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Emotional Synthesis or the Temporal Fourth Dimension²
This may be a bit high-brow for some but anyways, Einstein's Theory of Relativity questions the concept of the temporal fourth dimension otherwise known as the pausing second or time machine. Einstein proposed that time is the fourth dimension, as we know; but this is not a dimension, strictly speaking.¹
The world in which I live is a three (3-D) dimensional world. It has combinational breadth, height and length. In theory, a fourth dimension is provable with geometrical figures. It is practically impossible for anyone to conceive the fourth dimension in our minds; except by analogy.
Example One: Starting at a given point, I can draw a one dimensional line of length. Move this line at right angles to itself, on a flat surface, and you generate a square with breadth and length. Move this square at right angles to itself, and you generate a cube adding height. Theoretically, it should be possible to move this cube at right angles to itself, in some direction, and generate a 'tesseract' or 'hypersolid'; giving us a fourth dimension.
Example Two: Starting at a given point, draw two lines through it at right angles to one another, on a sheet of paper. If I want to draw a third line through the point, at right angles to the first two, you have to draw it art right angles to the paper itself, as though you were standing up in the air. The method of drawing a fourth line thru the point of reference, at right angles to the other three would be the fourth dimension.
Example Three: a right-hand glove cannot be turned into a left-hand glove unless it is turned inside out.
Example Four; A hollow rubber ball can be turned inside out in the fourth dimension without tearing the ball.
Example Five; It is impossible to tie a true knot in a piece of string in two dimensions because one end has to be lifted over the other into the third dimension. In three dimensional space, it is impossible to tie a piece of string; both ends of which have been held or sealed.
Example Six: If you had a box containing some rings, I cannot see the rings; so long as the box is kept on a level with the eyes in two dimensions. But if you elevate your eyes or lower the box, and look into it from above, you can see the rings inside. That is, by adding another (third) dimension, you are enabled to see what you could not see before, in a 'closed space'. It has been contended that by adding a fourth dimension, it is possible for clairvoyants to see what is to us a closed room or box and describe its contents. Therefore, it has been contended that clairvoyance is fourth dimensional sight.It is certainly true that, by adding another dimension, we are enabled to see things which would otherwise be invisible. Of course, this is merely an analogy, which cannot be pressed too far.
Example Seven: By employment of x-rays, the scientist is now able to discover the arrangement of the atoms and molecules within the crystal 'network structure' or 'space lattice' of any crystal known as the bravais lattice. The results are obtained from the study of the reflection and refraction of the rays in crystal chemistry, or the successive rows of molecules in the crystal. These act toward the extremely short x-rays in the same way as a grating spectroscope does to ordinary light-rays. Is this the fourth dimension?
While the fourth dimension cannot be visualized by the mind, a good deal has been learned concerning it, from the theoretical point of view and mathematically it can be shown to be not impossible. Its geometry is well known. The subject was exhaustively treated by authors such as Hinton, C. Bragdom and Munn and Company's 'The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained'.
Movies are only 3D at this point; who knows later -> 4D movies?
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²New Discoveries in Science by H. Carrington, 1924
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