Where & what is the 5th dimension? - Page 2

jyl · jyl's Garage

Seem to me the 5th dimension can be any attribute that is not described by position or time.

It can be temperature, color, electric charge, hardness, opacity, odoriferousness, etc.

So you could define a thing by the x-y-z coordinates of the space it occupies, the time (default is present day but could be describing a thing as it existed in 12,000 BC), and that it is mostly black and brown, 98F, overall neutrally charged, mostly soft, fully opaque, very very smelly, etc. Maybe a Neanderthal.

Pazuzu · 02-09-2025, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by BK911

Humans can perceive a VERY narrow frequency range by natural ability, and a bit more with technology, but overall a very VERY tiny sliver of what's out there. We don't even know all what's out there.

Why do you have so little faith in humans? We are so incredibly capable that we have manipulated the world to enhance our abilities. Can't see ultraviolet? Make a camera system that does! Can't lift heavy things? Make a powered tool that does! Can't fly? Figure out like 10 different ways to fly!
The fact that we know of parts of the Universe around us that are invisible to us shows how amazing humanity is. The fact that we even know that (for example) ultraviolet light exists, and can then harness it is absolutely mindblowing. The fact that we have mapped the Universe, described it back and forth, defined, viewed and the manipulated the actual primordial building blocks of matter...

Pazuzu · 02-09-2025, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted

Been reading stuff about the universe and ya got to wonder about a 5th dimension?

What happened to the 4th dimension? Do you guys all finally accept it?

LEAKYSEALS951 · 12:39 PM

Tabby is the 5th dimension. He quit birdparts and now hangs out there 24/7. Our lowly 3 dimensional universe is pedantic for him. A traveler both of time and space, he's floats the ether of dimensional possibility, finding thrift store bargains, all of them, simultaneously, as we speak.

cabmandone · cabmandone's Garage

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Maybe the 5th dimension is where all the 10mm sockets go!

I think you're onto something! One hits the floor and Poof! Gone.

flatbutt · 02-09-2025, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Jeeeesh, I have enough trouble trying to find my sox. Now I have to look for a dimension?

Aren't they on your feets?

masraum · 02-09-2025, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Pazuzu

What happened to the 4th dimension? Do you guys all finally accept it?

It's just time, what's not to believe/accept?

LEAKYSEALS951 · 02-09-2025, 01:57 PM

Socks enter the fifth dimension at 50% the rate of 10mm sockets. That's a fact.

cabmandone · cabmandone's Garage

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Socks enter the fifth dimension at 50% the rate of 10mm sockets. That's a fact.

So you're saying the dryer might be a portal? I could buy into that.

wdfifteen · wdfifteen's Garage

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Aren't they on your feets?

Oh. Yes. Ha! Thanks.
Shoulda looked there first. Now to that dimension thing….

LEAKYSEALS951 · 02-09-2025, 02:33 PM

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So you're saying the dryer might be a portal? I could buy into that.

I'm not saying dryer. But it's this one.

herr_oberst · 02-09-2025, 02:45 PM

Using a foot lever to open the door even though you'll still have to bend over to take the clothes out.

There used to be so many quality engineers around that not only did we have Bell Labs and Werner Braun and General Motors and Lockheed but there was plenty of extra capacity to design useless **** like this!

1950's? FIFTH dimension? Coincidence?

Pazuzu · 02-09-2025, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by masraum

It's just time, what's not to believe/accept?

Time isn't the 4th dimension. Time is time, it's a different animal.

We live in a 3 dimensional Universe that is wrapped upon itself in the 4th dimension (4 physical, orthogonal, spacial dimensions).

A balloon is a 2 dimensional universe wrapped around a third dimension. We are one step further along. 5th dimensions and above only exist in a few esoteric cosmologies.

911boost · 911boost's Garage

We solve the 5th dimension in the future and send back a tesseract for us to realize it, then we use Morse Code to pass the data back through time.

Duh.

Crowbob · 02-10-2025, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

that's where it gets interesting and something I think about now and again including my theory on the conservation of the soul in the same vein as mass and energy. The soul could very well be an artifact of or manifestation of the 5th or another dimension in our 4D world.

Some people call that other dimension Heaven, or Nirvana, or Paradise, or the enightenment, or peace, or even a glass of cool water on a hot day.

WPOZZZ · 02-10-2025, 02:42 AM

These guys have been to the 8th Dimension. We have The Fly, Robocop, Dr. Emmet Brown, Kurgan from The Highlander, Mantis...

zakthor · zakthor's Garage

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Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Time isn't the 4th dimension. Time is time, it's a different animal.

We live in a 3 dimensional Universe that is wrapped upon itself in the 4th dimension (4 physical, orthogonal, spacial dimensions).

A balloon is a 2 dimensional universe wrapped around a third dimension. We are one step further along. 5th dimensions and above only exist in a few esoteric cosmologies.

It isnt wrong to model universe with time as 4th dimension. There’s other models that also work.

Bill Verburg · Bill Verburg's Garage

11 dimensions explained

Arizona_928 · 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Why do you have so little faith in humans? We are so incredibly capable that we have manipulated the world to enhance our abilities. Can't see ultraviolet? Make a camera system that does! Can't lift heavy things? Make a powered tool that does! Can't fly? Figure out like 10 different ways to fly!
The fact that we know of parts of the Universe around us that are invisible to us shows how amazing humanity is. The fact that we even know that (for example) ultraviolet light exists, and can then harness it is absolutely mindblowing. The fact that we have mapped the Universe, described it back and forth, defined, viewed and the manipulated the actual primordial building blocks of matter...

A lot of research I’ve done has been down conversion photoluminescense. It gets very complicated very quickly but it’s all theory. Up conversion photoluminescence being more interesting as you take a longer wavelength and converting it to a higher energy shorter wavelength photon. Essentially taking IR and turning it into visible or UV light. Why? Just theories, nothing is known 100%.

For how much we have done, there’s very little we actually know of science, the earth (including the ocean), and even our biological mechanisms. All theory. However it’s interesting that a bunch of weirdos from 100 years ago can lay out the basics of quantum mechanics and to this day have not been replaced. Schrödinger‘s equation is the basics for a lot of processes. So little we actually know.

There’s other constructs of mathematics that is applicable towards chemistry. We can theorize elements with n orbitals. Just on earth, we only get to play up to the f-orbitals….

Pazuzu · 02-10-2025, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by zakthor

It isnt wrong to model universe with time as 4th dimension. There’s other models that also work.

Time is not a spacial dimension. It's an arrow, and shouldn't be confused with orthogonal planes. Just because someone called time the 4th dimension back in the 60s doesn't mean it is, because it's not.