• Question: Why is it impossible for us to imagine a 4d world?

    Asked by elmo97 to Andrew, Marianne on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      anon answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Hello. Check out these dudes discussing it in physics forums….

      http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=25004

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      Andrew Maynard answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Hi elmo97,

      I’m not sure it is impossible – some theoretical physicists have pretty warped imaginations, and can imagine a world with way more than 4 dimensions! But for most people, we make sense of the world through what we experience – and if we have no experience of something completely alien to us, we really struggle.

      One of the more interesting things about being human is that we are able to imagine things that go beyond the reality of our everyday experiences.

      Have you come across the “hypercube” by the way? It’s a way mathematicians try and explore the idea of four dimensions in three dimensional space.

    • Photo: Marianne Baker

      Marianne Baker answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Is it?!

      We live in one! Time is the 4th dimension.
      If you can imagine your house last year, there, you’ve done it 😛

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