Christians, Any Ideas Why Did God Decide To Create Man In The 3 D World And Not 4 D or 5 D?

Answer 1

Props for asking an original question on here...

God created us in the universe that we live in. The idea of 3 (or 4 or 5...) dimensions is a mathematical construct that is used to describe the universe we live in. Never confuse the mathematical model of the universe for the universe itself. That was Newton's primary error.

Peace to you.

Answer 2

I hope you don't mind that a non-Chritian inserts an opinion here.

You asked the wrong question.

You should have asked,
"Why are we not created to be aware of all the dimensions of the Universe?"

As far as structural, mechanical and electrical engineers and scientists are concerned, they are aware of more than three dimensions.

A dimension can be considered a degree of freedom. As in robotics and statistics, the number of degrees of freedom is the number of MUTUALLY INDEPENDENT ways you could affect the resultant.

There are the usual three dimensions of space. However, 3D space should be considered a subspace of a more generic dimension of translational space, rotational space and compression/stress space. Rotation is an independent dimension because you could rotate a point without the point moving translationally anywhere. Compression, rarefaction and/or stress are an independent dimension because you could apply compressive stress on a structure without rotating or moving it at all.

When you build a bridge, for example, you have to be aware of all the dimensions that combine together and their derivative dimensions - like torsion(rotational stress) shear(translational stress) being combinations of translational, compressive and/or rotational dimensions. Or fatigue or temperature - which are each combinations of time and the other dimensions.

Then there are scientists who could imagine no further, and rather than looking at already existent multitude of dimensions, to satisfy mathematical equations needing 10 or 12 dimensions invented micro universes called strings hoping that their micro existence would allow their degrees of freedom to be mutually independent from the degrees of freedom we normal humans live in.

Let's consider just the usual spatial dimensions, besides the more energetic or materialistic dimensions. We could say we live in 3D space whose three components are translational, rotational and compressive spaces. Each of these are themselves 3D. Therefore, depending if you see time as single dimensioned or three dimensional, you already have a ten or twelve fold dimension.

What is a dimension. Are there primary dimensions? Perhaps, your question hit the point precisely. Perhaps, your question meant, "Why are all the dimensions that we are aware of, they all seem to come as sets of three?" Like three primary colours, etc. This is a line of argument many Christians use as arguments for the existence of a primary trinity.

When I was young, I was asked to scour the book of Deuteronomy for the so called "ten commandments". I was advised to look for the most primary rules. I counted and counted and counted and came out with more than one thousand commandments. According to Jewish tranditions there are 613 commandments. To many Jews and Christians there are two primary commandments. However, that depends on the granularity and scope to locate the number of degrees of freedom.

For all we don't know, the events of the Universe actually take place in one continuous dimension and our human perception seeing parts of that monolith seem to see it as a multitude of separate dimensions. I enjoy giving the analogy of the Excel spreadsheet where the Creator is like a programmer - cheating the spreadsheet user into thinking there are two or three dimensions on a spreadsheet when there is only one continuous linear memory space. The Creator allocates space and time as necessary from a single bank of dimensional space. That Los Angeles does not actually exists until I decide to buy a ticket and fly from Maine to LA and the administrative assistants of the Creator hurriedly assemble up dimensional spaces that purports that LA does indeed exist.

There are not three primary colours. There is a continuum of colours but our eyes have three primary sets of receptacles and our brain intrapolate those colours into however many colour dimensions we wish to believe there is. Newton seems to have said there are seven primary colours.

Therefore, mathematicians might have had it wrong. A dimension is not actually a "degree of freedom" but a "degree of constraint" or "a degree of perceptive limitatation".

Answer 3

are you asking why we can't see the past and future?
I don't get the question really, as dimesions are a was of explaining how we observe the universe.
We may live in as many as 11 dimensions.

Answer 4

According to the supergravity theory or something, he created man in 11 dimensions, one of them being time, the others being spacial.

Answer 5

I don't know how many dimensions that God made us in. I know of three dimensions, perhaps four if I can count the spiritual dimension. But other than that, how do I know for sure how many there are?

Answer 6

To make something complex for the sake of complexity is mundane. Sometimes keeping it simple is the way to go.

Answer 7

He made it perfect, he did it best.
that answer your question?