[ExI] infinity

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 13:53:13 UTC 2021


I just don't think that evolution prepared us to think in more than three
dimensions - at least visually.  You can talk about 3d as a shadow of a 4d
thing but that just doesn't compute!   bill w

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 11:36 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *..*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> >…Think four dimensional, Spike?  I could not find that in Wikipedia.
> Oops, actually, I did.  My brain is too old for that kind of thinking, so I
> guess we can leave this topic for good.  bill w
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> It is a mind bender.  The big bang model makes it sound like the universe
> started at a point and exploded for some reason, spraying matter out into
> empty space, but that isn’t really what it is saying.  We aren’t inside a
> 3D sphere so much as we are on the three-dimensional surface of a 4
> dimensional hypersphere.  For some reason, the hypersphere is expanding,
> which means the 3-dimensional space on the hypersurface is expanding, which
> is why stuff seems to be going away from us.
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> Note I am not claiming to understand it, but doing the math helps, just as
> calculus helps the physics student.
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