Comments on: Why Can’t We Visualize More Than Three Dimensions?

By: Nema Mansuri

Nema Mansuri — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:01:14 +0000

I disagree with the one post above! Saying that “time is the fourth dimension” is an objection to searching for a fourth dimension. Time is a known dimensions, like the first 3 dimensions of space, time is NOT an extra dimension. A fourth spatial dimension or a second temporal dimension would be the “extra dimensions”, things beyond what has been observed in universe.

By: Nema Mansuri

Nema Mansuri — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:52:20 +0000

The nature of extra dimensions may be different from our standard three dimensions. This difference can explain how extra dimensions may not affect people’s experience. There are two ways of having the extra dimensions different from the 3D. First, one or more of the particles you see in the known universe may not be able to propagate into higher dimensions. This would explain why we’re not able to move in the fourth dimension. Secondly, the extra dimensions may be compact. If they are SO tiny (hopefully not) would explain why us (macroscopic being) do not notice them. Nema

By: geraint

geraint — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:53:50 +0000

hey im into this stuff: 2dimensions could be our eyes as we have 2 eyes, the third could be our imagination-brain as the brain does prossess what we se and therefore we can get a perception. and without our eyes we wouldnt see any dimention to imagin or process.

By: Successful Researcher

Successful Researcher — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:09:01 +0000

Great post and great discussion!

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WebdePaylas.Net - Science News&Articles!!! — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:34:51 +0000

Why Can’t We Visualize More Than Three Dimensions?

Physicists and mathematicians who think about higher-dimensional spaces are, if they allow their interest to somehow become public knowledge, inevitably asked: “How can you visualize more than three dimensions of space?” There are at least three co…

By: S

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:43:25 +0000

I used to advocate using time and color (and sometimes a second time dimension) to aid visualizing additional dimensions, but found that this approach has severe limitations when I needed to compute Voronoi cells of lattices in 6 dimensions (because the dimensions use different units I can’t compare distances meaningfully… also rigid body transformations are difficult (try rotating from the time dimension towards the color dimension while preserving distances)). Eventually I got a bit of a “knack” for visualizing lattices in 6 dimensions. Hard to describe, though; it “looked” 3D, but weirder. It hinges on the lattice being highly symmetrical.

By: John

John — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:06:59 +0000

Hi there, Something that bothers me about the title of this article is that philosophers and psychologists have for centuries maintained that we can experience time as a dimension. Subjective time is known as the "specious present". See Time and conscious experience for an empirical description.

By: schriAlphi

schriAlphi — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:41:46 +0000

Perhaps if the atomic structures of the material that forms some hypothetical newly evolved cortex of the brain – if this atomic material were to contain an axis lying in a fourth direction; let’s say a .0000006 seconds into the future and .0000005 seconds into the past, and with particles at these distances, then information of four space might be able to be processed into perceptual interpretation mediated through the 4-D neurons of this cortex.

By: schriAlphi

schriAlphi — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:26:19 +0000

Perhaps if the atomic structures of the material that forms some hypothetical newly evolved cortex of the brain – if this atomic material were to contain an axis lying in a fourth direction; let’s say a .0000006 seconds into the future and .0000005 seconds into the past, and with particles at these distances, then information four space might be able to be processed into perceptual interpretation.