As we all know the fourth dimension is time..... Einstein prompted it to equal footing as space.
Is it really possible to visualise 4 dimensions?
2007-01-30 13:05:34 · 5 answers · asked by sh 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Heres a Hypercube (tesseract) visualization on the link...click through the little show in the box.
2007-01-30 13:42:22 · answer #1 · answered by Beach_Bum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein showed how time can be "a" fourth dimension. But that doesn't mean it is "the" fourth dimension.
A number of books have been written about the concept of a fourth SPATIAL dimension. Most of what we can say about comes from looking at the differences between our 3 dimensions and a 2 dimensional "world", and making analogies. We can also get formulae for the "hypervolumes" of "hypercubes" and the like.
Some of books I'd recommened on the subject are Rudolf Rucker's "The Fourth Dimension", Edwin A. Abbott's "Flatland", and Michio Kaku's "Hyperspace".
2007-01-30 21:15:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our brains didn't evolve to visualize more than 3 dimensions. Mathematically, though, it's all very nice and neat.
2007-01-30 21:10:51 · answer #3 · answered by Tangent . 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One way might be to imagine that you were graphing the path of an object in 3D space. Suppose you were using red to chart the path of the object. Over time, the red could get darker (or lighter) to indicate how it moved in the 3D space over time.
2007-01-30 21:12:16 · answer #4 · answered by Ben C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think the human brain can visualize the fourth dimension but it can conceptualize it
2007-01-30 21:10:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋