What is the dimension known as time?

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What is the dimension known as time?

Answer 1

a place somewhere between reality, and the unknown....

Answer 2

It's a linear vector dimension.

Try reading "A Brief History of Time" and "The Universe in a Nutshell" by Stephen Hawking. It has some explanations on time.

Answer 3

Feel free to disagree but I like Berkley's definition best. What we perceive to be time is just the order in which events approach us.

That which is further away appears to be later in time.

Answer 4

time is not a dimension per se, since it cannot be measured by space. moreover if you look into it, it has been proved that if an object travels at the speed of light, then time is measure in a different way, so if you travel two hours at the speed of light and you have a watch on to time the time spent, it won't say two hours, but less.

its very difficult to get your mind around this concenpt of physics, since for us time 60 seconds a minute, that's fix, but not at the speed of light!

Answer 5

From what I understand, numerically speaking, is that it's always one more number then what you find yourself living in... sorta like the century we are (the 21st) even though numercially it's only 2008...

1) We are aware of four dimensions and can measure all four, but to my knowledge, we've only been able to learn how to manipulate and change the lower three, mainly: Length, Width, and Height...

2) In order to learn to manipulate time, I believe we'd have to learn to perceive the 5th dimension in some fashion..... doing so may teach us how to alter the 4th dimension that some Mathematicians ascribe as being 'Time'

3) Several books both Scientific and Esoteric have been written... authors from Hawkings to Crowley and everything in between...

4) Of the esoteric portion that I'm more familiar with, if interested... check out any books that pertain to Kaballah especially as it relates to the "Tree of Life"... it speaks of the universe as having at least 10-dimensions...

Answer 6

It's the 4th dimension.

Answer 7

see 4th dimensional topography in math

Answer 8

Spiritually, time is Mother.

In quantum physics, it is believed to develop at the planck level, per geometric coalescences of Energy at finer (10^-99 cm) levels.

"The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet,

"A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov,

"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi.

Answer 9

Time Is Not a Dimension

    Time is related to the expansion of space. Slower time is associated with slower expansion and negative curvature

in space in a higher dimension which was first described by Einstein.  This extra dimension is not a time dimension in

which we can travel. Time is just the presence of motion and forces and is caused by the expansion of space.

    When we discuss time we will come across terms like curvature in space in a higher dimension, expansion of

space, slowing of time in gravity and slowing of time in motion. It is important to understand the connection of each

one of these terms. Expansion of space is the prime mover behind all the action, it imparts time as the presence of

motion and forces to matter in an area of space.  Also slower expansion of space produces negative curvature in

space. Although time is slower in negatively curved space it is the slower expansion which is causing slower time and

not the negative curvature. Slower expansion is in turn due to presence of a mass. The gravitons radiate from a mass

under the influence of expanding space. Gravitons are thought to be double spin particles that interact with space to

slow the expansion.  All these phenomenon expansion of space, curvature in space gravity and time are

interconnected.  Prime mover however is the expansion of the space and the universe.

Why is time a dimension?

   According to Isaac Newton, time was universal for all objects no matter their motion relative to one another. This point of view held until Einstein turned it on its head, because he was bothered that it wasn't consistent with the propagation of light as electromagnetic radiation.

   Einstein's special theory of relativity, which makes classical mechanics consistent with classical electromagnetism, treats time like a coordinate in a unified spacetime geometry. If time is a coordinate, then instead of three coordinates to describe a point in space, we have four coordinates to describe an event in spacetime. So that's what is meant by saying that our spacetime has four dimensions. Usually we label them (t,x,y,z).

   Special relativity is an approximate theory that is a good approximation when we can neglect the force of gravity and the acceleration of observers in the system. Einstein's full theory of spacetime, called general relativity, takes the concept of a four dimensional spacetime and extends it to a curved spacetime, where time and space make one united fabric that is curved and stretched and twisted by the distribution of matter and energy in the fabric.

   From a mathematical point of view, both special and general relativity can be extended easily to higher space dimensions. If we have D dimensions of space and one time, then we say there are d = D + 1 dimensions of spacetime. The equations of motion can be solved and classified in d dimensions just like in four spacetime dimensions.