Imagining the Tenth Dimension

The "0th dimension" is only a point. No matter what dimension you're in, if you're moving from one point to another within that dimension that's what "time" is: a changing from state to state within a dimension. So if you want to call the 0th dimension "time" that's fair game, then you have ten d...

Yes, that's one of the ideas I get into in my book and with these videos - string theory says our universe is embedded within a seven D "brane", and my approach to visualizing the dimensions also shows how we are constrained at the seventh dimension. But you're right, the number 7 seems to be sig...

No, a dekeract is definitely ten-dimensional, but you're right, we can only see shadows of those shapes down here in the lower dimensions. So the images that come up when you google for images of a dekeract are being displayed on your two-dimensional computer screen, which means they're 2-dimensi...

Cool! I'll have to check that out. A tesseract in The Avengers, a 5th dimensional alien in MIB III, nice to see these ideas getting out there this summer. In fact, I hear from writers and game designers regularly asking for my opinion about the logic of certain plot elements they're thinking of u...

Right, a wormhole is the equivalent of the "folding" concept that I talk about in the original Imagining the Tenth DImension animation. But to be clear, I'm not saying wormholes are only in the sixth dimension - no matter what spatial dimension you're thinking about there should be some way you c...

Light travels x distance in one year, that distance is called a light year. So if a spaceship was the distance of one light year away from us and it exploded, it would take one year for light from that explosion to reach us, not billions of years. In the same way, if we look in the sky tonight at...

Honestly I had to look that one up, I don't think I've ever seen or heard of him before. What a great player! Do you have a favorite song of his you think I should know about?

Absolutely, I think about that a lot! Language does place a filter on our interpretation of the universe, and Alfred Korzybski had some very interesting things to say about that. Brain scans of impressionists and bilingual persons also relate to this. Have you watched Jumping Jesus? watch?v=y1drv...

Yes, I talked about that interesting coincidence again in a video I put up just a few weeks ago:

watch?v=2ylVADkkf1Q

What you're describing is known as "quantum immortality", there's a good article about it in wikipedia. While that's similar, I think it's important to remember what I'm proposing here: if you commit suicide you don't suddenly "become" the version of you where the gun didn't go off (or whatever s...

While I understand his intent, that is at best just semantics. Of course it's not just me, it's physicists all over the world who talk about "the fifth dimension being curled up at the planck length" and so on. minutephysics is making exactly the same point that I've been making for the last six ...

Right, I've had the same crazy idea - here's my video called "Time and Schizophrenia": watch?v=ow6VC6NjPNk

Also related:

Time and Music watch?v=GCKDcjBsw1Q

Consciousness in Frames Per Second watch?v=txSqMO4OrOY

If it somehow makes you and minutephysics happier to say "Imagining 4 dimensions" go for it, but those 4 spacetime dimensions are definitely different from considering just 3, or 2 or 1. To say you can't discuss the additional degrees of freedom added by each new spatial dimension is frankly frau...

So the paper analogy is the same - keeping your pencil on the paper you can draw a continuous line without leaving the "plane" of this fifth dimensional set. But if you lift your pencil you can use 6D to violate this linear causality and jump to a completely different position. For us, there are ...

Woh, that's definitely the first time I've been asked that question. I have read Foucault's Pendulum and some of the Dan Brown books so I do know what what it is, but no, I wouldn't call myself a Rosicrurian. Thanks for the fascinating question though!

Yes, that's what I'm saying: that this "zero" we start from is not empty, it's full of all the other possibilities. Cosmologists say that our universe springs from a breaking of symmetry, and an enfolded perfectly balanced symmetry should add up to zero, or it isn't really symmetrical. Your page...

Again: please tell me what SK company spends $7 making a product, then declares $14 of taxable income on the sale of that product? Virtually every business I know spends a good portion of their profit on infrastructure, or R&D, or dividends, they don't leave it all sitting there as taxable income...

Love it! Great groove.

How are you at ActionScript? You have to fairly well versed at coding with that to do something like this.This uses an open source package called FLARToolkit, you can google that and see what it's all about. And just write to my youtube channel inbox if you want to know more.

"Cancel" refers to the quantum mechanics idea that there's an underlying indeterminacy, a certain "fuzziness" to our reality. Feynman showed that if you looked at all the possible paths a quantum object could take and added all those vectors together, you would end up with one path which was the ...

Consider this: "time" is a direction which can be in any dimension, since it's just a word for describing change from state to state. If absolutely every possible state for our own universe is confined to a certain position (or "brane") in the 7th dimension, then some other position would be a di...

Hey, thanks Paul! And thanks for the video you sent me, what an ambitious project! Plus, very cool to hear all that old music again.