Hugh wrote:Well, our world might not be as drab as we think it looks. It might actually be quite different than we think we perceive it. We can't understand the physics of it completely as only being 3d, but if it has higher dimensions then it all makes sense.
Hugh wrote:Rather than the VRI being an indication that something that is "wrong", I think it is an indication that something is possible. Being able to "see our world from a different angle" certainly sounds like higher dimensions of it and ourselves are involved.
gonegahgah wrote:Well again we can consider what a 2D world would look like in our 3D world if a 2D person could turn into our 3D space. If it’s truly a 2D world then it would be so thin that once they turn into another 2D world space their original world would just disappear. They would not be in that space anymore and would also not see their original world anymore. The only thing they would have left over from their home orientation would be a single line. I guess being 2D they might see strangely morphing things moving through that single line when things do. But perhaps they wouldn't too because that line would be infinitely thin. We know in our world that the thinner something gets the more transparent it gets. So it is likely that they won't even see the rotational line left over from their world when rotating into a new 2D orientation in our 3D world.
gonegahgah wrote:The other interesting thing is will two 2D orientations that cross by a single line even interact with each other. Of course they have to. But that interaction would be of an infinitely small amount. Will that infitesimal amount even have any bearing on anything what-so-ever? Or would the interaction be so physically vague as to essentially make, near enough to, zero difference?
Also, what if only the starting 2D orientation has any form and when you turn into another 2D orientation in our 3D space you are essentially in void without even a ground to stand on anymore. Or would the 2D world somehow be part of a fuller 3D world where their 2D planet they are standing on is actually just part of a fuller 3D planet. There are the inherent problems of course about the difference in gravitational dissipation between different numbers of dimensions. Should the 2D person then experience 3D gravity in that case? Should we in 3D land feel 4D gravity if our 3D world is only one slice in a fuller 4D world?
Hugh wrote:Do we agree that a 2D being could see nothing around itself because it is looking along its plane “edge on” which is an infinitely thin 1D line which cannot be seen at all? If so, could a 4D being have a similarly limited 3D slice viewpoint and not see in full 4D? Would that 3D slice viewpoint be 3D, or would it be flat? I’m thinking that it’s 3D, and that it would consist of 3 perpendicular axes, X, Y, Z. That’s what our brain perceives around us, a 3D world consisting of 3 perpendicular axes. But if we were 4D, there would be an “edge on” aspect to our point of view, just like there is for a 2D being wouldn’t there be?
I wasn't saying that.I don’t think that a being of less dimensions could see more than us.
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