it's 2:00pm to actually locate the plane. That is what a dimension is, height, width, depth and when.

The bit from cosmos is nice but it has nothing to do with your point.

[EnigmaHood]

@phookadude You have to realize first that a spacial dimension is a specific type of dimension that is distinct from the time dimension. Ask yourself this. What if there's 5 spacial dimensions? Then you have height, width, depth, d4, d5, time. Saying there's 5 spacial dimensions implies there's actually 6 total dimensions, with time just being tagged on at the end. People just said time is the 4th dimension because we originally only believed there to be 3 spacial dimensions.

[phookadude]

@EnigmaHood Now your just kinds getting lame. Time is the 4th. Any dimensions postulated by the string hypothesis are actually above those, so they are #5 ect...

The point is that there isn't actually much difference between "spacial" dimensions and the time dimesion.

The reason we know that time is #4 is because of relativistic effects happening close to the speed of light occuring because if we move in any direction in space we are moving at right angles to the time dimension.

[EnigmaHood]

@phookadude Well you're kinds getting stupid. No matter how many times you say it, time is not a spacial dimension. Therefore to say it's the 4th dimension is disingenuous because according to string theory, our universe has numerous spacial dimensions, but time is separate from that. Time dilation does not prove time is the 4th dimension, nor are we moving at right angles to time, that's just some nonsense you pulled out of your ass.

[Shift4chizzle]

@EnigmaHood hey i was just thinking about this and the flat land analogy, isnt it kinda incorrect? i agree that 4D is probably not time but he said in flatland the square was able to see 4 dots, but if it was truly 2D the square wouldnt be able to see the dots from where he landed cos they would need depth to see that, the only way they could look is up right?

[EnigmaHood]

@Shift4chizzle Don't read that much into it, it's just an analogy to help us understand more than 3 spacial dimensions. Like any analogy, it's not perfect, but it's helpful for layman understanding.

[JacksterLark]

@phookadude I disagree

1. The definition of a dimension is something that you can move through. So, since you move through time then time is a dimension. Not quite, this does not mean that everything that you can move through is a dimension.

2. Time is not spatial and all dimensions are

3. If you could time travel then you would be going through the 4th dimension which is not possible

4. If time is the 4th dimension then since all dimensions have time in them it doesn't really make any sense.

[jbperez808]

@phookadude Kurt Vonnegut seems to agree with you. Excerpt from Slaughterhouse 5: "The Tralfamadorians, who can see in four dimensions, have already seen every instant of their lives. They say they cannot choose to change anything about their fates, but can choose to concentrate upon any moment in their lives, and Billy becomes convinced of the veracity of their theories."

[tomyferland1234]

wow thats amazing ! 0_o

[DrLynch2009]

Didnt Mr. Mxyzptlk live in 5 dimension?

[chobit389]

Carl Sagan just made Cubes sexy.

[heyimanh]

mindblown

[TonyEvans96]

How can the apple scoop the square from below, if the square exists in a reality in which there is neither an above, or a below?

I am now confused!

[CrashSable]

Why number them? Why say up/down is the third? It could just as easily be the first or the seventeenth (assuming that many exist). It's a pointless exercise to define what order they go in and the fact is time can be defined as a dimension, just not in every theory. So just let people say it's number 4, it does no harm.

[stevenlindner]

awsome tesserects lol

[IvyCrossNoir]

So the ability to expand and contract are the properties of the 4th dimension?

[DaMostEnigmatic]

does he play the voice of ernie from sesame street, sounds like he could.

[giampibramante]

time is the fourth dimension.. and time is a direction in the fourth dimension. so yes the fourth dimension is spacial and yes the fourth dimension is time. however we cant perceive time as a direction cause we are in a 3 dimensional world.

[EnigmaHood]

@giampibramante No it's not. Time is a dimension, but it does not exist in the 4th spacial dimension. According to String theory there may be as many as 10 or 12 dimensions but that does not mean time is lingering somewhere in the 4th spacial dimension. Time is just tagged on at the end. X number of spacial dimensions + an extra dimension of time.

[giampibramante]

@EnigmaHood no not really.. you dont know that for sure. it makes sense for time to be a SPACIAL dimension. in the first dimension, with only up and down, left and right is experienced, but not in a way that you can travel through it. In the second dimension, depth is experienced in the same way, its still there, just not in a direction. in the third dimension, time is experienced in the exact same way, you notice it, just not as a direction, you can't travel through it.. therefore its time

[EnigmaHood]

@giampibramante No current theory accepts time as a spacial dimension. Your little guesswork is just speculation without scientific support.

[giampibramante]

@EnigmaHood Hows this for scientific support faggot?

/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuA

[EnigmaHood]

@giampibramante Lol wow. How's this for scientific support? Blocked.

[giampibramante]

@EnigmaHood idk if thats how the official theory works, i just kinda thought about it..

[EnigmaHood]

@giampibramante Yes that is how String Theory works, it posits more than 3 spacial dimensions and says that these objects called strings may exist in these dimensions that are normally imperceptible to our senses.

[Pazma1]

I love how he talks.

[mindprism]

How could flatlanders see one another at all, for you cannot see an edge that has no height, anymore than I can see a line.

If I walk up to a plane, edgewise, in a 3d world, or any world, none of its dimensions "face me" therefore it does not exist in my world.

[jhonny1392]

Part 3.- The bad thing is this blog is written in Spanish, cos I'm a Chilean guy (not all good things are written in english only !) but through an online translator you will have no trouble understanding its meaning. I can assure you it will be worth the effort. Greetings from Chile, and we'll be in touch very soon.

[jhonny1392]

Part 2.- subject in very depth for several years and I'm pretty sure I've found the answer. But I´m not found it in maths or string theory (which is not proved yet) but just thinking logically and without mistakes (which is not an easy thing at all, but I'm very good in this area).

Over the past months at the request of a friend who knows my theory, I have been working on a blog which once completed can give you the link right here. So you can for yourself, evaluate my work. (see 3).

[jhonny1392]

Answering your final asking, I have one: You and Mr. Sagan are totally wrong about this matter and believe me, I really know what I'm saying.

I can see you have several vids about "Misconceptions" and in my country we have a saying for that: The more you want to encompass, the less you can hold tight. Besides, for your voice I can see you are a young people and that makes me wonder how deep you has study this subject in particular or others. But, I do have studied this (see Part 2.-)

[atheer2002]

outstanding clip from the great sagan..

[slide2k1]

that one guy sounds like agent smith from the matrix

[AsuranSet]

@slide2k1 I think you mean that Agent Smith sounds like Carl Sagan =)

[thehunted21432]

Wow. He had to dumb it down and I still don't get it.

[Zerker8]

Another idea: planet-cracking (as elaborated on in the Dead Space series)!

[EnigmaHood]

@Zerker8 I love Dead Space, but what's the misconception? :P

[Swoll1231]

mans a genius

[Chipg06]

the 4th is time...

[JacksterLark]

@Chipg06 look. in the first place dimensions are spatial and time is not. time and space are different. Second, since time exists in the first 3 dimensions than that means that the 4th dimension exists in other dimensions so it would be "special" which doesn't make any sense. also if you time traveled, which is possible because time is different in space' than you would go through another dimension which is impossible.

[VersusARCH]

Boys think only about even dimensions (width, time) when considering girls, and girls think about odd dimensions (length, height) when considering boys. And also the numbers ($).

[bednarjozef]

We are still considering time as dimension.There is nothing as" the 4th dimension ","the 3th dimension "...So technically statement "The Fourth Dimension is Time"is not flase unless you do not imply with this, that time is a special dimension which has special place among dimensions between three spacial dimensions and all others.

[henf5671]

Perhaps time is merely an illusion and a shadow from hyperspace.

[twoodward1969]

Because of Einstein, we often call time the fourth dimension. Special relativity shows that time behaves surprisingly like the three spatial dimensions.

[TSR1989FF]

Interesting Video, definitely a very original method to describe the considerable complexities of our Universe (then again i have seen Geology Explained with Cake's & Fresh Pastrys ; )

To my knowlege the Middle East is Geologically refered to as "Aisa Minor" on most Maps.

As a Brit i can confurm we do overall use the term Asian to refer to those from India / Pakistan / Ceylon / Bangladesh / Burma or States in that immediate area, rather than to those from Aisa Minor / Indo-China / Japan etc

[TSR1989FF]

@declaration963 Ah i see, So God is an Apple is he??

(Laugh).

[TheOilyOctapus]

Excellent video, thanks.

[noctX]

How is this a misconception? Time is still a dimension, even if you don't order it as the fourth one. Plus, string theory (which is where the multiple dimension idea comes from) has not been proved.

[EnigmaHood]

@noctX I never said it wasn't a dimension. No theory has ever been proven, but yes string theory is still a working theory.

[JacksterLark]

@noctX No its impossible for time to be a dimension. for example. we are stuck in the third dimension and it is impossble to go to another dimension. so that means that if we time traveled we would be going into another dimension but still in a 3d perspective.

[77Fortran]

@JacksterLark We have these things for measuring timelike lengths in 4 dimensional geometry- they're called clocks!

[humbertojimmy]

@noctX Time is not exactly a dimension, is merely the other half of space in the basic graphic table, needeed to pin point an existing thing (let's call time X and space Y). Time/space is the neutral field to everything else and allows all the dimensions you can imagine.

[27alli]

This made my brain hurt

[kaliyuta]

I used to watch these science lectures when i was little.I would fall asleep to them.I'm a loser.

[declaration963]

This explain god power, why? because in this explanation about fourth dimension, actually we CAN'T see a god, we CAN'T smell god, but sometimes we CAN hear him.

i know the author of this video are atheistic, but this video explain "who is god"

BTW I'm MUSLIM.

[EnigmaHood]

@declaration963 You're Muslim? You mentioned before you are Asian, but maybe I'm jumping to conclusions here. Where are you from originally?

[declaration963]

@EnigmaHood I'm Indonesian :)

[EnigmaHood]

@declaration963 Ah, that makes sense :)

[yourvidisbad101]

@EnigmaHood err..... muslims are generally from the middleast,and the last time i checked, the middleast is part of asia......

[EnigmaHood]

@yourvidisbad101 Not all of it. Part of it is in North Africa, part of it is in West Asia. But in America, when someone says they are Asian, they typically mean they are from East Asia. In the UK, Asian typically refers to South Asians.

[cdog9991]

@declaration963 god power my ass

God is hole filler, an unknown, an "X" that we know nothing about. We don't know its matter, its properties, nothing. Everything you think you know about god is what others have told you which all eventually comes down to blind faith.

[declaration963]

@cdog9991 Blind faith in any religion is still better than atheism.

[cdog9991]

@cdog9991 Please DO explain. And nobody said nothing about atheism

[TerielAtmano]

Actually, time isn't a dimension, but it is the way we 3Ders perceive the fourth dimension. Just as a 2D creature sees cross sections of a 3D object, so we 3D creatures see cross sections of 4D objects. 'Time' is a 4D object passing through the 3rd dimension, and what we perceive (moments) are parts of that one object.

[myqueensindel]

/sigh I'm trying so hard to understand the fourth dimension, but I just can't imagine it.

[0IvvI0]

Maybe we can experience (glimpses of) other dimensions while asleep

there are several isotheric learnings that describe this

[jeevesosiris]

Carl Sagan is my hero. Well.... him and Skeletor...

[TSR1989FF]

@jeevesosiris Hmmm, i haven't seen those two in the same sentance before now ; )

[pivotman64]

@jeevesosiris i like michio kaku

[persephone112993]

Nice!

[EnigmaHood]

@persephone112993 Thank you!

[kimmaytube]

You're ruining all of my favorite myths!!

:o)

[EnigmaHood]

@kimmaytube I'm sorry XD

[zaxtor]

Nice GMC video.

Dimensions are strange how it works. Probably (In my theory) if you goto a parallel universe with more dimensions than ours. It will be pure dark, no stars and no planets. Nothing. But w/e live there might see us differently. If we go to their level you might see them, their realm and what they possibly look like. Probably higher form beings are existing in an extra dimension, Something might be even near you but you can't see, feel or detect it because we lack in a dimension.