one of the things I believe

[not_hothead_yet]

our dimension/universe is limited because one of the dimensions we perceive but cannot master is that of movement. Numbers are static, the closest we come is functions but we have to translate them in terms of numbers. This is the base of innumeracy - that most people have severe difficulty perceiving movement conceptually. We label movement in

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[polychrome_baby]

I believe something pretty close to that, also, about time. Time seems to confuse the everloving fuck out of people.

[not_hothead_yet]

"time" is movement through the fourth dimension. We move only in one direction but perceive a second direction. Since we're "stuck" moving through time in one direction only, its difficult to really grok it.

[littlebuhnee]

Have you ever read Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions? It really made me think a lot about how we perceive dimensions, and the limits we face with them.

It actually has nothing to do with romance, so I don't know why that's part of the title. ;)

[not_hothead_yet]

you know, I never finished it?
I started reading it I don't know how many times and it never "grabbed" me. WHich is weird since i love reading science and math non-fiction books and I love sci-fiction so you think I'd love it... it just never ...worked for me? I shoudl try again now that I have it on Kindle.

[littlebuhnee]

Yeah, it tends to drag a bit in the beginning with all the descriptions of how things work in Flatland. But when it starts delving into other dimensions, it got really interesting for me.