A computer-generated rendering of a possible six-dimensional
geometry similar to those studied by UW-Madison physicist Gary Shiu.
Image: courtesy Andrew J. Hanson, Indiana University
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Weston
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OH MY GOD!!!! This was so awesome but so confusing! I liked it because we had a big discussion about this in math, but all the things he said were crazy! Like how the seventh dimension is a point, and the third dimension is a fold; I just thought it was CRAZY!!!!
I think that concept was very hard to understand, but we have to think this way in order to understand the world around us. If the tenth dimension is a dot, can't there be a dimension thinking about all the possible things for all the possible universes for all the possible eras of universes. Universes had to start so can't another one start? If the big bang happened it can happen again. It would take a long time but it would happen. I mean if a person dies, another person is born right? That is how it works. If a universe dies then another universe can be born again. I would call that the eleventh dimension. I thought the video was pretty awesome and I really liked it.
Grace said... How can we know if the 10th dimension is real if we don't even know if the 4th dimension is real? All of the people in US1 have read A Wrinkle in Time, and we had a long talk about if the 4th dimension is real. If the 4th dimension is real then that means that we would be able to time travel. In the book it explains that if you put an ant on one end of the rope, the ant has a long way to go before it gets to the end. So they say if you just fold the rope, the ant is already at the end. We just need to find a way to fold time. I am not sure how we would do that, but if we were than that would be a revolutionary accomplishment.
That was very confusing. I was saying how the 11th dimension video wasn't detailed enough, this one was way to confusing. They are suggesting there is a "wrinkle in time" and that was how the third dimension was created. Simply by folding the 2nd dimension. I think by the 5th dimension, it starts to get weird. The first dimension is length, second is height, third is depth, fourth is assumed to be time, but they say the fifth dimension is created by different outcomes, which happens by time-travel. If we don't know about time travel, how can we get to the fifth dimension. I think that this video has the right idea on the 4th, but past that, I think they don't. There is said to be 11 dimensions, which I can believe, but I think this video has the wrong ideas. I would have to say this video wasn't great, but it is on to something.
A very cool and interesting visual but very confusing. I got a bit confused with the different dimesions. Personally, I don't understand dimensions in general, so this video was confusing for myself. I thought it was confusing because I didn't get how you could jumo from on place in time to the next in actual life. Although there was a lot going on, when times I kind of understood it, it was so cool. It's very interesting how there is a 10th dimesion. Overall, interesting but a bit confusing.
Ok. So I think we can all agree that that was confusing, but quite interesting. I am going to agree with everybody on this one. But, how do we know about anything past the 4th dimension? I mean, how are we finding out about these things if we don’t live in them or have experienced them before? Where is the scientific proof? Also, these people seem to believe that a lot of these dimensions just involve folding the dimension before that one. But in the end, folding a dimension would just be time traveling. For example: If I was on a hike, but suddenly I got really tired, and I started to wish I was at the bottom of the hill. You couldn’t in any circumstance fold time, even if we were in a later dimension because you could just time travel. So in a sense, all of the dimensions after the fourth dimension seem impossible. But, to solve my hiking situation, my only options would be, even if I was in the tenth dimension, time travel. Another point I would like to bring up is how we even came up with the idea of “folding time.” In case these people haven’t noticed, we can’t touch time. It’s not a noun. It’s beyond a noun. It is basically our whole world. We revolve around time. So, we can’t just decide to fold over time so we can reach our goal. Also, this can’t possibly be a solution if we were having a problem to bend time. I mean, what if somebody wanted to finish a report, they couldn’t just fold time and be done with it, while billions of the other people in the world were trying to enjoy their last few hours on their vacation. This whole “folding time” idea just doesn’t make sense to me at all. And, if we can’t even time travel (the fifth dimension), why are we even thinking about the sixth, seven, eighth, nine, and tenth dimension yet. I mean, why waste our time thinking about something beyond what we can even wrap our heads around? In the end, this video was entertaining, confusing, interesting, and kind of impossible.
I still don't understand how all of the ninth dimensional stuff was combined into a dot. If that was possible, and if that was the 10th dimension, than how could their be an eleventh dimension?
This was really amazing, but it's really hard to understand. Since there's a whole cycle, I wonder why it goes from a point, 0 dimensional, through the cycle, and then the next dimension ends up with an infinite point, but there isn't really any number that would work as a dimension in between 0 and infinity. If you took 100, then why not use 1000? If that happened, you would never get to infinity, you would just keep going, and going, and going, and dimensions don't really use set numbers, so it's hard to imagine any dimension beyond the third. It got most confusing for me between the fourth and fifth dimension. I didn't really understand how you could only travel to specific times in the fifth dimension, but it seemed like you could travel anywhere in your lifespan in the fourth dimension. Then it just got more and more confusing. It's really hard to imagine an infinite point, because a point is basically nothing, it's just a very specific location in space, not quite in any physical dimension, but infinity describes pretty much everything, so it seems like it's squeezing everything into nothing, which sounds impossible.
Wow, I just got blown away. This video was amazing, but like everyone else said, confusing. I agree with everyone on this. I am amazed, but like Izzy said, where is the scientific proof? If the 1st dimension is a point, is the 0th dimension nothing? I still don't understand how if the 1st dimension is a point, then how is the 10th a point?
Wow, that hurt my brain. Many questions came up while I was watching; the first one is that if there are fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh etc. dimensions, and we are living in the third dimension, could we fold our bodies and other objects through other dimensions to teleport from place to place or time to time like the tesseract in A Wrinkle in Time? My second question (more like a concern): do dimensions go on forever? Space supposedly never ends, and if you really think about it you can't really come up with an endpoint to dimensions either. As the dimensions go from third to fourth to fifth to sixth and so on the dimensions get more and more unrealistic and weird and seem more impossible than the last one. Also, what do the other dimensions look and feel like? The man in the video took the time to explain what the different dimensions in theory would be, but he never addressed what they would actually look like. The man described all of the other dimensions as traveling through different times and infinities and complicated stuff, but what if those do not describe other dimensions? What if the fourth dimension is some other direction that third dimensioners can not physically see or feel, and the fifth dimension is some other dimension that fourth dimensioners can not physically see or feel and so on for infinite dimensions? If that is true, other dimensions much higher than ours must be REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY confusing!! I think that the idea of multiple dimensions is kind of above our heads, but I still really enjoyed the video.
I think the video is amazing. It is very hard for me to imagine how there could be a tenth dimension. Like Izzy said, since we are stuck in our third dimension, we don't have any scientific proof that points to a tenth dimension. We can't understand the tenth dimension because it is impossible for us to see it. We can understand the 0th, 1st, and 2nd because they are lower dimensions then our own. I agree with Izzy about how it is impossible to touch time, and it is impossible to enter into another dimension, so why spend time thinking about it when we can't ever reach it?
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OH MY GOD!!!! This was so awesome but so confusing! I liked it because we had a big discussion about this in math, but all the things he said were crazy! Like how the seventh dimension is a point, and the third dimension is a fold; I just thought it was CRAZY!!!!
I think that concept was very hard to understand, but we have to think this way in order to understand the world around us. If the tenth dimension is a dot, can't there be a dimension thinking about all the possible things for all the possible universes for all the possible eras of universes. Universes had to start so can't another one start? If the big bang happened it can happen again. It would take a long time but it would happen. I mean if a person dies, another person is born right? That is how it works. If a universe dies then another universe can be born again. I would call that the eleventh dimension. I thought the video was pretty awesome and I really liked it.
Grace said...
How can we know if the 10th dimension is real if we don't even know if the 4th dimension is real? All of the people in US1 have read A Wrinkle in Time, and we had a long talk about if the 4th dimension is real. If the 4th dimension is real then that means that we would be able to time travel. In the book it explains that if you put an ant on one end of the rope, the ant has a long way to go before it gets to the end. So they say if you just fold the rope, the ant is already at the end. We just need to find a way to fold time. I am not sure how we would do that, but if we were than that would be a revolutionary accomplishment.
Grace continues...
We don't even know if it is possible to fold time. How do you fold time? Where is time?
That was very confusing. I was saying how the 11th dimension video wasn't detailed enough, this one was way to confusing. They are suggesting there is a "wrinkle in time" and that was how the third dimension was created. Simply by folding the 2nd dimension. I think by the 5th dimension, it starts to get weird. The first dimension is length, second is height, third is depth, fourth is assumed to be time, but they say the fifth dimension is created by different outcomes, which happens by time-travel. If we don't know about time travel, how can we get to the fifth dimension. I think that this video has the right idea on the 4th, but past that, I think they don't. There is said to be 11 dimensions, which I can believe, but I think this video has the wrong ideas. I would have to say this video wasn't great, but it is on to something.
A very cool and interesting visual but very confusing. I got a bit confused with the different dimesions. Personally, I don't understand dimensions in general, so this video was confusing for myself. I thought it was confusing because I didn't get how you could jumo from on place in time to the next in actual life. Although there was a lot going on, when times I kind of understood it, it was so cool. It's very interesting how there is a 10th dimesion. Overall, interesting but a bit confusing.
Ok. So I think we can all agree that that was confusing, but quite interesting.
I am going to agree with everybody on this one. But, how do we know about anything past the 4th dimension? I mean, how are we finding out about these things if we don’t live in them or have experienced them before? Where is the scientific proof?
Also, these people seem to believe that a lot of these dimensions just involve folding the dimension before that one. But in the end, folding a dimension would just be time traveling. For example: If I was on a hike, but suddenly I got really tired, and I started to wish I was at the bottom of the hill. You couldn’t in any circumstance fold time, even if we were in a later dimension because you could just time travel. So in a sense, all of the dimensions after the fourth dimension seem impossible. But, to solve my hiking situation, my only options would be, even if I was in the tenth dimension, time travel.
Another point I would like to bring up is how we even came up with the idea of “folding time.” In case these people haven’t noticed, we can’t touch time. It’s not a noun. It’s beyond a noun. It is basically our whole world. We revolve around time. So, we can’t just decide to fold over time so we can reach our goal. Also, this can’t possibly be a solution if we were having a problem to bend time. I mean, what if somebody wanted to finish a report, they couldn’t just fold time and be done with it, while billions of the other people in the world were trying to enjoy their last few hours on their vacation. This whole “folding time” idea just doesn’t make sense to me at all.
And, if we can’t even time travel (the fifth dimension), why are we even thinking about the sixth, seven, eighth, nine, and tenth dimension yet. I mean, why waste our time thinking about something beyond what we can even wrap our heads around?
In the end, this video was entertaining, confusing, interesting, and kind of impossible.
This was amazing. It was hard to understand, but I think I get it
I still don't understand how all of the ninth dimensional stuff was combined into a dot. If that was possible, and if that was the 10th dimension, than how could their be an eleventh dimension?
This was really amazing, but it's really hard to understand. Since there's a whole cycle, I wonder why it goes from a point, 0 dimensional, through the cycle, and then the next dimension ends up with an infinite point, but there isn't really any number that would work as a dimension in between 0 and infinity. If you took 100, then why not use 1000? If that happened, you would never get to infinity, you would just keep going, and going, and going, and dimensions don't really use set numbers, so it's hard to imagine any dimension beyond the third. It got most confusing for me between the fourth and fifth dimension. I didn't really understand how you could only travel to specific times in the fifth dimension, but it seemed like you could travel anywhere in your lifespan in the fourth dimension. Then it just got more and more confusing. It's really hard to imagine an infinite point, because a point is basically nothing, it's just a very specific location in space, not quite in any physical dimension, but infinity describes pretty much everything, so it seems like it's squeezing everything into nothing, which sounds impossible.
Wow, I just got blown away. This video was amazing, but like everyone else said, confusing. I agree with everyone on this. I am amazed, but like Izzy said, where is the scientific proof? If the 1st dimension is a point, is the 0th dimension nothing? I still don't understand how if the 1st dimension is a point, then how is the 10th a point?
Wow, that hurt my brain. Many questions came up while I was watching; the first one is that if there are fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh etc. dimensions, and we are living in the third dimension, could we fold our bodies and other objects through other dimensions to teleport from place to place or time to time like the tesseract in A Wrinkle in Time? My second question (more like a concern): do dimensions go on forever? Space supposedly never ends, and if you really think about it you can't really come up with an endpoint to dimensions either. As the dimensions go from third to fourth to fifth to sixth and so on the dimensions get more and more unrealistic and weird and seem more impossible than the last one. Also, what do the other dimensions look and feel like? The man in the video took the time to explain what the different dimensions in theory would be, but he never addressed what they would actually look like. The man described all of the other dimensions as traveling through different times and infinities and complicated stuff, but what if those do not describe other dimensions? What if the fourth dimension is some other direction that third dimensioners can not physically see or feel, and the fifth dimension is some other dimension that fourth dimensioners can not physically see or feel and so on for infinite dimensions? If that is true, other dimensions much higher than ours must be REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY confusing!! I think that the idea of multiple dimensions is kind of above our heads, but I still really enjoyed the video.
I think the video is amazing. It is very hard for me to imagine how there could be a tenth dimension. Like Izzy said, since we are stuck in our third dimension, we don't have any scientific proof that points to a tenth dimension. We can't understand the tenth dimension because it is impossible for us to see it. We can understand the 0th, 1st, and 2nd because they are lower dimensions then our own. I agree with Izzy about how it is impossible to touch time, and it is impossible to enter into another dimension, so why spend time thinking about it when we can't ever reach it?
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