What's 5-D (& 4-D)? Please explain it as simply & non-mathematically as possible.?

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Does any1 know what 4-D & 5-D r? I looked it up on Wikipedia & Google; however, it was null & void on any info. I didn't find much useful info on 4-D, either :) So, please explain it 2 me (if u can) in scientific, astronomical, &/or phillosophical terms; use as little math apositves (explanations) as possible (I suck @ math & succeed in Language Arts ;)

I looked up 5-D (Wikipedia & Google), but not 5 dimensions....

I just looked up five dimensions, & the fact is, we might be living in a 5-D blackhole (cool :)! What about 6-D? I watched this show, & it said there may be 11 multiverses (multiple univereses.) Cool, hugh (I like astro-physics ;)

OK, u can add some math (just don't make it 2 complex ;)

Answer 1

Good lord - no math... well, think of it like this.

Rather than thinking of the 3rd dimension as depth, think of it as "folding the 1st and 2nd dimensions together," allowing you to jump between the two. (Imagine a one-dimensional and on a peice of paper. It cannot travel from one edge to another without crossing the entire page. If you roll the paper into a tube, the ant can 'jump' directly from one edge to another.)

The 4th dimension is not time, but "duration". The 5th dimension could be folded to the 4th.

In layman's terms, the 5th dimension is what you would use as a "route" for time travel.

If you want to get even further, the 6th dimension is the result of the 4th and 5th being folded together. This means the 6th dimension encompasses everything that has ever occured in the 3D world, as well as every available path between occurrences.

The 7th dimension is time. Think of it as a single point which encompasses everything in our universe, including the 5th and 6th dimensions we are unaware of.

This means that there are also other points in the 7th dimension - each representing all time for another universe. If you drew a line between the two, you would have the 8th dimension.

Take the 9th dimension, representing every possible occurrence in the lower dimensions, rather than only what we saw happen. Fold the 8th to the 9th, and you've got the 10th, which is essentially a means to travel between multiple universes as well as every possible occurrence for each universe.

The string theory has predicted that there could be either 10, 11, or 26 dimensions. 10 dimensions is as far as I can go, and then my head starts to hurt.

***Also, the existence of black holes in higher dimensions is purely mathematical. These higher dimensional black holes are predicted by Lie (pronounced "lee") Algebra, a very advanced facet of Group Theory.

The 7th, 10th, ... basically every third dimension from there on relies on these mathematic groups in order to exist. Obviously we have evidence of the 4th though, since each of the three dimensions we live in simultaneously rely on exactly the same point in time, which is the reason that a perfectly stationary cube (or any object for that matter) will never change it's proportions (ie. turn into a plane by removing it from the 3rd dimension, etc)

***And the answerer below me is completely right. Thanks to 'quarks', we now have to worry about topness, bottomness, spin, charm, etcetera. How's this for another dimension - "A one dimensional ant can crawl AROUND a two dimensional rope")

As far as 'physical' dimensions, current theories restrict us to 4,10,11, or 26.

Answer 2

In mathematical terms (No! Damnit!!! Quite squirming. This won't hurt a bit. I promise ☺) a 'dimension' is simply a measurement that cannot be 'derived' or 'infered' from any or all of the other measurements taken of a 'thing. For example: People can be 'measured' (maybe 'described' would be a better word) in terms of age, height, weight, hair color, and eye color. But even knowing all of these things would give you not a clue as to what their 'IQ' was. And, right there, you have a 6-D being.

In the world of science, it is often convenient to speak of things in terms of their defining characteristics and then use each of these defining characteristics as a 'dimension' which describes that thing.

One frequently hears people speak of time as the 'fourth dimension'. And there are other 'fundamental' characteristics besides length, width, depth, and time. Things such as mass, charge, spin, color, flavor, charm, and strangeness (plus, it seems, a couple of new ones that have not as yet been named). What are these things? The are words that we use to try and describe some fairly abstract and exotic concepts. But you, as a language expert, should know that the sounds making up 'chair' cannot be sat upon. And that the symbols that make the written word 'chair' are merely an abstraction of 'chairness' and have to be tempered with all sorts of adjectives to describe a particular, unique chair. And it's the same in science. We use words in a very 'restricted' way so that it's (more or less) guaranteed that we will all mean the same thing when we say 'invariant group' or any of the other arcane terms we use.

HTH

Doug

Answer 3

are you talking about dimensions? just look up 5th dimension...