i thought of something about 4d

[xcrissxcrossx]

If you played the new paper mario for wii, you would know that you can flip from 2d to 3d. Sometimes you will run into a wall, but when you go 3d, you see there is a way behind the wall that doesnt exist in the second dimension. imagine if you were in 3d, and there was a cube that made it impossible to get past the cube, so you could flip into the fourth dimension and find away around the cube. hard to imagine but yet its a good way to think of it.

[bro]

What you said is interesting, that 3d provides a way around 2d, and theoretically 4d around 3d, (though some say 4d is time, not physical), however I still cannot picture a 4th physical dimension, kind of like we can't imagine a new color

[arby]

If you were a 2-D being and you saw a square in front of you this is what you would see. | | | | | | A line. Of course, 3 dimensional beings see a square when looking at the 2-dimensional image from a distance away on the z axis (3rd dimension) Our world would look totally different if you looked in on it from a perspective along the 4th dimension.

[Baalzamon]

2d beings cannot understand 3d and 3d cannot understand 4d. u can think about it all u want

[Sornaensis]

If you were a 2-D being and you saw a square in front of you this is what you would see. | | | | | | A line. Of course, 3 dimensional beings see a square when looking at the 2-dimensional image from a distance away on the z axis (3rd dimension) Our world would look totally different if you looked in on it from a perspective along the 4th dimension. Actually, that is 1d, 2d you would see a square as this: .__ |__| OMG!! a square!. If you are 2d and youlooked at a cube, you would see a square also.

[Baalzamon]

he is right. 1d u would see a line 2 d a square 3 d a cube take a look at this wid Imaging the 10th dimension its the last one. http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks_videos.php everything starts with a point

[Sornaensis]

i clicked on the video link, and... Nothing happened, :/

[Baalzamon]

there is some sort of popup..not standart thou. so maybe ur comp is blocking it. try with diferent browswer or youtube, maybe there is also this video.

[arby]

click on the number spiral thing on the side to see it. And as for the 2d perspective stuff... In the 3rd dimension we can only see a 2D representation of the world around us. In the 2nd we can only see a 1D representation of a 2D object.

[skysaw]

You should check out the classic book Flatland by Edwin Abbot. It's an interesting little fantasy story about being two-dimensional and not being able to conceive of the third dimension.

[Sornaensis]

@ arby, wtf? We have three dimensions. Up, down forward, backwards left, and right, that's 3 pairs, three dimensions, therefore we CAN detect 2d, and 1d objects, but our world is 3d, lol.