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How does multidimensional time work?
I've been reading journals and articles and have been going on academic websites that explain it but I still don't understand this.
Please /sci/, I need to know. I've been thinking about this nonstop for 2 weeks now and it's driving me crazy.

>> No.9293061

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick_rotation

>> No.9293080

>>9293055
Take your favorite theory. Change the metric signature to (2,2) and work things out for yourself.

>> No.9293223

>>9293080
>brainlet needing someone else to come up with theories

Derive the universe from first principles, but with multidimensional time, OP. It's trivial.

>> No.9293226

That's because you have no training in physics, OP.
You're getting caught up on something that has no real meaning.

>> No.9293253

>>9293223
>Dimensions
Haha you fucking humans and your insistence to use numbers to derive meaning.

>> No.9294717

Think of a sphere going through a 2D plane.

Someone living in that plane (let's say they're a square) would see a circle increasing then decreasing in size. In other words, they only see 2D slices of the sphere itself.

Now imagine a 4D hypersphere traveling through 3D space. Just like the circle, we would only see 3D slices of the whole thing. That is, we would see a 3D sphere that first increases then decreases in size.

We can think of time as a multidimensional object traveling through 3D space as it changes from one moment to the next.

I hope this helps.

>> No.9294744

>>9293055
If I'm not mistaken, we can only hypothesize how extra temporal dimensions would work, because unlike space, there is only 1 temporal dimensions, so it's only a guess as to how more would work. But hey, I'd be interested to be proven other wise as I'm curious as well as to how it would work.

>> No.9294752

>>9294717
Someone living in 2D wouldn't see anything.

>> No.9294764

>>9294752

Actually, they would probably see one dimensional lines on the same plane, assuming that their eyes are facing forward.

It's interesting to hypothesize what living in a 2D plane would be like.

>> No.9294798

>>9294764
I've always that that a 2d entities would be limited to the method with which his universe exists? Let me explain...

If we're talking about a 2d being, because our life does not seem to have naturally produced a physically 2d being, I'm going to use our own production of one: a video game character. Specifically, an NPC.

Now question is, what does the npc "see"? We see the whole map around the npc, and he exists of some sort within it, so what does he see?

A simple villager might not "see" anything. If he moves its in a specific pattern. He doesn't need to see to influence that. If he talks, it's because the player has activated him, again he simply needs to be able to recognize your input and respond. Not see.

Computer opponents must see of some sort. Therin lies your answer: what does the computer see?

>> No.9294853

>>9294752
>>9294798
Read Flatland.

>> No.9295616

>>9293253
>he has to analyze the algebraic structure defining the omniverse
>not just deriving it from the axioms that are clearly held

Lmao alienlets