2007-04-26 08:58:17 · 9 answers · asked by South African 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A dimension is a way of measuring things, and in which things might change. The three spatial dimensions might be thought of as a coordinate system by which you can define the location of any object in space, and through which objects can move.
In that sense, time is a sort of dimension, in that for a specific spatial coordinate, there may be different things there depending on point in time you choose. Time is NOT, however, like space in the sense that you can easily move back and forth, but it is a way of measuring things nonetheless. (Some theories do suggest that antimatter travels backward in time and that even stranger things go on, but that involves a MUCH more protracted discussion!)
There are many OTHER things that could easily be thought of as dimensions too. Mass, for example, is a property that is not dependant on location or time. And it can be changed, though the process is energetically quite expensive. Electric charge could be considered a dimension as well, even though its expression seems to be heavily quantized at the low end. Still, this latter qualification may not exclude it, as there is some research which suggests that space is not completely continuous either and may be quantized at a small enough scale.
Some theories physicists make use of postulate dozens of dimensions, the exact number varying depending on exactly which theory you favor. Even proponents of such ideas are hard pressed to name them all, even when obscure quantum-mechanical qualities such as 'flavor' and 'spin' are counted in.
Still, that is one interpretation of reality. And it does currently include many more dimensions than even six.
2007-04-26 09:03:04 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A mathematician friend of mine told me that in Maths you could compute in more than 6 dimensions. 100 dimensions, if you could handle it.
If he's not having me on, and this is true, then as Maths is a branch of science, it has already been proven.
2007-04-26 09:03:47 · answer #2 · answered by Balaboo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the Fifth Dimension? (and the first person who sayd "A singing group from the 60s", you're gonna get clobbered!)
What would be the 6th Dimension
2007-04-26 09:12:23 · answer #3 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only known dimensions are 3.Fourth we may include time.But what is the 5 th?.Will somebody clarify?
2007-04-29 18:19:16 · answer #4 · answered by leowin1948 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's the fifth dimension, let alone the sixth...?
2007-04-26 09:01:32 · answer #5 · answered by bumblecherry 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps! they think there are 11 dimensions for the string thoery
2007-04-26 09:07:31 · answer #6 · answered by wandera1970 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has it proved the existence of the fourth and fifth? Nobody told me.
2007-04-26 09:02:07 · answer #7 · answered by #+%? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
height
length
width
mass
time
sixth could be carla gugino !
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2007-04-26 09:06:52 · answer #8 · answered by tony cool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so. It is there.
2007-04-26 09:03:33 · answer #9 · answered by No Name 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋