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I’m going to take the liberty to synonymize ‘dimension’ with ‘universe’, since the essential point of my article is focused on a single universe within a single dimension. Please ignore the multiple universes within a single dimension, as it is unimportant.
Our dimension, the 3rd in number, shifts on the plane of Space (or, for the layman, Distance). It also shifts on the Time plane as well, but we’ll get to that later. Just accept that our dimension is commonly accepted to shift on both Time and Space.
The Fourth Dimension, however, is Time. Does this mean that the Time dimension is integrated into our own, and that ours is merely a universe of Space? Is our realization of Time merely a figment of imagination? Not, so; if it were, we would experience only static Space. Of course, our consciousness would be as though frozen forever at one point, stuck like a bug in amber.
However, where would we be stuck? If there was no Time, then we could never have had a single point of Time on which we could be stuck. Our universe would then be trapped at the very beginning. For dramatic effect, I will accept the Big Bang theory briefly and say that our world would have never gone beyond the initial existence of a single mote of super-dense matter.
Truly, this has not happened and clearly could not, so Time as we experience it (the Time of the 3rd dimension) is obviously separate from the Time in the fourth dimension.
Why then two Times? And why must the Fourth Dimension be a dimension of Time?
All dimensions above the Zeroeth Dimension possess Time. Time can be calculated with velocity and direction, for which a dynamic effort must be present (‘dynamic effort’ = change, referred to as ‘dynamo’ from hence forth). In the postulated Zeroeth Dimension, there is no Space, only an infinitely small, infinitely dense point.
Hard to grasp? Let’s go down the line from our dimension.
The dimensional graph can be defined as the maximum number of lines between which is an angle measuring exactly 90 degrees. In our dimension, you can look at the corner of a cube to see the three lines that make up the corner. (In the second dimension, only two such lines exist, and they make up a flat right angle).
Our dimension consists of three directions in which light and matter may travel. The X plane, the Y plane, and the Z plane. X and Y are basic, and known to any with high-school level graphing abilities. Z is the ‘up’ direction, out of the flat paper. The Z direction gives us 3D objects such as a sphere.
In the Second Dimension, a sphere would appear as a circle, since there would be no ‘up’. The Second dimension is infinitely flat, like a cartoon, and there is no ‘up’. If you were an entity in the Second Dimension (I can’t even begin to imagine what sort of creature could exist there) You would see the entire world as a razor-thin line, living forever like a bug between two pages in a book (only worse, a squished bug still has a depth, the Second Dimension has none)
The First dimension has only one direction, so an entity within it would be able to see only in a tiny line, as thought he could see down two drinking straws to his left or right (or before and behind him, relatively). Any thing before or behind him (or to his left and right, relatively) would be invisible.
In the Zeroeth Dimension, there are no directions, so that lonely little point can see nothing, go nowhere and is nothing. The Zeroeth Dimension is Nothing.
That brings us back to the beginning.
As I was saying, there is no Space in the Zeroeth Dimension, and without it, there can be no room for velocity and direction, right? If so, the Zeroeth Dimension is suspended in stasis, and therefore there is no Time in it. For Time is relative, and without dynamo to time our watches by, there would really be no time.
Try it yourself. Get a box that is lit evenly inside it. Make sure no one will brush it, bump it or knock it over. Make sure the inside is perfectly smooth and featureless. Make sure no sound can penetrate it. Make sure the temperature will not dynamo.
Get in.
Time yourself for one hour, then get out. How accurate is your own timing? The only way would be for you to count the seconds, but it would also be flawed (timing by you heartbeat would not work, because after the first fifteen minutes claustrophobia will set in and subsequently increase your heart rate)
So Time is relative, and thus the Time as we know it in our dimension is different from the Time in the Fourth Dimension, thus, two Times. Our Time is relative to dynamic efforts in our environment, shifts in our thinking, and shifts in Space. If our Earth spun faster and faster, people would experience shorter days. If we were to replace our solar and lunar calendars with a unified stellar calendar, massive changes would take place.
The only Time that is perfect is in the Fourth Dimension. There, from the beginning of Time, a lonely little clock has been ticking. Were we to travel into that dimension, we would see truly how old the dimensions and universes were.
Or could we? Is there matter in the Fourth Dimension? That brings us back to the original question of Space in the Time Dimension.
Since our Time is relative, we would expect direction and velocity to govern Time in the Fourth Dimension, but that is not true. Our Third Dimension-restricted minds cannot grasp the concept of a pure and perfect Time, in a non-Space, static universe, yet ticking away none the less.
If this is true, then all Time in the Fourth dimension would exist as a single point, similar to the Zeroth dimension. And if that were true, then traveling into the Fourth Dimension would take you to all times, and you would simultaneously exist in eternity, or, at least, from wherever Time began to the present.
But is there a ‘Present’ in Time? Must it tick away exactly the Time of our universe? What if is was representing the Time of the Fourth Dimension? What is the Time of the Fourth Dimension? Does it stretch away in both directions like a number graph? Is it constantly looping, a circle of perpetual motion? What the heck drives pure Time?
I said it once, and I’ll say it again, we cannot grasp pure Time. Time as we know is not pure Time, it is an invention of Man to put notches into his life. We can study all we like, we’ll never find Time.
And if that is so, then Time of the Fourth Dimension must be limitless, unrestricted by anything at all. It is not connected to our dimension any more than ours is connected to the first or second. We do not receive inter-dimensional tourists into our world, and we will never travel into any other…unless we die.
After our death, do we transcend into the Fourth Dimension? And what about the Fifth? Do we live a perfect-time life in the Fourth and then transcend further into the Fifth? For those who believe in reincarnation, these would be some pretty sturdy theories with which it could be backed up, but I still don’t think it would work that way.
This article was meant for me to express some of my Dimensional ideas, but it only churned up more questions for me. Please, feel free to disagree, discuss or dimensionalize with me.
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