RQ wrote: Well, let's start with the givens... Theoretically points do not exist in our dimensional totality. There is at least 1 dimension of motion... Pretty much it...
RQ wrote: So how do we know that we live in a 3D universe. Simple there is gravity. Gravity gives us the perspective we need, without which we might think that we live in a 5D universe, since it pulls us down in only one direction of motion giving us the first dimension of motion.
RQ wrote: Now want to believe that we exist (I don't think Descartes was right when he said that "I think, therefore I am" because you need "to be" to be able to think, but anyway...)so all the other dimensions would have to contradict our existence...
I guess we can only exist if they don't, and they if we didn't, kinda like war of the worlds.
RQ wrote: But this couldn't possibly be true if all of our dimensional universes were idle of each other. Now if Fred didn't exist to Bob, and vice versa, this wouldn't even become a problem because there would be no 3d dimension in Fred's world to compare his infinitely small squares to there wouldn't be this mumbo jumbo. However the problem is that there couldn't possibly be a 1st dimension, because all dimensions are independent from each other by definition (since all perpendicular motions are independent from each other) and therefore this would prove to the nonexistence of Fred's and everybody's except pointpeople's first dimension.
RQ wrote: If Fred were to say that was true he would create a paradox. This would mean that we don't exist as well. Now this couldn't possibly be true, unless we don't, but let's assume we do. How about a proof that Fred can have a 1st dimension. Well each lesser dimension would have to be infinitely smaller than its higher dimension.
RQ wrote: 2. Gravity can exist in all dimensional universes, but it is what gives us a perspective... Perhaps maybe this isn't a very good or meaningful point.
RQ wrote: 4. I'm trying to say that if Fred were in Bob's universe then his 2D world would have to not exist, since to a 3D world, his world would have to have no z dimension and therefore no existence since x times x times 0 makes 0 volume. If Fred were to exist since 2 dimensions do exist for 3 to be able to make space, then that would make us non-existent. Maybe the dimensions being independent has nothing to do with it.
RQ wrote: 5. Yes, I did mean to say that for us to be able to exist, we would have to solve the paradox with the fact that if 2 dimensions alone cannot exist then how could they be incorporated?
RQ wrote:Aale de Winkle mentioned somewhere that Infinity times 0 = -1 since on a graph, two perpendicular slopes when multiplied make -1, just twist the graph so that it falls right on x/0 times 0. And if x/0 times 0 =-1 then 0/0=-1. Now this would mean that 0/0= all numbers since we just divide each side by any number and get 0/0.
RQ wrote:0/0 doesn't just equal 1... it equals all numbers!
RQ wrote:well 0/0 does equal to all numbers, just like x^2=49, makes 7 and -7 equal in that respect, although they are just the possible values for the equation...
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