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Muddler
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Hi Michael!
I am not sure what exactly you are trying to do.
Do you want to theorize what n-dimensional objects would behave or look like to our senses?
I don't know what good this would do.
We are only able to perceive three spatial dimensions (plus time of course, but since we are talking objects and I find it hard to add time-character to a cube, I'll leave it with 3D-space...)
But that doesn't mean, our senses leave us with any valid information about the "real" dimensionality of our universe.
It could be 11, it could be 1 or 2 "projected" to a 4D-spacetime - I think we don't really know yet (maybe just I don't know...)
It is simple but frustrating: we can only see, what we are able to see. We don't have any possibility to imagine, what something would look like.
We are not even able to imagine, how UV looks to insect-eyes, and that's just a few bits of wavelength up our capabilites.
So how can we try to visualize additional dimensions ?
I may be a little pragmatic here, but I really like to know what your idea is - and what it's good for...
I am not sure what exactly you are trying to do.
Do you want to theorize what n-dimensional objects would behave or look like to our senses?
I don't know what good this would do.
We are only able to perceive three spatial dimensions (plus time of course, but since we are talking objects and I find it hard to add time-character to a cube, I'll leave it with 3D-space...)
But that doesn't mean, our senses leave us with any valid information about the "real" dimensionality of our universe.
It could be 11, it could be 1 or 2 "projected" to a 4D-spacetime - I think we don't really know yet (maybe just I don't know...)
It is simple but frustrating: we can only see, what we are able to see. We don't have any possibility to imagine, what something would look like.
We are not even able to imagine, how UV looks to insect-eyes, and that's just a few bits of wavelength up our capabilites.
So how can we try to visualize additional dimensions ?
I may be a little pragmatic here, but I really like to know what your idea is - and what it's good for...