Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 2 of 2

NEW VERSION! Imagining the Tenth Dimension - 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqeqW3... (and thank you to Discovery Channel News for calling it a "Gotta See Video" http://news.discovery.com/space/imagi... )
Check out the Scientific American article praising this project! http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/g...
Watch Imagining the Fourth Dimension for more about this idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN4KC_...
This approach to visualizing the fifth dimension is now seeing support from scientists at Oxford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o87TkF...
You should follow this project on twitter: http://twitter.com/10thdim
Watch the annotated version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjsgoX...
This is the first part of the animation illustrating the concepts found in chapter one of the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension - a new way of thinking about time and space" by Rob Bryanton, from tenthdimension.com

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[93frodo]

If infinite is everything and then you add another infinite, it becomes incorrect two say that the first 'infinite' world was infinite, because it was not everything it is finite because of the existence of 'another infinite'. This by definition is impossible. could you please explain?

[10thdim]

If you google Georg Cantor you'll see he proved there are different kinds of infinity. And it's very easy to show how one infinity can be a subset of another, just start counting even numbers: 0,2,4,6,8... that will take you to infinity. Now count whole numbers: 0,1,2,3,4... that's another way to get to infinity. Both are infinite, but that first infinity is a subset of the second one.

[TheAverageChannelx]

I have a question, the pattern seems to repeat itself, (point - line - split - fold) so at 1:54 you said that the 8th dimension should be a split. But shouldn't it be a single line like the 1st dimension? Thatnks for your time :)

[10thdim]

The logic of the point-line-plane postulate (the accepted way of visualizing any number of spatial dimensions) allows us to reach the same conclusion, that extra dimensions can be visualized using repeating logical constructs. So in this video we suggest that dimensions 1,4, and 7 can be thought of as lines, 2,5 and 8 can be thought of as splits, and 3,6, and 9 can thought of as "folds".

[ellisg12]

What's bigger? The amount of numbers between 4 and 5, or the amount of numbers between 4 and 6? Both are infinity, but the second infinity is twice as big as the first infinity.

[luckyeights8]

.....wow....

[beder21x]

big bang?? what caused the big bang to do that and what made it do that and how was that there and why did that do that..... -_- 

[livicationmedia]

You're just not high enough.

[livicationmedia]

What if that ten dimensional point is just a point in another realm of existence too bizarre for our minds to even comprehend? And the system just repeats itself to yet another infinity in units of ten? In other words, the metric system is the way of the universe? lol.

[FlagonFury]

Everything is 10-dimensional. Think of all these dimensions as a hyperbox where everything can move around and exist. Things which exist entirely in a set of dimensions (such as the universe) are a point in the next dimension up, which is composed of infinite iterations of similar things (universes). Strings are capable of moving in the 10th dimension and so they can move in every dimension down, performing what we would perceive as teleportation and being everywhere at once.

[FlagonFury]

That's a way of describing it, but we do observe extra dimensions indirectly. We observe a 3D object from our position in space time where we can observe the object from different angles. We observe duration by seeing an object persist and change between frames. When it comes to the 5th, we don't experience realities that weren't caused in our timeline but we can understand them, like if you flip a coin and get heads you know there is a universe where it was tails. Curling is more of a visual.

[LegacyJace]

The seventh dimension is the line between different infinities. The 4th,5th, and 6th represent the possibilities of our current universe. Using yourself is an example, but ultimately the universe's timeline is still part of this. The 6th dimension is the fold for the fourth and fifth dimension, but is a point in the seventh, much like the 3rd dimension is a fold for the 1st and 2nd, but is only a point in the fourth. Every dimension is used in the one above as a "point".