Isn't dimensional brain-twisting absolutely fabulous? The annoying thing about this whole business is that I'm not sure we can treat Time as the "fourth" dimension (if there's any reasoning as to why we can, I'd like to hear it) because we don't know anything about any spatial relationships it might have to the "first" three dimensions. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have issues with the hierarchy of the known dimensions. And all those other funky dimensions curled up everywhere? I don't think THAT's going to work if one keeps up the progression-of-dimensions explanation that you and lots of other people (very nicely) outlined. Then again, I am but an ignorant classical civilization major, the despair of all known physics departments, determined to achieve ambidexterity by transcribing Tennyson.
*runs off to read popular science string theory book*
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Re: huh
Date: 2004-08-02 04:12 pm (UTC)Isn't dimensional brain-twisting absolutely fabulous? The annoying thing about this whole business is that I'm not sure we can treat Time as the "fourth" dimension (if there's any reasoning as to why we can, I'd like to hear it) because we don't know anything about any spatial relationships it might have to the "first" three dimensions. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have issues with the hierarchy of the known dimensions. And all those other funky dimensions curled up everywhere? I don't think THAT's going to work if one keeps up the progression-of-dimensions explanation that you and lots of other people (very nicely) outlined. Then again, I am but an ignorant classical civilization major, the despair of all known physics departments, determined to achieve ambidexterity by transcribing Tennyson.
*runs off to read popular science string theory book*