After all, instead of saying that something is at position x,y,z we can use polar coordinates involving radii and angles when that makes the math easier.
The best way I can figure is something like this: they say for example that basic particles have certain properties such as mass and spin. They say that spin really shouldn't be thought of as a particle spinning, but it is just a property that can be measured and fits into the laws of quantum mechanics.
I'm thinking that these extra dimensions are similar. They are not like length, height and width. They are just other properties that can vary and at some far future time may be able to be measured with particle accelerators the size of our solar system.
I work with databases and every field in a database is like a different dimension that entries can have: last name, first name, SSN, salary, etc. I'm thinking these extra dimensions are similar.
But that's just a guess.
“I work with databases and every field in a database is like a different dimension that entries can have: last name, first name, SSN, salary, etc. I’m thinking these extra dimensions are similar.”
OH NO!!! Do you mean the GDPR will also cause these dimensions to be completely scrambled with no trace to how they were before?????????
I’m a database person, non-database person probably won’t get that :)