Monday, August 14, 2006

I see 10 dimensions, how meny do you see?

What is a dimension? My definition of a dimension is information required to discribe a point in space and time.

Think of space as a 3D array of these points of space and time (we will call them pixels for this blog). With the size of a pixel being equivelant to the smallest divisable amount of space. What is the information required to discribe an individual pixel?

- The first three dimensions discribe the location of the pixal along the x, y, z planes.
- Since we know space can be streached the next three dimensions discribe the length, width, height of the pixel. Note that even though this is the smallest divisable amount of space each pixel can be a different size depending on how space is streached.
- Since we know space can bend the next three dimenstions discribe tilt, pitch, yaw.
- The last dimension is time.

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