Why couldn't both space and time be multidimensional? Isn't calling time the fourth dimension arbitrary. What if space and time were subsets of dimensions? Couldn't some of the time-travelling paradoxes be done away with if we looked at time not linearally but planar. Several timelines could set next to each other if we stacked them up on a second axis of time, right? Or wrong?
2006-08-02 16:45:24 · 7 answers · asked by pharis81 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Yep. That would help explain apparent paradoxes inherent in quantum physics (pick whatever version you like). Collapse of the wave function could only be explained by a lateral time relationship between different points in space (in my opinion), so you are probably correct, Spock.
2006-08-02 16:59:09 · answer #1 · answered by dlfield 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there are multiple universes, as in some theories, they could all have different numbers of spatial and temporal (time) dimensions, but most wouldn't be able to sustain life. If there were only 2 spatial dimensions, as in flatland, you wouldn't be able to have a digestive tract; you'd fall apart. If you had more than 3 spatial dimensions, planetary orbits wouldn't be stable. If you had no temporal dimensions, nothing would ever happen. If you had more than one temporal dimension, there would be no cause and effect. Events would be completely unpredictable and complicated systems like living things couldn't grow and evolve.
2006-08-02 18:01:49 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time as the fourth dimension is a myth. The fourth dimension is simply the extension of space into another angle that we can't detect because we're not fourth-dimensional. Time is merely the measurement of how matter moves. It has no intrinsic properties of its own.
2006-08-02 16:54:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask me the question again on the weekend when my brain's not as fried after a workday.
2006-08-02 16:48:46 · answer #4 · answered by Tygirljojo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time.
According to "Big Bang"
20 billions years ago the time compressed up to zero.............
Then has taken place "Big Bang".
At first second was......
On second second was....
On third second was formed.....
………….
…………………..
………………………….. . .etc.
It means that in the beginning the Time was Absolute.
Question:
How did different time later arisen?
2006-08-02 19:47:25 · answer #5 · answered by socratus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting, and maybe true. But how does one prove it?
2006-08-02 16:53:28 · answer #6 · answered by sin city bobbi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u just now figuring that one out.................................
2006-08-02 16:48:51 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ Haylow ♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋