Thursday, October 18, 2007

Dimensions

As some people in my life know, I have been thinking about dimensions now for years. I think we have identified them incorrectly. We give no dimensions to a point; in other words, there is only a specific location in space. One dimension is assigned to a line and this dimension is merely the distance, and hence movement in one direction, between the zero dimensional points. Hmmm. Two dimensions for a place so then you can have more than one line and you get the first ability to move but only in two directions. Three dimensions allows the movement in all directions. So most of the dimensions can be viewed as allowing a point the ability to move. Physicists have added a fourth dimension of time.

But does movement have any meaning or relevance without time and mass? I don't think so. Time can be viewed as representing the changes in matter; at least that is how humans view it. We age therefore time is passing. Does movement have any relevance if there is nothing to move. I do not think with we are living in a four dimensional system but one that actually involves many more. If all movement truly stopped, then there would not be any matter Matter requires the movement of its tiniest particles. Are dreams in a two dimensional space?