Okay, I'm pretty sure this applies to some most of the three categories listed in the bit above.
Are there different dimensions, as in spatial dimensions and chonological dimensions? By this I mean the first dimension of space is basically a straight line, just going forward without end. We go through time in a similar way, going forward without end. However, in spatial dimensions, we can go sideways, and up and down. Are chronological dimensions similar? If they are, if we traveled 'sideways' through time, wouldn't we arrive in a different world at the same time ( also the same year and everything) we left the one before?
2007-06-08 19:14:00 · 12 answers · asked by The Doctor 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I know time only goes in one direction at one second per second, but what i'm talking about is basically the chronological version of switching lanes on the interstate.
2007-06-08 19:28:04 · update #1
what i am speaking of isn't exactly a multiverse... It's more like one universe with billions of different parts that start exactly the same in size, shape, and distance between objects, and end differently.
2007-06-08 19:36:03 · update #2
No, there is no reason to believe that there are extra time-like dimensions. It is very difficult to construct a space with more than one time-like dimension meaning more that more than one dimension has a positive coefficient in the interval: ds^2 = dt^2 - sum of dxi^2.
2007-06-11 05:04:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is as yet no complete string theory. It's generally considered that such a theory will require 11 orthogonal dimensions, only one of which is temporal. All the rest are spatial. It's way too early to ask your question. It's like asking who will be the next world champion in zingball, when the sport has yet to be invented.
2007-06-08 19:20:57 · answer #2 · answered by Frank N 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
11 dimensional string theory, (and 26 dimensional M theory), has not produced anything.
It is possible that the extra 7 dimensions of space in string theory, (that are not perceived), are mathematical deception. This mathematical deception first appeared with 5 dimensional Kaluza-Klein Theory.
String theory is possibly deception, derived from adding dimensions of space to the already existing 3 dimensions of space one dimension at a time at 90 degree angles to the previous dimension.
That string theory is possibly invalid is stated at the end of the wikipedia article on string theory.
2007-06-09 03:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we lived in one dimension, we would probably have no idea how to imagine what it would be like to travel in two or three. Horizontal and vertical would simply be outside our experience. Just as we now cannot really imagine what it means to travel in four spatial dimensions. So I think there is no way to imagine what it means to travel horizontally in time or what it would mean to have a second time dimension.
2007-06-16 18:25:19 · answer #4 · answered by wheelintheditch 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, i dont think its possible to go sideways in time. I think time s unidimensional.
But I guess, if somehow some yrs later, v go sideways in time, v would reach a different world which s running parallelly acc to time with ours.
must say, this s a really amazing concept.. i ve never heard of this before.. its really interesting. Thanx!!
2007-06-08 21:59:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reality is less forgiving, and less entertaining, than science fiction. For the moment, barring the presence of obscenely large, high density masses, time heads but one direction at a rate of one second per second.
2007-06-08 19:22:27 · answer #6 · answered by TSSA! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. time is one weirdass helluva concept. in some ways it is a little bit curved, although still one dimensional, but we can still only go back and forth. the only way to change our speed through time, according to good old Al Einstein, is to increase velocity in space. for example, according to the theory of relativity, if you fly around the world in an airplane, then time goes by faster by an extra few tenths of a second (meaning it is slightly later than it feels). but it's all pretty sketchy.
2007-06-08 19:25:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ok, forgive me if i'm wrong, but this sounds alot like the whole 'parallel universe' concept. as in an infinite number of universes, co-existing simultaneously. it's a concept used extensively by science fiction writers, and has been postulated by a number of physicists the attached wikipedia article is informative, i hope it's what you were referring to.
2007-06-08 19:27:40 · answer #8 · answered by tuxey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time does not move. Time is the interval between events.
2007-06-13 02:51:50 · answer #9 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Buddy, I think it is time you put down the weed joint.
I am getting a lot of thumbs down. Okay keep smoking it then, I don't want to cause offense!!!!
2007-06-08 19:16:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋