We find it very hard to conceptualize past the first 3 dimensions of nature, i.e. length, width and depth. Well not really; we are also well aware of the 4th dimension which is none other than time itself. We don't necessarily think of time as a dimension for, we cannot influence time as directly as for example squeezing a ball. The 4th dimension is as much as what the human brain can comprehend for we live in a 4 dimensional world. However there exists a 5th dimension which forms the entire basis of what a select few scientists in the world work on every day - the field of Quantum Mechanics (which Albert Einstein himself refuted as being "unrealistic" given its complex nature). The presence of a 5th dimension would basically mean that for every action that we perform we follow an independent path in the 5th dimension, i.e. every time each one of us make a choice be it our own or influenced by chance or by others, we forge a different path in the 5th dimension. The 6th dimension extends this idea to refer to the possibility of moving between states, i.e. moving from one point in the 5th dimension to another immediately. What this effectively means is that at any given instant in time (i.e. the 4th dimension), there exists an infinite number of parallel worlds representing each possible action in the real world. This assumption is also the basic concept behind the Schrodinger's Cat experiment. As described in Wikipedia:
Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If a Geiger counter detects radiation then the flask is shattered, releasing the poison which kills the cat. Quantum mechanics suggests that after a while the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not a mixture of alive and dead.
An excellent presentation on how to conceptualize the 10 dimensions of nature is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjsgoXvnStY and I would highly recommend that you go through this extremely well presented narration. There is also a book by the same folks on the Tenth Dimension whose website is http://www.tenthdimension.com
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I don't understand why everyone want to visualize high dimensions! They exist. Believe me. If you are ready to generalize 1x1=1, 1x2=2,..., to 1xN=N, then why can't you generalize unit vectors.
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Even people who get lost in high dimensions don't try to visualize it. If you visualize, you aren't going to find your way.
Hi Prashant, thank you for your comments on my project and my animation. This has been a real labor of love for me, and I'm thrilled that more and more people are coming around to embracing the way of visualizing reality that I've proposed. I'm posting a link to your entry at the tenth dimension blog (www.tenthdimension.com/blog) and I would invite anyone interested in seeing more discussions about this way of imagining the extra dimensions to visit my blog or my YouTube channel, which is at www.youtube.com/10thdim
With best regards,
Rob Bryanton
Actually Schrodinger's cat is a demonstration of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. It is a clear way of showing that the act of observation of a phenomenon affects the phenomenon and therefore the results are inherently inaccurate.
The instant we try to find out whether the cat is alive or not we are disturbing the box and thereby affecting the outcome.
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