Imagining the Fourth Dimension

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[InspectorCallahan.]

"Why don't you explain this to me like I'm 5" - Michael Scott

[Danymok]

0:19 when that hexagon turned into a cube I shat myself a little.

[KpRdS]

4 Dimensional beings watching us trying to understand the 4th dimension like: "ahah poor little lads, they're so dumb!"

[Intarsd]

I am shocked of how good finally someone has compiled 4th dimension concept discussion with really quite explanatory visual cues and analogies.
That world line, spime parameter was astonishing concept (to me). Never previously heard of anything like it.
We are a form of a continuous signal, a record - our whole bodies, structures.

[chuckschickbaldtacos]

I like binge watching this stuff to make myself feel extra stupid

[DanielDimov]

The way I'm starting to think about it is that just like how a line which is something that exists in the first dimension forms the shape of a square in the second dimension a square forms the sides of a cube in the third dimension. Our perception of past, future and present are just the "sides of the cube" in the 4th dimension. Basically they are all components of the 4th dimensional character. And just like how a square exists as a side of a cube and can't see the other sides because they are perpendicular to it the same way we can't see our past and future because they are perpendicular to us. But still they both exist at the same time. Also when you think about it if you alter the size of a square that is part of a cube you alter the entire shape and form of the cube. That's how by manipulating your present you shape your future.

[dtheundertale]

Stuff I learned from this video:

4th dimension = 3rd + 1
Cubes are moving
If you are in present at A, then you are in future at B.
The opposite of right is left.
Over time your look changes.

[pibeeulotro]

Labeling the fourth dimension as “duration” actually coincides with all of the ideas that are introduced in calculus of four dimensions (calculus of four variables). I like how he explained this “duration” ideology.

[MegaRandompoo]

Imagining the fourth dimension is impossible, it's like trying to think of a new colour.

[langlencollection]

I have watched video of different 4D explanations more than 10 times. Now I understand the 4D, thank you.

[DeathDealer]

God dammit dude I am just not ready for this shit at 5 in the morning

[xxvain]

Science really interest me, but I don't understand it

[HiroGamez]

I Knew it, I knew it... Were all snakes...

[cake]

You know that bug that happens on old computers sometimes, where you drag a window and it leaves a trail of windows behind it? If you can see everything happening at the same time in the 4th dimension, then maybe a fourth dimensional universe would look kind of like that bug, with millions of long snakes of matter leading outwards from where the universe began? So a person would look like a trail leading everywhere they've been in their lifetime, to where they'll eventually die.

I'm probably completely wrong and look like an idiot right now...

[jacobshahwan]

For all the nerds out this, read this. Imagine a 2d world. Everyone there can only look to the left, right, forward and backwards, and everything in between. but one square who lives in the 2d worlds says "I just visited the 3rd dimension" and no one believed him. He said there was another new direction, up. But no one else could imagine this so called "3rd dimension". So everyone else said "point to it". But the square was unable to do so. The same rule applies to all dimensions. The 4th dimension isn't time. It is just another direction we could never see.

[nategermonprez]

Some days I feel smart but today is not one of those days...

[LorenzoDoesntExist]

With 0 dimensions, we have existence.

With the 1st dimension, length, we have motion.
With the 2nd dimension, area, we have angular direction.
With the 3rd dimension, volume, we have space as we know it.
With the 4th dimension, spacetime, we have change.
With the 5th dimension, probability space, we have chance.

With the nth dimension, we have existence.

[jewman]

On a side note, I had egg salad for lunch today.

[MsMusicalcupcake]

After shuffling through many videos, I found that 6:28 - 7:35 is the best virtual demonstration for understanding this profound place called the 4th fucking dimension.
I noticed that each dimension is a copy of the prior one. From a dot (zero) to a line (1D) to a flat surface (2D) which then the flat surface copies itself to create depth. From there on, being our 3D world, the way we view it as it is from our vision point of view, is being copied over and over and over and over which gives the illusion of time.

[jeffburke]

I feel like the moment we die, we will understand so clearly all demensions that exist and realize the simplicity of it all. Only then, will we fully understand and acknowledge what we perceive and experience.