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Originally posted by Underlord
Everything isn't black and white.
Thats the best way to put it imo
We need a lot more research into such stuff. I would have loved to take up such subjects at university
Where did you get that quote from ?? I wanna read more
You know whats coincidence. Last night i was thinking of the same thing whilst comming home .... even before i saw this thread
freaky !!!
Anways, i think its kinda related to this topic cause i am gonna ask something about the 4th dimension.
Well we can only percieve life in 3 dimensions. We can sense the 4th dimension but we cant actually see it or travel through it.
Consider an ant or well .... a common house gecko (lizard) which can see everything in 2 dimensions .... it knows only 2 dimesions viz length (forward - backward axis) and bredth (left - right axis) it doesnt know anything about the height (up - down) axis.
Now assume it is walking on a ceiling and it falls down and lands on a baloon floating at the center of the room. Now where ever it goes, it cant escape since it has no idea that this is a baloon and he is above the ground (or below the ceiling) since he doesnt have a sence of height.
If there was a second gecko on the ceiling, how much ever he may try, he cant find the 1st gecko. See my point. We as humans can clearly see whats happening but the geckos wouldnt understand whats going on.
Consider our case, what if we managed to come in a similar condition. If one man goes into such a "positon" then we would nto be able to find him simply cause "time" isnt a dimension we can travel in.
So we as humans cant understand whats going on but there may be a higher species (imagine there are
) that can see whats going on cause they percieve the world in 4 dimensions.
So how can we imagine what time looks like ?? I mean, you can see 3d stuff. what if you could see stuff in 2d then you could know what you are missing, the sence of depth that your eyes provide in everything (photos arent exactly 2d are they ?? you can still make out which friend of yours is standing in front and whos at the back. Im saying you should see both your friends in a picture standing side by side even though one is closer to the camera)
Then could you imagine what the time axis looks like ??
PS: Does anyone know that east asian (Japaneese or korean i think) kinda scientist who has done a Phd in Theoretical Physics and keeps comming on the discovery channel from time to time. He is simply amazing
I think he got his Phd from MIT
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