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| UglyDave |
Hi folks,
i remember someone telling me that there are 11 dimensions.
i know of 4:
- height
- width
- depth
- time
and the 11th = place where Streakfury is located :)
anyone anle to name the rest? had a wee look but no joy on the net!
David |
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| Mebot |
| Well the 5th Dimension had a top ten hit in the 1970's with their song - Age of Aquarius |
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| Orbax |
i remember there being some weird stuff about super gravity
The other 6 are called 'internal degrees of freedom' and are related to the number of fundamental symmetries present in the physical world at the quantum scale. The equations that physicists work with require these additional dimensions so that new symmetries can be defined that allow physicists to understand physical relationships between the various particle families. They think these are actual, real dimensions to the physical world, only that they are now 'compact' and have finite sizes unlike our 4 dimensions of space and time which seem almost to be infinite in size. Each point in 4 dimensional space-time has another 6 dimensions attached to it which 'particles and forces' can use as extra degrees of freedom to define themselves and how they will interact with each other. Do not confuse them with 'hyperspace' because the particles do not actually 'move' along these other dimensions. They are not 'spatial' dimensions, but are as unlike space and time as time is unlike space! |
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| Noctone |
| All I was able to discover was that sometimes movement in the 5th dimension is referred to as "ana-kata". Realistically, though, there aren't really any scientific names for the 7 dimensions beyond the normal 3 spacial ones that we know, and time. Even the common spatial ones are hardly used, since you can adjust the reference frame quite easily without changing the physics. |
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