Comment on 4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real.

mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• EightBitBlood@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I spent a lot of time reading the time cube guys rants, and I’m like 90% sure they just never understood that if you rotate a cube enough on both axis it resembles a globe.

  He just didn’t understand that the earth has multiple times zones because it’s a big old globe, instead of 4 timecube-zones, because he couldn’t understand how surface area stretches over a globe, just a cube.

  Anyway, my two cents. Sometimes ranblinga are just a misunderstanding of basic scientific concepts.

  Sorry 2D /3D OP, but you’re a great example too.

  You want to claim 2D or 3D aren’t “real” when what you’re simply trying to say is that we, as humans, with limited and dull senses, are incapable of perceiving dimensions / universes that exist outside our own.

  No shit.

  That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. For that, it requires tools that exist outside our perception, but are universally sound. Aka Math.

  So yeah, we can prove other dimensions exist with math, but can’t perceive them because we’re meat.

  That doesn’t mean math is bullshit, it means you need to read philosophy enough to understand our existence isn’t centered on human perception.

  We’re monkeys that have harnessed self awareness to the point we can prove there’s a reality that exists outside our limited perception. But simply because that’s only doable through math, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

  It means your feeble human body is literally only capable of understanding extradimensionality because of the meat in your head, and it’s ability to comprehend math.

  You are meat. But math is universal. You are limited in perceiving the universe to what your meat has given you. So doubt your meat, not the math.

  It’s what the time cube guy should have done imo.

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