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I think you can have a 3-dimensional spectrum.
by rmwaite 3y ago
I think you can have a 3-dimensional spectrum.
- godelski 3y agoI mean it can have n-dimensions. It's just common to discuss 1-d because we place things on a 1-d axis, not because the word itself means 1-d. Like political spectrum often refers to left vs right, but it can also refer to authoritarian vs anarchism. Really it just means a continuous function, there is no strict definition that this needs to be 1-d and that would be a weird thing to do in math. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum
- hinkley 3y agoOnly the social sciences section of that mentions anything greater than 1-d
- hinkley 3y agoSocial Sciences introduced the concept of a multidimensional 'spectrum'. I'm not a fan, and for the reason I more or less already stated: It conflates a multivariate problem with one having a single variable. The initial conditions affect success of any undertaking, and you're starting with your foot in a bucket. Newton and astrophysicists don't use it that way. They should have found a different word.