h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: The Dimensions and Space Time - A2014840
Author: Graham - U516634

Hi there. This entry was orrigionally submitted in peer review, but it didn't turn out so well. I think this is definantly "alternitive." and would seem to fit in this section.

It certainly is alternative. Just dropping by so you don't think the AWW is deserted. I'm afraid this is over my head though. I hope you get some readers who can meet the challenge.

Thanks for posting it.

I didn't think it was deserted at all! In fact I was suprised to hear back so soon.

Rock on

yup

Hi Graham,

Yup, indeed. I think this one is quite tough for non-physicists to approach...

well, that's my excuse!

There is no such thing as time (according to advanced physics in an attempt at the Unification Theorum). The 'Zeroth' dimention is explained in Geomitry as part and parcel with the first dimention. Probability is a mathematics, not a dimention. There are others, but it really doesn't matter, this isn't PR.

Good entry. It most definately fits the 'Alternative' part of the AWW. Keep up the good work. I like entries that make me think.

Graham, Hi again.

I'm glad to see that the PR experience didn't push you into abandoning the piece completely.

Since you've decided to retain it, I'm hoping that you are also interested in improving it when possible.

There is a part, under your first header, where you say,
'... but for not ...',
and probably meant '... but for now ...'

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Your zeroeth dimension - no height, width, depth - sounds like a point, a mathematical place in space or space-time.

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Lastly:
'Time, on the other hand, can not be defined. Time is separate from the universe. Time has existed since before the universe. Without time, nothing could have happened to start the universe expanding. Therefore, time is not of this universe; it is external to the universe. Something that is separate from this universe can not be defined by any part of the universe, and since we are a product of this universe, we can not define time. It is impossible to define something that is not of this universe because we have nothing to compare it to.'

We can, and do, define time, and I'm not sure that any dimension can be said to pre-exist the others. Certainly there is no proof of this.

It doesn't automatically extend from logic, either. As all dimensions are part of space-time, logically they must all have come about at the same moment, if there was indeed a beginning moment of space-time. Space-time could well have existed before our universe, which simply represents the matter in space-time and the space between it.

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I'm not suggesting that the theory in 'Time: A Bi-Directional Dimension' is a fact or logical certainty, but it might influence how you picture time, and therefore help you in any work you may decide to do on this entry.

Good Luck, either way.