I'm sure there are pro physicists who would laugh at me right away and tell the real truth about dimensions, but nobody likes those people anyway.
Inspired by this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxieS-6WuABlabla flatland blabla. But does the second dimension really exist as we imagine it?
What if we would throw it on another wagon, and imagined dimensions like the following:
We are in the first dimension, as we have no visual indication there are dimensions lower than us. 2D does not exist, if you try to make 2D, it will always be 3D. Atoms are 3D. A dot is 3D, even though infinitely small, if something has 0 width, 0 length and 0 height, it still has the properties of width, length and height merely because it exists in a 3D world. The 2D concept in reality doesn't make much sense to me.
But we can go up in dimension. We know that we can move, and therefore move through the 3rd dimension which we from now on call the 1st dimension. So what we perceive as time is actually now the 2nd dimension. We move through time, but always forward, though with various speeds. We can not go back in time whenever we want.
I do not believe 1D and 2D exists as dimensions one could move through. Flatlanders can not move. They are smudged along the original "1st" (not space) and "2nd" (not time) dimension, but do not find themselves in the stream of time like we do. But there is a repeating pattern. We start with a dot, then draw a line (1D) then a square (2D) then a 3 dimensional object (3D). We could see this 3 dimensional object as a dot again, as visible in the youtube movie. It is where one point on the square folds towards the other, and how we used to imagine "The quickest way from A to B". Make a fold in the paper and pierce a hole. But it doesn't end with that. You should imagine also that there is not just one fold. There are infinite folds. The square crumbles into itself as it connects all possible positions towards all possible positions, into one infinitely tiny dot (this is also much fun to visualise with a piece of paper, and then throw to your teacher's head :D). So 3D becomes 1D. When smudged 3D space as a line, we have something that is also known as a timeline. The ball of paper flying towards your teacher's head.
Now back to the original assumption that 1D is space, 2D is time. Since 1D, space, is a dot, and we denied the existence of a line as 2D, we shouldn't time call 2D then, since time is a line of the previous dimension. Time is merely a means of "travelling" through the 1st dimension, not necessarily a dimension itself. What then really happens is that we are smudged along the timeline. But if the timeline is a depicted line and a means of moving, what would the square then be?
A timeline smudged over another length like a square would seem close to the tree of possibilities. Here we got every possible situation of every point in time in a nice square. But we also denied the existence of 2D squares as dimension, so the tree of possibilities is not a dimension either. It is just a means to make variations in the timeline.
An interesting effect is that we can barely interfere with the flow of time, but we cán (or so we experience) interfere with the flow of possibilities quite easily. We must move from left to right over the square of possibilities, but can change our position to up or down by the choices we make.
Imagine a cone where you are a little ball on top. Gravity will pull you down, it is the flow of time, you can not go up. But you can go around the cone however you please. Furthermore, the faster you go around the cone, the slower you will fall down towards the end. So making choices slows down time it seems. Is this odd? I think not. For to make choices, you have to move. The faster you move, the more possibilities you trigger. It is not the kind of possibilities one makes during his life. It is the possibilities of triggering quantum effects with your actions. If you move, you have a bigger chance of hitting particles and generate an effect. If you move aplenty, you trigger more effects. Could this be related with slowing down in time while speeding up?
Now we end up with the 3rd dimension. And like 1D and 2D, 3D is a dot again. It is where the square folds into itself. All possibilities of every point in time merges into all other. It is there where time travelling is possible. If you travel in time, you travel into possibilities as well. This I perceive as the whole of our universe. Get behind that wall and you're in our newly defined 3rd dimension.
It doesn't stop there, but the rest is visible in the movie. This story was meant to give a different insight into dimensions, not to develop a different theory. Essentially we all mean the same, but it is the mainstream conditioning on one perception (flatland) that makes us blind for other insights. Your opinions are appreciated
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Thanks for reading!
