Imagining the Third Dimension

Thank you to Zoltan Penzeli for the new Hungarian subtitles! To read along (in English) go to http://imaginingthetenthdimension.blogspot.com/2011/08/imagining-third-dimens...
Other links from this entry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjsgoXvnStY
http://science.discovery.com/tv/through-the-wormhole/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barbour
http://imaginingthetenthdimension.blogspot.com/2008/04/flipbook-universe.html
http://imaginingthetenthdimension.blogspot.com/2011/08/imagining-second-dimen...

Category:

Science & Technology

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• third
• dimension
• second
• tenth
• 3D
• 4D
• space
• space-time
• physics
• philosophy
• Julian
• Barbour
• wormhole
• Morgan
• Freeman
• tenthdimension
• Bryanton

[FearThisChannel]

What programme did you use to make all these videos?

[10thdim]

@FearThisChannel I use Final Cut running on a MacBook. Thanks for asking. :)

[selvmordspilot]

i like how you made it so that the dimensions that are strange (1st, 2nd) were understandable. But the dimensionality we all know the best (3rd), suddenly turned very strange.

[10thdim]

@selvmordspilot Exactly! We take the third dimension for granted, don't realize how limited it really is, and that's where some of the misunderstanding about the "extra degree of freedom" introduced by each additional dimension begins.

Thanks for writing!

Rob

[DJSchousen]

You clarified so much about time being a property of the fourth dimension that gives the lower ones their assumed aspects. Thank you Rob!

[Depristition117]

I clicked thinking that this was a parody, but I was suprised by the fact that you took this seriously.

[vividMario52]

@difficultsyllables Because, it will give us a better understanding of the 3rd dimension, it's like space without time.

[maggotsic3]

after watching all your videos i have questioned everything i know

[difficultsyllables]

Why do we have to imagine the 3rd dimension when we're in right now?

[TheMrTadas]

Thats deep dude.

[31428571J]

(continuing)

Quarks suspected of having a non-elementary composition ('preons' are postulated "point-like" particles, conceived to be subcomponents of quarks and leptons) leading to 'infinite divisibility' returning back into the arena of potential, casts observational experimental (non-theoretical) physics even further away from the realms of evidential proof.

No wonder metaphysics/platonic forms and a philosophical outlook in regards to analytical science is all the rage again:-)

[31428571J]

Planck time defined as the time it takes a photon of light to 'travel' (in a vacuum) 1 Planck length seems more awkward to truly accept than even dimensionless points (or zero thickness lines). 'Travelling' ANY distance surely entails at least 3 points (a, b and c) - so why can't we subdivide and theoretically 'halve' yet again I would then ask?

(though I guess this is where the ''spacetime might have a discrete or foamy structure'' argument comes into effect)

[woody0900]

How do we know that the stars haven't already burnt out but it takes so long for the light to travel that we see them as still formed stars?