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Are there more dimensions than x, y, and z?

Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 21:13:01 2020 No.12400621 View Reply Original Report

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Have they been proven beyond just math conjectures?

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Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 2020 21:15:09 No.12400632 Report

Quoted By: >>12400651 >>12401440

>>12400621
math has proven only 3 dimensions can exist

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Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 2020 21:15:33 No.12400633 Report

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>>12400621
No they have not been proven in real life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 2020 21:20:24 No.12400651 Report

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>>12400632
>math has proven only 3 dimensions can exist

Then what are all the "String Theory" people doing?

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Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 2020 21:23:13 No.12400662 Report

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>>12400621
I'm guessing you're a retard and referring to spatial dimensions. You should develop an intuition for a general definition of "dimension" i.e a simple case would be that the 5 senses can be mapped to 5 different dimensions.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 2020 21:25:46 No.12400667 Report

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>>12400621
Mathematical dimensions can go to any arbitrary number because there's nothing that says you can't.

Similarly, the number of physical dimensions you have can depend on the physical model you're working with, and will vary a lot because dimensionality really isn't as big a deal as you think.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 2020 21:27:08 No.12400671 Report

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>>12400667
>dimensionality really isn't as big a deal as you think.

Why not?

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Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 2020 21:27:41 No.12400673 Report

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>>12400621
A dimension is just the fact that some quantity can vary. Do you mean dimensions of space and time or dimensions in any physical model?

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Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 2020 21:30:44 No.12400688 Report

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>>12400662
so smell would be mapped to dimension 1 since you only have one nose and smells work on a scale from either stinky or good
sound would be mapped to 2 dimensions because you have 2 ears
sight is 3 dimensions because of up down left right bottom top - the spacial dimensions
taste is clearly 4 dimensions - sweet, sour, salty, bitter

touch on the other hand, I think could be infinite dimensions, because you can technically be touched everywhere. unless you're counting hot/cold/pain/pleasure/stickiness as the 5 measures, in which case I would argue you have 5 times infinity dimensions

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Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 2020 21:34:56 No.12400699 Report

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>>12400688
You can map points on you skin with polar coordinates.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Nov 2020 23:53:37 No.12401207 Report

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>>12400671
Dimensional reductions/ compactifications, etc.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Nov 2020 00:58:43 No.12401440 Report

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>>12400621
>>12400632
You can have as many independent variables to describe space as you want.

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