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Visualizing up to 10 dimensions
- Zarathu 17y agoHow many times is this going to appear on the front page of social bookmarking sites? Old.
- calcnerd256 17y agoNot just old; old and bad.
- eru 17y agoAs science it is bad. As a narrative (and flash video) it is not too bad. Though it should be treated like fiction and be seen on the same level as Scientology cosmology.
- calcnerd256 17y agoI think the problem then is that everything around it presents it as science fact (to those who don't know better).
- diiq 17y agoAww, man. I am disappointed. It completely ignores the important distinction between a temporal dimension and a spatial one; you might claim this little lie acceptable for pedagogical purposes, but to claim any isomorphism between this and the dimensions of string theory is balderdash.
- kqr2 17y agoDirect link to flash video: http://revver.com/video/99898/imagining-the-tenth-dimension/ http://revver.com/video/99898/imagining-the-tenth-dimension/
- yan 17y agoFYI, the 2D people "Flatlanders" thought exercise the video is using comes from one of the first sort of sci-fi books "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott Abbott [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
- Vitaly 17y agothe mix of the time, space, and 'possibility' dimentions is completely arbitrary and is not explained at all. There might as well just be 10 spacial dimensions, which this video doesn't help to visualize at all.
- nopassrecover 17y agoWell as I understood it the video highlighted that higher dimensions were about quantum implications (different possible universes) rather than anything spacial.
- diiq 17y agoIt is important to understand that the many-worlds interpretation makes no claims about where those worlds exist. The video proposes a heirarchical order to the universes --- a metaphysical filing cabinet. It labels them; it does not aid in their visualization. [Note that all ten of string theory's dimensions would need to be reproduced in each alternate universe --- not the other way around.]
- joubert 17y agoIsn't string theory unscientific?
- ntownsend 17y agoYes and no. There are currently no known ways to verify it epxerimentally, but, on the other hand, the theory has recently used to explain high-temperature superconductivity: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090706113702.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090706113702.ht...
- jerf 17y agoNo, no, no. This blasted video (which just won't stay down) is anti-knowledge. It leaves the viewer with the satisfied feeling that they understand something deep and profound, while actually leaving them less informed about mathematics and physics simultaneously, in that it builds in resistance to the actually true and correct ideas. This has no value whatsoever, not even to attract people to the field, since the field it is espousing does not exist. In fact, it has less than no value. It is one of the most pernicious memes of this type I have ever seen. Watch this video, if only so you know what sort of total bullshit you need to watch out for if you try to learn about real physics or math. See that feeling it gives you, that feeling of understanding? Train yourself to run from it, because it's wrong.
- I_got_fifty 17y agoInsightful. I do wonder what you think of http://www.dimensions-math.org/ http://www.dimensions-math.org/ it seems to be more math focused, but is it too just techno-babble with pretty pictures?
- diiq 17y agoIt's good stuff, but it never gets around to talking about higher dimensional space; it feels unfinished.
- helveticaman 17y agoSo it's fake yet satisfying. Would it be like porn for the intellect, then?
- tel 17y agoIf something claims to be scientific but leaves you with less questions than you came in with it's lying.
- eru 17y agoI agree. And they can't even pronounce Möbius strip. (The narrator says Mobius strip.)
- jacobolus 17y agoA mathematician and a physicist are sitting next to each-other in a lecture about 11-dimensional space. The physicist scrunches up his nose, tilts his head to one side, and generally appears confused, while the mathematician smiles and nods as the lecturer writes equations on a blackboard. At some point, the physicist turns to the mathematician and asks, “How can you possibly follow this? I can’t visualize more than 3 or maybe 4 dimensions!” To which, the mathematician replies “Oh, it’s easy. Just visualize n dimensions, and then set n = 11.”
- rincewind 17y agothis sounds a bit like timecube