Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Why is space three-dimensional?
Phys.org ^ | 3 May, 2016 | Lisa Zyga

Posted on 05/05/2016 6:53:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-133 next last
To: tinyowl

I don’t think you are a bad person. Probably just a little overexposure to some Dark Matter.

If you don’t glow in the dark like the rest of us I am sure that is the cause.


41 posted on 05/05/2016 7:36:43 PM PDT by disndat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Time is a good thing... It keeps everything from happening at once.

Mark


42 posted on 05/05/2016 7:37:28 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: make no mistake

The TARDIS missed that dimension searching for Danny.


43 posted on 05/05/2016 7:42:13 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: lafroste

“There are 5 dimensions. (I’m serious)”

Here’s the Fifth Dimension:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZcA3kiaQb0


44 posted on 05/05/2016 7:43:04 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: Arlis

Try chasing time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X9HsA5cbM8


45 posted on 05/05/2016 7:43:25 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: MarkL

Time is a bubble in a bubble universe. It is happening instantaneously. It is our weakened perception that makes it seem linear.


46 posted on 05/05/2016 7:44:06 PM PDT by disndat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

It’s simple really. It’s because a body in motion tends to stay in motion until acted upon by an external force.


47 posted on 05/05/2016 7:44:20 PM PDT by TruthBeforeAll
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: who_would_fardels_bear
"Can anyone explain to me how there can be a non-integer number of dimensions?"

Google "fractals."

How long, exactly, is a shoreline?

48 posted on 05/05/2016 7:45:38 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: skr

On a physical plane, 4 dimensions are enough (time in particular as the 4th one).


49 posted on 05/05/2016 7:45:58 PM PDT by odds
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Larry Lucido

It must have been hard to get from place to place, what with all the jumping you would have had to do.


50 posted on 05/05/2016 7:47:35 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Be back bump


51 posted on 05/05/2016 7:47:47 PM PDT by thinden
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MV=PY

Twice as long as a byline.

A longshoreman told me it was so.


52 posted on 05/05/2016 7:48:10 PM PDT by disndat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: disndat
"Twice as long as a byline. A longshoreman told me it was so. "

I believe him!

53 posted on 05/05/2016 7:51:59 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: lafroste
"..There are 5 dimensions. (I’m serious).."

Please defend and explain. Somebody else said 20, which is 4 times as awesome, so you're sorta handicapped right out of the gate.

54 posted on 05/05/2016 7:53:55 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: disndat

I appreciate your words. I know I don’t glow in the dark. Maybe I am good person after all. You’ve given me real hope. I’m going to go out and beat an elderly person.


55 posted on 05/05/2016 7:54:06 PM PDT by tinyowl (A equals A)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: Popman
H2O...three molecules...CO2....Three molecules...

Those are 3 atoms that make up 1 molecule, but...

56 posted on 05/05/2016 8:00:01 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: who_would_fardels_bear

“If the number of dimensions was approximately three, might there have at one time been pi dimensions? “

Look up Peano curves. Then check back in a couple days.


57 posted on 05/05/2016 8:00:59 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (wrote Harry Reid.s only biography www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
Seriously, dimensions are a property of the mind, a passing illusion experienced by an illusion. There are no 'dimensions' 'out there' because there is no 'out there', nor is there 'in here'. There is no inside, no outside, no distance, no time.

This is using a tape measure to measure itself. It is only 'it is', and even that is a lie.

58 posted on 05/05/2016 8:01:02 PM PDT by tinyowl (A equals A)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Odd that a scientific journal would still be stuck in just four dimensions when matrix string theory says there are 11


59 posted on 05/05/2016 8:03:20 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: exDemMom

Or might mean you get “there” faster.


60 posted on 05/05/2016 8:04:58 PM PDT by dhs12345
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-133 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson