Spacial Dimension.
(Don't confuse this with just outer-space, I'm talking about space in general)
I was taught, and my senses tell me that there are three dimensions.
Scientists have theorised more, but until now have failed to describe their nature to the layman's satisfaction. So I've done some superficial research and come to some conclusions of my own.
There is but one spacial dimension, the one we live in. The third, featuring length, width and height.
Sub-species of this third and real dimension are:
Zero dimensions.
Without any requirement of length, width or height, and described to me, in school, as a dot. Simply doesn't exist in space.
A dot on the other hand has all three directional requirements, however small it is.
At it's smallest, to exist at all, it has the same three dimensions as the smallest sub-atomic particle:
One dimension.
Supposedly a line, with length only.
However, again, at its thinnest, it must still possess the three dimensions of the smallest sub-atomic particle:
Two dimensions.
See one dimension, with width thrown in ( a shape drawn on a flat surface).
Science (specifically, Einstein's Theory of Relativity) claims that time enters the equation as the fourth dimension.
But how does that work?
Time is a measure of elapsed process. That process necessarily happens within space but doesn't require time to be part of space.
It's been empirically proven that both time and length ( the distance between the point of the object that is going to arrive first and that which will arrive last) dilate, depending upon the object's speed. (An observer within the object would be subject to the same dilation and experience no changes to it's dimensions.)
Note that this dimensional dilation occurs in only one direction (the direction that it's moving) and that it is a shortening. Neither the height or width of an object is affected, only the length. Which indicates to me that the object is experiencing some resistance on the front end.
If both dilations occur in equal ratio, it is surely two results of the same phenomena. Could it not be that speed dilates the building blocks of matter causing both dimensional and speed of process (time) dilation.
It follows that speed effects the three known dimensions, by either shrinking one of them. So, yes I think that I can accept that as a real extra dimension, but I still don't see the connection to time.
Perhaps somebody can put me right about that.
Obviously, I'm right to describe the less than three dimensions as sub species of the the only real spacial dimensions.
They exist only because of our inability to see that they do, in reality, they have all three dimensions.
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