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Time is a spatial coordinance of the fourth dimension. Discuss.

Discussion in 'Off-topic Discussion' started by Ruttigan, May 2, 2020.

  1. May 2, 2020 #1
    Ruttigan

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    To get to the first dimension from a point, you have to extend the point in a direction not contained within itself. Thus you get a line. To get to the second dimension, you have to extend a line in a direction that is not contained within it. Thus you get a plane. To get to the third dimension, you have to extend a plane in a direction that is not contained within the plane. Thus you get a cube.

    Doesn't it make sense then that to get to the fourth dimension, you have to extend a cube in a direction that is not contained within the third dimension? The only direction we know of that is not contained in the three dimensions that we live in is time. Time therefore must be a spatial direction of the fourth dimension.
     
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  2. May 2, 2020 #2
    brilliantidiot

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    Well there's the spatial 4th dimension, google tesseract.
     
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  3. May 5, 2020 #3
    desmondmiles

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    It wouldn’t necessarily be true to refer to time as a spatial dimension at all.

    Time as the fourth dimension is more of a mathematical artifact, and a way to put a label to it rather than a spatially existing thing. It would be more accurate to describe time spatially as two dimensional, and more specifically as an array because it has a theoretical start point and extends infinitely in a single direction, forward.

    @brilliantidiot is correct, the tesseract is the three dimensional representation of what the fourth dimension would look like. Spatially speaking, a dimension is defined as a side. A cube is a three dimensional object because from any point of view it has three visible sides, but in the fourth dimension, it would have four simultaneously visible sides
     
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