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Let's think of the dimensions for a minute-

first dimension is a single point. no up, down, left, or right. it is a pinprick, infinitely small, which is not even on a plane.

Second dimension is height and width, it does have an up and a down, a left and a right. but it has no depth. no "forward" or "backward", if you will.

Third dimension has this forward and backward, it has three main directions- verticle, horizontal and depth, I forget if this direction has a name.

All three could be represented by paper. firstly, the paper set so that you can only see an infintely thin edge would be first. Set so that you could see the sheet as a sheet, with four ends, would be 2 dimensional. twist the paper, and you have three dimensions- the two visible from the sheet, and the third, which is the thin but existant edge of the paper.

And then, there is the fourth dimension. I believe that we are fourth-dimensional. We travel through time. I am not sure this means actual time travel, such as, in any direction through time. But perhaps it means that something stays constant and existant in time. That same sheet of twisted paper, for example, stays paper and stays solid for more than one base unit of whatever time may be made of.

In this way, it is impossible to imagine ANY other dimension truly. if you picture a point, it must be on a plane. therefore is is second dimensional. We are also unable of fathoming infinitely small objects. furthermore, it is impossible to witness anything which does not travel in or with time, because it is simply on a plane we cannot see. Nor can it ever witness us since we are on a higher plane of existence, if that makes sense.

Ok, now that that is out of the way, there are supposedly a whole crapton of dimensions. I want to say 250 something, but that may be related to the number of pokemon in some game somewhere... sweatdrop

I may also want to say infinite, or 9. confused

Regardless, it is pretty much determined that there are more dimensions.

how can we possibly know this? Wouldn't they be far to complex for us to imagine? do things actully exist? What other direction is there beyond time? Dothings in the fifth dimension see us in time as still, frozen images? Do I think too much? and finally, Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego?

And is there a name or destription for the fifth? How could we ever know what it is, since we cannot possibly undersand it? It's like... trying to think of a new color. It can't be done because we cannot fathom something so impossibly unknown.

I have my own personaly theory about the fifthdimension...Simply put, its all of the above, but with an absence of relevent time. If we could at one point controle time, things would still move, but it would then be errelavent, as we can then controle it.

Hmmmm... Pyro's post sounds interesting... aside from the controling time thing, I'm not so sure...But it did spark an idea- moving in any direction through time... perhaps even, if you think of time as forawrd and back, up and down and diagonal through time. Of course, being human it is impossible for me to imagine what would be happening now, but on an "upward" level of time...

And likely, to fifth-dimensional matter, if that idea stands true, time is simply another way to move. You can take a hike to 1978 and then meander on over to 297 BC and jog on up to 2027 for lunch. All of it would probably appear to be still images if one stood still in time, much like walking in a forest... when you stop, the trees don't continue moving around you.

No... Not much of a trekkie... I do like to ponder wierd things like physics and chemistry stuff though... xd

But what is it that they can compute? What of these dimensions can be discerned?

And I thought- could it be possible that there are half-dimensional things, like things that can only move in certain directions? Or perhaps that is what it is with time- Maybe moving backwards in time would the the fifth, as it is a new direction opposed to the four we exist in- verticle, horizontal, outward and forward through time. So then what could the next one be? Perhaps it is multiple layers of something, where two things could exist in the same place at the same time but on different layers, somehow, due to differing layers of existence?

I don't know, just a thought. a bit far out there, i admit, but how do the physicists figure this stuff without taking their best guess?

The Traveler. From Tau Alpha C. Wesley eventually gained the ability to master it, too. Which is good, got him off the show. I like Wil Wheaton, but I don't like Wesley Crusher, little twit. Very, very early episode, btw.

At any rate...the fifth dimension is already a description being used for something fathomable by the human mind. It's in mathematics. I wasn't entirely sure, so I checked up on it. I'm also going to ask my dad about it tomorrow.

It still boggles the mind. Have you ever read something called...I think it was flatland? *wikis* Yep, Flatland. I think you might like it. It sort of combines mathematics and philosophy, if you want to read a bit of meaning into it.

Hyper-cubes FTW!

...Anyways, there was a site I visited once that explained the idea that scientists have about dimensions up until the 18th dimension or something, but I can't remember what it was called. sweatdrop It was pretty awesome, though. Seems like, basically, you take an object made up of all the previous dimensions and treat it as a "point". You create another "point," and stretch a "line" between them and you have an object of the next dimension.

This can be seen in the dimensions we already know; You have the "zero" dimension which is, literally, a point. You take two of those and stretch a line between them and you have an object of the first dimension. You take two lines and stretch a "line" between them and you have a two dimensional object, a square. Take two squares and stretch a "line" between them and you have a three dimensional object, the cube. Take two cubes and stretch a "line" between them and you have the hypercube, a fourth dimensional object. And so on and so forth, but it becomes a lot harder to visualize the farther you go.