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Reminds me of the Tralfamadorians from Slaughterhouse-Five. They are able to see in four dimensions so humans appear as fetuses at one end of the four-dimension

• imsaw 4y ago
  Interesting concept. I wonder if it's compared with spatial 3D space, then how large would the 4th dimension of time be if it were to fit the timeline of a human lifespan
  • kelseyfrog 4y ago
    A natural interpretation leads to time being very large and us moving very very fast through it. It's convenient to model our movement through space-time as occurring at the speed of light. Thus, the faster we move in space, the slower we move in time all the while the length of our space-time velocity vector is invariably c. We can then imagine 1 second of time being interchangeable with 299,792,458m.
    • skinner_ 4y ago
      ...which means that a Tralfamadorian would see an average human as a 6*10^17 meters long snake.