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Space, time, god, and sex (not really)!

Posted By: Smasher (c1282351-a.smateo1.sfba.home.com)
Date: 1/30/2001 at 11:11 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Of chance, and God (SiliconDream =PN=)

: I understand quite a few mathematicians think they can,
: actually. Perhaps half a dozen of Berkeley's math and
: physics department faculty believe they can. I'm still
: working on spatial dimension two, though.

: --SiliconDream

Our standard three dimensions are all pointing in directions 90 degrees away from each other, forming a line with one dimension, a square with two, and a cube with three. If you carried this out further into the fourth and/or dimension (unless you consider time a dimension, which I don't), I think the dimensions would fold back onto each other. In theory, this could allow someone with the proper knowledge and power to teleport, whether only a limited distance or anywhere in the universe, exactly like "tessering" in the "Wrinkle in Time" series.

On another line of thought, our three dimensions are rather arbitrary. Each dimension is 90 degrees from the other two dimensions (keeping in mind that the dimensions are never-ending lines as opposed to rays traveling in one direction), which, as I said before, forms a cube. But what if you thought of each dimension as 45 degrees away from each other? or 30? or 14.645? Why is 90 so special? I can't think of any reason why 90 degree dimensions are any more likely than any other dimensions. If this is true, then we could be living in any number of dimensions, from 1 (or maybe 0, though I don't think that works) to an infinite number. In that sense, we could easily be living in 4 or 5 dimensions.

And as for time: I believe that time is just a concept humans have created to help visualize our Universe and how everything "moves" through it. If you think about it, since the beginning of the Universe (and maybe before, if there was another one before it) everything has interacted with everything else in a manner which, if one were able to completely comprehend the movement and actions of each and everything in the universe right down to each electron, neutron, and proton in every atom and how everything affects everything else, is perfectly predictable. "Random" events are really perfectly predictable, except that we are incapable of doing so, which means that nothing is random. Following this line, it would be theoretically possible (but practically impossible, for obvious reasons) to predict, with perfect accuracy, the "future". This means that everything is predetermined, although probably (IMHO) not by any sort of "God" or supreme being, but simply by the laws of science (both known and unknown to us). This explains why time cannot (except in certain instances) be "sped up" or "slowed down": because time doesn't exist. But what about those 'certain instances'? Specifically, what about the light speed effect, where the faster you go, the 'slower' you 'move through time' (I'm using that term even though I'm arguing time doesn't really exist for lack of a better way of describing this) relative to the rest of the Universe? For example, if a person traveled at almost the speed of life for ten years or so, on Earth or any other object moving at slower speeds more time would have passed, say, 50 years(that's a random guess, but I don't think it's wildly off). How does that work?

My guess (keep in mind I'm only a freshman in high school, so someone with more knowledge/experience with astrophysics and astronomy can help me out here) is that moving very quickly through space simply causes atoms to somehow "change" more slowly relatively to atoms moving at lesser speeds. This creates the effect of a person or thing aging more quickly than something else, without the actual existence of time, which we need to explain these effects.

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