I got to thinking the other day, and I came up with something I think is pretty cool to consider.
The basic idea is this: an object can only be viewed in all dimensions it exists in by an observer who exists at least one dimension higher.
Sounds crazy, right? Can't we (3-dimensional beings) see in three dimensions? I cannot claim to be an expert in this area by any means. On the contrary, I'm actually a recent high school graduate currently attending community college only for general studies! But here is my reasoning:
Take a simple 3-dimensional object, a sphere for instance. When you look at it, doesn't it look like a 2-dimensional circle? No matter what angle you look at it from, all you can see is one side, therefore, 2 dimensions. This holds true for a 2-dimensional being as well. If a 2-dimensional being looks at any 2-dimensional shape, it will appear to be only a 1-dimensional line.
But what about depth perception? It is true we can use depth to infer that the "circle" we are looking at in the above example is actually a sphere, but percieved depth exists in any dimension. For example, the 2-D being from before can see that the "line" curves away at the top and bottom fairly evenly, so it can assume the shape is a circle, even though all it sees is a line. The fact remains that we can only see the sphere from one angle. To truly see the sphere in all three dimensions it exists in, we must be able to observe it from 360 degrees around all three axes simultaneously, which would require the observer to exist in at least the 4th spacial dimension.
This rule only applies to sight. As far as I have mentally explored, the other senses are perfectly capable of observing the 3rd dimension in its entirety.
Like I said, I am not the world's foremost expert on dimensional theory, and I may in fact be wrong. Without a visual demonstration the concept can be hard to grasp, but if you can understand all the crazyness going on in the above, it makes sense, right?
Submitted October 24, 2018 at 09:47AM by BloxForDays16 https://ift.tt/2yDVkZ1