/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8636203
You exist in the 3rd, so start with visualizing the 4th dimension, try pointing a finger at it. No matter which direction you point you are correct, it is temporal and could be considered past or present. So whichever direction you point would be absolutely correct. You just don't see large expanses of time all at once, as easily as if by moving your head around. As a 3rd dimension being you are a "slave" to that 4th dimension.

I can't describe what it would feel like to be a 4th dimension being other than just saying you could walk through time as if it were a dimension, but not necessarily able to see every bit of it at once, similar to how we can't see through obstacles in the 3rd. So as a 4th dimensional being, the 5th dimension would be your temporal dimension, the one you're a slave to, the one you perceive as the passage of time. The 5th could be thought of as all versions of a time line - like say the multiverse - but you'd not be able to step through them or change them, but you'd be aware of the different ones and could view them without interaction. Just like how that one guy in MiB was who could view the different realities for a moment, could guess the likely possibilities, but couldn't tell you which one it was gonna be, but once it happened he knew which 5th dimensional multiverse reality you were on. I realize if you haven't seen that movie it must sound weird.

Applying this to a 2nd dimensional being in flat land, you'd be stuck inside your computer monitor. Your temporal dimension would be 'depth' the one you are a slave to, and would experience your monitors "refresh rate" as time pulsing along into the depth dimension, stacking monitor after monitor right? Your own personal refresh rate could be sped/slowed as you approached the speed of light relative to other flatlanders. For you to jump into the 3rd you'd have to have a refresh rate greater than the speed of light or infinite monitors sticking out into "your" room.