Dimentology theory.

[Souper]

0 dimensions: Static Point.

1 dimension: Infinite line.

2 dimensions: Infinite Square.

3 dimensions: Infinite 3D shape. Can contain other shapes.

4 dimensions: Our world. This one is animated because time.

5 dimensions: World with all alternate time lines present at once.

6 dimensions: World with ALL timelines, even impossible timelines, all present at once.

7 dimensions: Infinite Multiverse with all possible physics laws outcomes existing at the same time.

8 dimensions: Infinite Multiverse with all possible, even impossible physics (There IS such a thing) and outcomes at the same time.

9 dimensions: Everything above.

10 dimensions: A weird infinite multiverse without any physics at all, and anything and everything happens. Pretty scary.

11 dimensions: Everything above, infinity'd.

Is correct?

[K^2]

No. Not at all.

[Ralathon]

That's not how dimensions work at all. Dimensions are a direction that you can move in, "all available timelines" is not a direction.

[Cancanaja]

[Monkeh]

Our universe has many more dimensions than the 4 we routinely experience anyway. Another 10 or so are curled up real small. Strings need their Calabi-Yau spaces to vibrate through you know.

[Skyler4856]

There is only one temporal dimension. Our 4d universe/multiverse could contain all possible timelines, and physical possibility. Dimensions don't (for the most part) dictate physical laws.

[Dominatus]

I can't say if this is correct, because I moved before I could take the astro-geo course at my old high school. A buddy took the course last year, though. I remember him explaining something about this... 11 dimensions is correct, based on what my friend said. This is either a part of string theory or m theory, I honestly cannot remember which. Maybe someone else knows? (Hint: post something this guy will find helpful rather than just declare that he is wrong)

[andrewas]

All we can measure are the four dimensions of spacetime. Some theories suggest there are more spatial dimensions that are simply too small for us to notice, but theres no experimental evidence for these.

Also, what the OP describes bears no resemblance to these extra dimensions.

[mikeman7918]

Not correct, string theory says that there are at least 10 Dimentions of space and 1 of time. We, as 3D objects, can observe and interact with only 3 Dimentions of space and the 1 of time for a total of 4, but there still is a 4th Dimention of space that we cannot observe or interact with. The reason this is known is simply following the good old Dimention expansion patters that have been noted between the 1, 2, and 3d dementions we can observe. These paterns are things like this: on a 1D square, you have a line segment with 2 vertexes. On a 2D square, you have 4 vertexes and a new 1D shape (a edge). A 3D cube has 8 vertexes, 12 edges and a new 2D shape (a face). In a 4D Hypercube (also known as a tesseract) there are 16 vertexes and there is a new shape (a 4D face) which is 3D. A 4 D object would cast a 3D shadow and can only be observed with 3D vision (our vision is 2D) making such shapes beyond our imagination, but totally possible.

This pattern can be continued infinitely, suggesting that there are an infinite number of space Dimensions, but if the 4th Dimension is beyond our ability to fully understand, we don't stand a chance at understanding anything higher dimensional then that. So don't even try.

Edited February 7, 2014 by mikeman7918

[Souper]

Sorry, but humanity WILL keep trying.

[Souper]

That's not how dimensions work at all. Dimensions are a direction that you can move in, "all available timelines" is not a direction.

Wrong. If you are a 5D object you can move 4D, wich is, essentially, time.

[K^2]

Wrong. If you are a 5D object you can move 4D, wich is, essentially, time.

Again, not how it works. Please, learn a little bit about models we already have in place before making stuff up.

[Holo]

I see you, too, watched Imaging the Tenth Dimension once.

[Souper]

Think. If you stacked infinite 3D cubes along the W axis you can make animation. Animation = time.

[Souper]

Thus making the 4th dimension.

Also, remember that string theory is only a theory.

[K^2]

Or I can take a bunch of 2D objects and stack them together. So 3rd dimension is also time.

This isn't what defines time. Time is defined by signature of the metric. We happen to live in a 3+1 space, which gives us 3 spacial dimensions and one time dimension. And exact direction of time is not specified. That's frame dependent. But any way you look at it, it's 3+1. But you can have spaces with other signatures. AdS formalism is defined on a constant "radius" shell in 4+2 space. That's four spacial dimensions and two times. (Restricted problem is then equivalent to a curved 4+1 space.)

So again, I ask you to actually read a bit on how dimensions work and what makes time - time, before you start making stuff up and especially telling people who know much better than you that they are wrong.

[Souper]

Wait..... So every time dimension above 0 is a time dimension?

...Unexpected.

[Souper]

(If it's host to a spatial dimension)

[K^2]

No, it's not. Our space is inherently 3+1. Or 1+3. So there are either 3 dimensions and 1 time, or 3 times and 1 spacial. That you can pick either way you like. But there are 3 of one and 1 of the other. This has to do with fundamental structure of our space. It's something we're stuck with, because that's how time and space actually work. Which you need to understand before making stuff up.

[Souper]

Well what about 2+2?

[Souper]

Would that be possible?

[K^2]

It's possible, of course, but it's not what we live in.

[ThinkOutsideTheHangar]

That's not how dimensions work at all. Dimensions are a direction that you can move in, "all available timelines" is not a direction.

Wouldn't that be moving in time?

[K^2]

Wouldn't that be moving in time?

No, even having multiple time dimensions isn't the same thing as having multiple timelines. Usually, alternative timelines show up in either the context of "parallel dimensions" or Many Worlds. The former is a bit of a misnomer, and is actually closer to the more modern concept of having multiple branes in the bulk. There, you do have extra dimension(s) which you can associate with alternate time lines, but it's a little bit more complicated overall. And these extra dimensions certainly aren't just extra time dimensions. Many Worlds, in contrast, doesn't rely on extra dimensions at all. All of the time lines share the time dimension via superposition.