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Originally Posted by EvilEye
I never said where I thought they came from. I left the door wide open as an example fo things that seemingly cannot be...being.
As far as extra dimentions, I don't think of them as another place.
I prefer to think of them all part of this universe, but invisble to us because we cannot experience them with the senses we have.
And maybe (just a hunch), we never developed higher senses (or even had them and lost them) because the universe would be too exceedingly confusing to exist in a normal everyday manner. Congruency would no longer exist, and we would have to spend all our time making sense of what we experienced from moment to moment.
I don't want to experience a 4th spacial dimention, but it would be cool to know if did exist.
But that has nothing to do with the original argument Astromark was against... that our 3 dimentional universe is flat, but in 4 dimentions.
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I think if you could experience 4-D it would seem normal to you.
3-D seems normal to you right?
Maybe a 2-D guy would say what you just said.
Imagine a 2-D guy on a piece of paper. (Yes, assuming he is sentient somehow) You poke a pencil through the paper. He will not see a pencil. He will see a dot. then the dot will expand into a circle. Then as the eraser passes the point of observation, he would see the circle rapidly decrease into a dot- then disappear.
Or think of elevation lines on a contour map.
If a 4-D being pushed his "pencil" through our dimension, we would percieve what appeared to be blobs or three dimensional parts of his "pencil" comming into being, then disappearing again without a trace.