On Mar 30, 7:36 pm, good...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 30, 2:38 pm, john <vega...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Mar 30, 3:57 pm, "wugi" <b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > <good...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > It's geometry. You find the point in the center of the lower
> > > > dimension, and extend outward in a new direction.
> > > > There is more space in the 4th dimension. This is geometry. 0,
1, 2,
> > > > and 3 dimensions are geometry, so I do not see why the 4th
dimension
> > > > should not be geometry as well. I see no reason to say the fourth
> > > > dimension is time. There should be an infinite number of
geometric
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> > > There are many ways to conceive 4D: with a 4th space axis, with a
time axis,
> > > with 2 complex variables...
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> > > > dimensions. I learned this in part by reading the book Flatland
by
> > > > Edwin A. Abbott. There is also a book called Spaceland by Rudy
> > > > Rucker. But I myself found the points to figure out exactly where
the
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> > > See his pagehttp://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/
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> > > > 4th dimension is and should be.
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> > > You found a principle, amongst many, not the actual points
themselves :-o)
> > > It's more fun to think of ways to represent them anyhow graphically,
in 2D
> > > or 3D.
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> > No, I want to see you represent it
> > in 4D.
> > Oh, you can't?
> > That's because there only *are*
> > 3 flipping dimensions, you complete twits.
> > Flatland is when the Physics community's
> > brain flatlined.
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> But can you understand philisophically that the entrance to the fourth
> dimension would be in the center of the equilateral pyramid, just as
> the entrance to the third dimension is in the center of the
> equilateral triangle? There could mathematically be an infinite
> number of them - whether or they trully exist in reality, or not. Two
> zero dimensional points enclose the first dimension. Three one
> dimensional lines enclose the second dimension. Four two dimensional
> triangles enclose the third dimension. Five three dimensional
> pyramids enclose the fourth dimension. Six four dimensional
> superpyramids enclose the fifth dimension, and so on.
nooo..oo.o.o.o.ooo
There are three.
Three there are.
Are three there.
John
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