How would a fifth dimensional reality look like? Do you think that the four dimensions is the borderline between finite and "super finite" realities as far as space and time are concerned...?
2006-12-20 12:28:39 · 19 answers · asked by Alexander K 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Other - Alternative
You would be able to move in five different "directions", all of them perpendicular to the others.
Think of how you move in 3 dimensions. You can move forward, sideways, and up (or down). Those 3 dimensions are all at right angles to each other.
To imagine what a 5th dimensional frame of reference would look like, you'd have to be able to imagine being able to move in 5 different directions, all at right angles to each other.
In other words, it can't be imagined - though it can be done with mathematics. The property of dimensions which are mutually perpendicular is known as "orthogonality". All you have to do is make orthogonality true for five dimensions, and you're there - on paper, at least.
2006-12-20 19:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by almintaka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this thought experiment, forgetting time. A one dimensional object, eg a line, when held on end, would make a zero dimensional shadow (a point has no dimensions). A two dimensional object eg a pice of paper, held on end, would make a one dimensional shadow. A cube (3-d) has a 2-d shadow (square). So, what held up would make a cube as a shadow? oooooooohhh (cue star wars music). So, to answer your question, you can never know because you are a three(4) dimensional being!
2006-12-20 21:53:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since we are three dimensional beings, our eyes would not be able to see fifth dimensional reality so it will not have a look. The best we can look at is possible optical effects similar to shadows of three dimensions objects on two dimensional planes or the viewing of slices of hyper-dimensional objects as they intersect our three dimensional space.
2006-12-21 12:08:30 · answer #3 · answered by scottdprt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i remember the fantastic way someone showed how fictional 2 dimensional lifeforms on a 2-dimensional sheet of paper would cope with a Pencil being pushed right through it giving it a 3rd dimension.
They would observe something strange. A barrier with uncertain borders having the form of a circle.
it would be something very strange for them.
maybe if we slowly get along with einsteins 4 dimensional spacetime, we could see strange things happen below the planck scale too. which could in fact be the 'edge' of such a pencil penetrating our limitied view on things.
a good introduction about those things can be found ...
2006-12-21 20:27:55 · answer #4 · answered by blondnirvana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You already live in a hyperdimensional universe! String theory predicts that as many as nine or 10 spatial dimensions, plus time, may exist, for a total of 10 or 11 spacetime dimensions.
Whatever you see now is how it "looks".
Our biological basis of perception and innate/intuitive neural processing is pretty much locked into the three-D plus time paradigm. Any understanding beyond this is abstract and in the realm of mathematical thinking.
2006-12-21 13:16:21 · answer #5 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If current theories are correct, a universe with mare than 3 directional dimensions plus time would look like the universe you see around you. Cosmologists believe that our universe is defined in more than three dimensions, possibly 9, maybe 11. Maybe the question should be, "What would it look like to SEE in 5 dimensions?", Sort of like the question, "What would it look like to see UV or infrared?" . That information is out there, but we have not evolved to be able to see it.
2006-12-20 21:17:47 · answer #6 · answered by PoppaJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is such a reality but first you must enter to the fourth dimension. Fifth dimension is the Turiya state. You must be a good meditator to reach that level.
2006-12-21 19:12:15 · answer #7 · answered by Sahaja Yogi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always thought about this question too... and I always thought, its kind of how Picasso painted his abstract paintings. When you look at them, what he was trying to convery is seeing an abject but at all sides all at once. So I thought, what a clever guy.
What would it be like to see someone from the side but also see the other side of their face at the same time. Sort of like looking at a mirror image but getting both images at the same time?
I dunno, my guess. I cant even begin to figure 7, 8 and 9 dimensions. Must have something to do with how strings react at sub sub atomic levels.
2006-12-22 06:45:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the latest string theory we live in an eleven dimensional universe
2006-12-22 07:23:30 · answer #9 · answered by uncle J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like the 3rd dimension would look to a 2 dimensional being.
And, no!
2006-12-20 20:31:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋