Can you think of a dimension other than existing 4 dimension?

[ithelp]

e.g. some dimension where our 3 dimensional universe can fit in a tiny box,
or what else can be a dimension, can mass be a dimension as well ?
Your thougts please.

[jwenting]

uncertainty.

[EnderX]

How are you defining dimension here? Only the physical dimensions?

[lasher511]

Mass is actually a part of the 3rd dimension.

I think that the forth dimension is now pretty widely accepted as time. (depending on what scientists you talk to)

As for a 5th dimension i don't think that we have really developed enough as a race to understand or even comprehend what the 5th dimension might be.

[EnderX]

Again, are we only working with the concept of physical dimensions? Because by some definitions I've seen, a non-physical structure could be defined in terms of vast numbers of dimensions.

[jasimp]

Perhaps string theory?

[vegaseat]

It depends what is relevant to your space, in an economic space PRICE would be a dimension.

[madoverclocker]

interesting article... 11 dimensions?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13070896/

[Serunson]

From what i have heard, they have found up to 20 different dimensions! So yeah physics could show infinite dimensions.

[sneekula]

From what i have heard, they have found up to 20 different dimensions! So yeah physics could show infinite dimensions.

In an infinite universe, why not? One of my dimensions is money, or the lack thereof.

[jasimp]

Evidence actually suggests the universe is not infinite. It is just expanding at an extremely fast rate, so fast that you would have to travel at the speed of light to go around it. And as we know travel at the speed of is impossible for anything with mass.

[vegaseat]

While the Universe is not infinite, there could be an infinite number of Universes.

[jasimp]

Here is an interesting thought, if our universe is expanding, then what is it expanding in? A test tube in some other universe, or perhaps we are just a single atom on a blade of grass.

[lasher511]

From what i have heard, they have found up to 20 different dimensions! So yeah physics could show infinite dimensions.

Actually the most popular theory at the moment is that we have a finite universe and it is merely expanding constantly.

They actually think that things like gravity might actually be escaping from a different dimension as well. None the dimensions that scientists theorise about these days really have much to do with the first 3 dimensions.

[jasimp]

Actually the most popular theory at the moment is that we have a finite universe and it is merely expanding constantly.

Almost exactly what i said a few posts earlier.

[lasher511]

Almost exactly what i said a few posts earlier.

Yeah sorry i realised that after i posted it that there was another page of posts.

[uniquestar]

No-one's mentioned the old Dell Dimension! :P
(shoot me now)

[sk8ndestroy14]

Well, a point is dimensionless, a line has one dimension (length), a plane has two (length and width, thus creating area where length and width are both a part of), a volume, which has length, width, and depth, creating the attribute of volume which includes length, width, depth, and area as well. Since we are three dimensional creatures we cannot really traverse a fourth dimension although we are a part of it (just as area is a part of the third dimension, like a picture on the side of a block). The fourth dimension is time. Something we are obviously a part of, but cannot control because to us, it is linear.

[jasimp]

You can control time with gravity.
(I think I mentioned this somewhere else, it might have been the Dark Matter thread).

[cscgal]

No-one's mentioned the old Dell Dimension! :P (shoot me now)

That's what I was thinking yesterday but I was afraid I would get bashed if I posted it.