There are a total of four known dimensions - width, height, length and time. Do you think that there may be more dimensions out there, and possibly one of them be what we call today a Spiritual dimension? Should we not be too fast excluding God from the picture.
2007-09-17 08:10:42 · 16 answers · asked by Dr. Timmy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
True - many people think God must exist beyond the
dimensions of space and time, that He created them.
2007-09-17 08:15:09 · answer #1 · answered by Nickel-for-your-thoughts 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Bible does speak of God as being too large to be contained by the universe and existing outside of our linear time.
As I understand, there are at least 2 time dimensions and something like 12 or more spatial dimensions (sorry, been a while since I read Elegant Universe).
2007-09-17 15:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by Tim 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) Time is not "the fourth dimension". Time may be considered A fourth dimension. In relativity, tensors use it as a component in the four-vector, and people who are poorly trained in the subject (or, more likely, got their training in physics from Star Trek) tend to think that's the end of it all. It isn't.
2) General relativity indicates that the universe we're in is actually 11-dimensional. There are timelike dimensions, of which there is one, and spacelike dimensions, of which there are 10. This one I won't go into, for obvious reasons. Take a look at Misner, Thorne and Wheeler's book Gravitation for details.
Sorry - certain errors in basic physics just get under my skin. Please continue without me.
2007-09-17 15:15:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You might want to update your knowledge a bit. Math has mapped around 200+ dimensions...
While God is not totally excluded, like all things in science, if there is no evidence or a need for it for the theory to work, it is considered of no import. So we could say that hundreds of invisible monkeys help make gravity work, but there is no evidence and the gravity has no need for monkeys to explain how it works.
2007-09-17 15:18:15 · answer #4 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There may be other dimensions that we can not observe. If there is a 'spiritual dimension', it's irrelevant unless we interact with it. There's certainly no evidence of a spiritual dimension that we observe.
2007-09-17 15:26:49 · answer #5 · answered by wondermus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are exactly 373,248 physical dimensions that make up our Universe. (I won't bore you with the quadratic math) Time is not a dimension, it is a perception of causal events and none of the dimensions are spiritual in nature.
I have the answer to life the universe and everything.
The truth is there is no answer.
The real mind blower is there is no question!
2007-09-17 15:18:34 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There can be more than 4 (see string theory). But they are dimensions of spacetime. You can't just call one of them "spiritual". A dimension of spacetime isn't a place you can go to.
2007-09-17 15:13:43 · answer #7 · answered by murnip 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Defining "time" as a dimension is a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept. Some do it as a useful expedient, but it is nothing more.
2007-09-17 15:13:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No.
I think this "Spiritual dimension" would actually be a separate reality, like a different plane of the astral realm.
2007-09-17 15:13:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
More than 4? There are only 3, there is no 4th dimension for crying out loud.
2007-09-17 15:16:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
String theory uses 11
M Theory and Supergravity use 12.
None of them are spiritual.
2007-09-17 15:13:49 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋