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To: DoughtyOne

You described 3 dimensions of space with 1 dimension of time. The idea is to describe 4 dimensions of space without using time, or even saying the word time.


19 posted on 05/25/2006 1:54:21 PM PDT by avacado
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To: avacado

The way I see it, in our current paradigm you can remain stationary in the x, y, or z axes while moving on any of the others. The trick in describing the fourth dimension is to remain stationary in the x, y, AND z axes while moving in yet another axis. To me, that means that the axes themselves are moving through yet another space, so in reality, by positing anything outside of the three dimensions with which we're familiar, we're necessarily positing yet another three within which our space moves, and so on, without touching time.


25 posted on 05/25/2006 2:02:10 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living insult to Islam since 1959.)
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To: isaiah55version11_0
VIZZINI :Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I'm not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.


MAN IN BLACK:You've made your decision then?


VIZZINI : Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows. And Australia is entirely peopled with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me. So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.


MAN IN BLACK:Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

28 posted on 05/25/2006 2:05:36 PM PDT by isaiah55version11_0 (For His Glory)
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To: avacado

Okay. That is probably the correct format. What I would suggest then, is a single cube with a forward and reverse. While forward and reverse would describe what I'm trying to say, it would probably be best to use the term jump forward or jump back.


61 posted on 05/25/2006 3:19:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Botulism: Doing the same thing over and over and over, yet expecting a different outcome.)
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To: avacado
"The idea is to describe 4 dimensions of space without using time, or even saying the word time."

Movement of being from one dimension to another may only be done absent restraints of time, thus absent physical matter. It's a realm, a condition of being many call the "spiritual world". This state is referred to in this verse of scripture: "That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past."

110 posted on 05/26/2006 2:59:17 AM PDT by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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