“we have no experience of 5th, 6th, 7th, etc, dimensions, and there is no way to verify them, it’s a dead end. At least until we mutate and develop organs that can “see” those dimensions.”
Another way is instrumentation. We can measure a lot of stuff we cannot see or hear or smell or touch.
The numbering of dimensions may be one of the paradigms that is going to have to revisited.
Among other things higher numbers has an implicit assumption of hierarchy—which makes sense for the first, second and third dimensions but does not seem to apply to time.
Many human blind spots are caused by the inability of language to adequately describe certain things.
“Another way is instrumentation. We can measure a lot of stuff we cannot see or hear or smell or touch.”
I suppose that’s a possibility, but I don’t think it’s a likely one. How do you design a camera that can look 90 degrees away from all 3 directions that we know? It’s as difficult to imagine as someone living in Flatland being able to design a camera to look up into the 3rd dimension. Even if it could be done, how could the data that instrument gathers even be sensible to us?
“Among other things higher numbers has an implicit assumption of hierarchy—which makes sense for the first, second and third dimensions but does not seem to apply to time.”
But that is sensible, since time is not a spatial dimension, so we wouldn’t expect it to follow that heirarchy.
“Many human blind spots are caused by the inability of language to adequately describe certain things.”
This is an even bigger blind spot, because you have to first be able to perceive something, or at least imagine it, before you can describe it. And we lack even those faculties when it comes to higher dimensions.