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Scientists Simulate Fourth Spatial Dimension In New Quantum Hall Experiments
Inquisitor ^ | January 8, 2018 | Lorenzo Tanos

Posted on 01/09/2018 8:32:05 AM PST by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin
Robert Heinlein wrote a short story on this subject in 1941.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22%E2%80%94And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House%E2%80%94%22

21 posted on 01/09/2018 8:50:44 AM PST by Simon Green
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To: blueunicorn6

22 posted on 01/09/2018 8:51:29 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: BenLurkin
I still don’t understand the difference between Quantum Hall and Huntz Hall.

And Monty Hall is strictly a 3(car)D guy.

23 posted on 01/09/2018 8:51:59 AM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward 5th Avenue, to be born?)
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To: Obadiah

Oh how I had the biggest crush on Marilyn McCoo back in the day.


24 posted on 01/09/2018 8:52:25 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

Not to mention Monty Hall


25 posted on 01/09/2018 8:53:01 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: from occupied ga

“Coded in the complexity of the structure “ is grant speak for we pretend. It is impossible to produce a higher dimensional object in a lower dimensional matrix.

Movies don’t move backwards. You can play the film in reverse, but time still goes forwards as we are not 4th dimensional.

But we can pretend that time is coded in the complexity of the structure, throw in some atoms and light and stuff and if it sounds way too complex to the senator to understand he will throw in other people’s money.


26 posted on 01/09/2018 8:53:03 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel
is grant speak for we pretend

Thanks for the translation. I thought it was simply bullsh!t

27 posted on 01/09/2018 8:56:56 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh, lord. I try to understand these things but I just cannot. Basically what I get out of this is they do a kind of mock up of the fourth dimension, time.

When the article said time is the fourth dimension and the other three are up or down, left or right, or forward or backward I count six. I guess they are counting in pairs?

Evidently two teams made two separate models of a fourth dimension?, one using really really cold atoms and the other using waves of light.

So in this fourth dimension it is thought maybe there is previously undiscovered directions of motion.

What really does that mean?

After that it was all downhill for me.

I need the fifth dimension to let the sun shine in.


28 posted on 01/09/2018 8:59:22 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: RegulatorCountry

I see what you did there.


29 posted on 01/09/2018 9:01:05 AM PST by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: BenLurkin

Here’s an animation of the non-quantum Hall effect.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Hall_Sensor.webm


30 posted on 01/09/2018 9:01:53 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: BenLurkin

Not related to string theory. String theory is matter, this is about the space that matter occupies.


31 posted on 01/09/2018 9:02:10 AM PST by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: dfwgator

Man, she was smokin’.


32 posted on 01/09/2018 9:02:16 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Beowulf9
"When the article said time is the fourth dimension and the other three are up or down, left or right, or forward or backward I count six. I guess they are counting in pairs?"

Each direction is not considered a separate dimension, but rather think of plotting a point in space: x, y, z... then t (a point in time) being the 4th dimension.

33 posted on 01/09/2018 9:02:18 AM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: BitWielder1

I could use a fourth dimension for storage.

...

Hillary uses it for emails.


34 posted on 01/09/2018 9:02:32 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: American in Israel

I think there might be a little more to it than that, and that although time has become known as “the” fourth dimension it really is at best “a” fourth dimension


35 posted on 01/09/2018 9:02:39 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: linear

Okay.


36 posted on 01/09/2018 9:03:21 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Simon Green

Narrator: The other half - where? The fourth dimension? The fifth? Perhaps. They never found the answer. Despite a battery of research physicists equipped with every device known to man, electronic and otherwise, no result was ever achieved, except perhaps, a little more respect for, and uncertainty about, the mechanisms - of The Twilight Zone.


37 posted on 01/09/2018 9:03:51 AM PST by freefdny
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To: blueunicorn6
If they find one more dimension, they can start a band.

The Beatles and Led Zeppelin only had four? Rush has three, so I say they should form up and cut an album.

38 posted on 01/09/2018 9:04:42 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Obadiah

Still married to Billy Davis after all these years.


39 posted on 01/09/2018 9:04:43 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: American in Israel
"throw in some atoms and light and stuff"

UNIVERSITY DEAN: Yeah, it has really cool lasers and stuff... can we get some money bro?

40 posted on 01/09/2018 9:05:14 AM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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