Today Kotaku featured this extremely interesting article on perceiving the Fourth dimension, They talk about a puzzle game called Miegakure coming out using 4D as a dynamic element, but I am putting this in off-topic because I want to talk more about the topic of The Fourth Dimension, not the game itself. Read the article for more info on the game.
The article is here, its a great read, and will probably make your brain hurt (in the trying to learn something your brain cant comprehend way) but if your too lazy/unmotivated to read it, I'll just post a passage from it summing up the idea of 4D, for discussion purposes.
Linky link (has lots of helpful videos for understanding 4D)
http://kotaku.com/5585099/the-man-who-will-bring-us-to-the-fourth-dimension
Concept of 4D explained through relationship between 2D and 3D
So I'm posting this, because to me at least, the topic of dimensions we can't comprehend/see is infinitely interesting. Some people think the 4th dimension is time itself, but if thats true what about the 5th and 6th dimensions? Could "God" exist in the 4th dimension? If we could enter the fourth dimension would we even know or see it?
P.S. I don't want this to turn into a religious discussion because I mentioned the possibility of a God existing in another Dimension, its just an example of a way science and religion have been connected through a concrete dynamic. I'm not saying I believe in God, or that he exists in the 4th dimension, its just a possible discussion.
Discuss!
The article is here, its a great read, and will probably make your brain hurt (in the trying to learn something your brain cant comprehend way) but if your too lazy/unmotivated to read it, I'll just post a passage from it summing up the idea of 4D, for discussion purposes.
Linky link (has lots of helpful videos for understanding 4D)
http://kotaku.com/5585099/the-man-who-will-bring-us-to-the-fourth-dimension
Concept of 4D explained through relationship between 2D and 3D
If you have a 3D object, say, a cube, you have something that you can slice. If you cut a horizontal slice into it, you have, essentially, defined a flat square, a 2D plane that exists within the cube. The Miegakure game presents the player with a key trick early on. Imagine that cube and that slice cut through it. Now imagine that cut being rotated inside the cube, rotated so that it no longer defines a horizontal cut but a vertical cut. The new slice and the original slice would have one intersecting line of substance in common.
Let's say that the first horizontal slice of the cube was the first world of Super Mario Bros. And let's say that, as Mario ran through the slice, the player could, at any moment, press a button that would rotate the cut through this cube. Mario's next step would not be on his Super Mario Bros horizontal slice; it would be up the new vertical slice. Mario would have smoothly jogged from one lovely 2D view of the world to one that cut into that view of the world at a right angle. Poor, flat Mario would never be able to zoom out and see the cube containing his worlds, but he would be able to explore its 3D space by running from one 2D cut of the world to the next.
Miegakure is all of that, but with the player's character exploring 3D slices of 4D.
Let's say that the first horizontal slice of the cube was the first world of Super Mario Bros. And let's say that, as Mario ran through the slice, the player could, at any moment, press a button that would rotate the cut through this cube. Mario's next step would not be on his Super Mario Bros horizontal slice; it would be up the new vertical slice. Mario would have smoothly jogged from one lovely 2D view of the world to one that cut into that view of the world at a right angle. Poor, flat Mario would never be able to zoom out and see the cube containing his worlds, but he would be able to explore its 3D space by running from one 2D cut of the world to the next.
Miegakure is all of that, but with the player's character exploring 3D slices of 4D.
So I'm posting this, because to me at least, the topic of dimensions we can't comprehend/see is infinitely interesting. Some people think the 4th dimension is time itself, but if thats true what about the 5th and 6th dimensions? Could "God" exist in the 4th dimension? If we could enter the fourth dimension would we even know or see it?
P.S. I don't want this to turn into a religious discussion because I mentioned the possibility of a God existing in another Dimension, its just an example of a way science and religion have been connected through a concrete dynamic. I'm not saying I believe in God, or that he exists in the 4th dimension, its just a possible discussion.
Discuss!
