Is it possible to see in the fourth dimension ?

Question

I could literally see time moving

Answer 1

Your question touches on a very central theme in mathematical physics: the conceptualization of mathematical tools that are convenient to give results, but sometimes not so convenient in offering clear conceptual models.

To me, you're question should really be: how do I visualize the twenty-sixth dimension? (see wickipedia "string theory" for a good discussion of this).

So here is my answer to you: you can't see time, because time doesn't have any physical properties that we can see. It is like asking if you can hear distance. Time is a fundamental property of the universe that cannot be explained or quantified in terms of any other aspects of reality.

That said, it is possible to quantify time and present any number of representations of it, such as graphs, surfaces, even objects. However the key is that we have to symbolize time by something else that can be seen. Similarly, you could hear a representation of time in the same way, or feel it, or smell it even. It just probably wouldn't be very useful, and the whole purpose of coming up with symbols is utility. It turns out that humans are good at thinking in terms of visual space.

In truth, to modern physicists, it is not time but space-time that exists. Your concept of time, and perhaps mine and everyone elses, is not accurate. Humans just experience a linearity to events and call it something. Concepts are more about usefullness than "truth" or accuracy, as these things are ultimately unknowable.

Lastly, let me add that we know time by watching things. It is difficult to keep track of time without our eyes open. Consider the time-confusion that comes with sleep.

So the fact that you intuitively feel that you can "see time moving," to me, sounds like you are just in touch with the essence of human time perception - although you have to keep in mind that your feeling is more poetic than descriptive.

Answer 2

Perhaps we see in the fourth dimension all the time and we don't realize it. Don't we see things move?

I am also confident that if I create a virtual 4 dimensional reality within a computer, I could make a virtual 4 dimensional eye "see" it.

Answer 3

You can't see in the fourth dimension. Only four dimensional objects can. We are only three dimensional. If you are a four dimension objects, you will not see time moving. You will see everything at the beginning of time and the end of time "at the same time".
Just like two dimensional objects can only see a flat plane. But we, three dimensional objects, can see the lowest and heighest of the planes at one go.
The reason people think that we are four dimensional is because we pass through time. But we can only see things in a specific time at one time. Just like a piece of paper and ants (they cant look up or down) on it and the piece of paper is constantly floating down. The ants only see the surrounding changing as the go lower and lower. But they are only 2-D.

Answer 4

The fourth dimension isn't time. It's 3-d objects inside of one another. They intersect at 90 degree angles.

Answer 5

I see dimensions as like light. We can view the visible light spectrum, but ultraviolet and infra-red radiation are invisible to our eyes. We can see in 3 dimensions, but our eyes are just not capable of viewing any other possible dimensions. Of course this has no physical support, but nothing that has to do with explaining the 4th dimension has applicable proof.

Answer 6

No.

If you ever watch a show in which a character passes from the second dimension of space ( a cartoon) into a third dimension (reality), you will notice that they are astounded.

We know it is there, and we can prove scientifically it exists (Stephen Hawkings), but we can't wrap our little minds around it.

Answer 7

Time is the 4th dimension. U must have watced movies on time machines. They use Einstein's Eqn. E=mc^2. It can be summarized as: If something travels with more velocity than light, keeping mass & length constant, then it will travel in time.

Answer 8

Two views on the space and time.
1.
There are an independent space and independent time:
We notice it on our planet - Earth.
It is a fhree - dimensional space.
2.
There is simultaneous union of space and time:
It is negative four-dimensional (Minkowski) space.
Herman Minkowski :
“ Henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself,
are doomed to fade away into mere shadows,
and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.”
Question.
What is the “a kind of union of the two “?
The answer.
It is Vacuum. T=0K.
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Socratus

Answer 9

Yes ofcourse!...The time is the fourth dimension....and rmember you are travelling in the same direction! :) its just like when you are in a moving bus you dont notice that you are on a move untill you look out of your window........thats it! :)....lets see if we can catch some aliens.....who can outspeed us so that we can feel the time just like we notce that our bus moves when the other bus stays stagnant or slows down.....

Answer 10

I believe we are already in the fourth dimension and don't know it.