(Advanced topic warning)
a) a dimension refers to a measurement necessary to disambiguate a reference. Or more specifically, in mathematics, to produce a set of vectors that produce a direction of causality that will influence other dimensions of causality. Ergo why we use Manifolds in mathematics to track dense causalities (relations). Our neurons are for all intents and purpose producing vast networks of cause in the manifold that is our neocortex.
b) The universe only requires three spatial and one time dimensions to describe it. We can use either three linear or two circular(direction) and one linear (scale) dimensions as descriptors.
c) (Very advanced topic) The universe is incapable of more than those three plus one dimensions – no more dimensions are possible without destroying the prior four.
d) When we talk of say ten dimensions we are talking about a three step hierarchy of dimensions of causality, each that affects the others within the one time dimensions. In physics this means it is likely that there is at least one more dimension of causality (one more hierarchy of constant states) beneath the quantum background.
e) Until we end our wasted einsteinian century ‘lost in mathiness’ (pseudoscience), by completing the classical model of the quantum background (we’re close), explaining what we call particles but aren’t (they’re closer to lightning storms that collapse as lightning bolts), and explain the cause of the quantum background we will not know if the speed of light and the mass that results as we compress the quantum background, can be overcome. I have, no one has, any sense as yet whether it’s possible. If not, and, if we cannot capture and use the energy of the quantum background (huge) even if only zero point, then we are ‘not going anywhere fast’.
f) As such the only dimension we can likely ‘colonize’ is time. And in that sense, given relative time at mass and velocity (or even independent thereof) for all intents and purposes ‘dimensions’ (differeent rates of life histories) will be effectively infinite.
Cheers
Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute
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