I’m aware of the hypercube/tesseract, notably that it’s shadow is our 3D object - which can be mindbending to try and wrap your head around.
Intuitively I’ve always understood it as the ‘moment’ is the slice of 4D. If you pause the universe with your magical TV remote, thats a 3D paused picture. Therefore a, let’s say a persons 4dimensional self would look more like a worm from their birth to their death and every slice would just be a moment of their life. Conceptualizing our 4D selves is admittedly beyond me and I don’t really find the drive in myself to attempt really. Maybe I just don’t have the stomach for conceptualizing myself as a worm.
Based of the perceptions that I exist at min in 3 + 1 and my mastery of the dimensions diminishes the high I go. Like throw some lines at me dawg, I got this shit all day. I can drop that linear algebra like a MOTHAFUCKA (💀 In my defense, I am a silly goose). We are incomprehensible to dot lives. Total mastery over it
2D? Graphing? I LOVE that shit! Let’s go! I can pop into and out of existence (explained easily enough in flatland). I am dancing in these parameters, not a god, but skilled enough to necessitate making it artsy to keep my interest, if that makes sense…? Like how Nietzsche couldn’t just write out Zarathustra, he had to make it a parable on parables, like the bible, and then in as much pentameter, cadence and alliteration he could agonize out of himself. Y’know: Prose.
We operate as engineers in 2D, designing reality
3D ok hold on a minute. In 3D we step back. We are field techs. Operators and witnesses. We don’t have the perspective to engineer the 3D, or even the language to relay the absolute knowledge that would be needed. Becoming an engineer of the 3rd dimension would mean we have cracked the teleporter, even if thats just as a very specific atomic 3D printer - the end product is the same. A teleporter (be it actual teleportation or CntlC+CntlNull+CntlV) is the same thing as a time machine. To teleport from where you are to a mile away, the speed of the earth around the sun, the sun’s speed around SagA*, the galaxies speed towards the Great Attractor all have to be quantified just so the coordinates are correct and you don’t materialize 55miles above Earth’s atmosphere with zero momentum - just enough time to see the planet speed away at 250,000mph before your brain shuts off from no oxygen. And coordinates like that necessitate 7 points. 6 to mark Height x length x depth and the 7th for the starting perspective. You know this. Fucking…Stargate.
We need 3 to accurately see 2D. We need for 7 to accurate see 3D. Can we extrapolate it would take 11 for 4D? Or would it be 15?
Thank you for writing all this out for me.
I’m aware of the hypercube/tesseract, notably that it’s shadow is our 3D object - which can be mindbending to try and wrap your head around.
Intuitively I’ve always understood it as the ‘moment’ is the slice of 4D. If you pause the universe with your magical TV remote, thats a 3D paused picture. Therefore a, let’s say a persons 4dimensional self would look more like a worm from their birth to their death and every slice would just be a moment of their life. Conceptualizing our 4D selves is admittedly beyond me and I don’t really find the drive in myself to attempt really. Maybe I just don’t have the stomach for conceptualizing myself as a worm.
Based of the perceptions that I exist at min in 3 + 1 and my mastery of the dimensions diminishes the high I go. Like throw some lines at me dawg, I got this shit all day. I can drop that linear algebra like a MOTHAFUCKA (💀 In my defense, I am a silly goose). We are incomprehensible to dot lives. Total mastery over it
2D? Graphing? I LOVE that shit! Let’s go! I can pop into and out of existence (explained easily enough in flatland). I am dancing in these parameters, not a god, but skilled enough to necessitate making it artsy to keep my interest, if that makes sense…? Like how Nietzsche couldn’t just write out Zarathustra, he had to make it a parable on parables, like the bible, and then in as much pentameter, cadence and alliteration he could agonize out of himself. Y’know: Prose.
We operate as engineers in 2D, designing reality
3D ok hold on a minute. In 3D we step back. We are field techs. Operators and witnesses. We don’t have the perspective to engineer the 3D, or even the language to relay the absolute knowledge that would be needed. Becoming an engineer of the 3rd dimension would mean we have cracked the teleporter, even if thats just as a very specific atomic 3D printer - the end product is the same. A teleporter (be it actual teleportation or CntlC+CntlNull+CntlV) is the same thing as a time machine. To teleport from where you are to a mile away, the speed of the earth around the sun, the sun’s speed around SagA*, the galaxies speed towards the Great Attractor all have to be quantified just so the coordinates are correct and you don’t materialize 55miles above Earth’s atmosphere with zero momentum - just enough time to see the planet speed away at 250,000mph before your brain shuts off from no oxygen. And coordinates like that necessitate 7 points. 6 to mark Height x length x depth and the 7th for the starting perspective. You know this. Fucking…Stargate.
We need 3 to accurately see 2D. We need for 7 to accurate see 3D. Can we extrapolate it would take 11 for 4D? Or would it be 15?