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To
better understand higher dimensions, here I
will briefly discuss the two-dimensional stickman
model to better understand our three dimensional
world and subsequent dimensions. Edwin Abbot
first proposed multi-dimensional theories in
his science fiction novel "Flatland", written
over one hundred years ago. In this model, there
are two guards and a prisoner in a two-dimensional
jail cell. The guards can see the prisoner through
the peephole that they have. However, I, a three
dimensional being, could simply "peel" the prisoner
right out of the jail cell and the guards would
just think that he disappeared into thin air
(remember, the stickmen can NOT see me at all,
because I'm in the third dimension). Similarly,
if we stuck a 3D triangle through the 2D world,
the 2D beings would never know the object was
a triangle - they would just think that it is
a line, going from small to large. Perhaps the
2D stickman would call the disappearance of
the prisoner a "miracle" or "God's work" or
"the unknown"? Like the stickman model, as we
can see through the stickman's jail, the fourth
dimensional entity can clearly see through things
that would be opaque to us, such as the house
we were previously talking about! Perhaps one
could access the light that shined inside the
closed doors of the house through the fourth
dimension. Maybe they could even hold it, or
alter it. That would then give them the ability
to "see through closed walls", which is a common
theme of being in a higher dimension. And if
the fourth dimensional being has power over
light, it must be able to travel faster than
light. Now let us try to understand the higher
dimensional occurrences in our dimension, the
third dimension. Do you think they do not exist?
You are mistaken, in fact, they exist everywhere!
We will get to that soon.
What
is important to understand about the stickman
model is that a "higher dimension" is partly
characterized by activities that cannot be explained
in terms of the current dimension.
With the second dimension example, the stickman
sees shapes become bigger and smaller out of
nowhere. He sees things appear and disappear.
He sees the creation of matter out of thin air
in his second dimensional world. In other words,
this is what is paranormal or even an action
the second dimensional being would think was
produced by God. Since he lives in the second
dimension, he cannot explain what is happening
when I play with his universe. He doesn't see
or know that I am playing with his universe
- he only sees unusual activity. Now let us
examine our own world - the 3rd dimension. What
are the strange or unusual occurrences that
we cannot explain in our universe? Where are
the "lines" that appear out of knowhere
in our world, as they did when I stuck a 3-D
triangle through the stickman's universe? Let's
look at the animate and the inanimate. The inanimate
being rocks, soil, water, buildings, mountains,
etc. On the other hand, the animate are humans,
plants, fire, wind, etc. Since inanimate things
such as rocks are simple to explain, just like
the two dimensional objects in the two dimensional
stickman's world (such as the jail cell, etc),
occurrences such as growth, reproduction, consciousness,
and things that are "random" and "unpredictable"
are called life in our world. Life is the unusual
and unexplainable entity in OUR universe - in
other words, life is the three dimensional man
sticking a 3D triangle through the 2 dimensional
man's world, except in this case, it is the
fourth dimensional man sticking a fourth dimensional
"triangle" object in our three-dimensional world.
We cannot understand completely or even see
the fourth dimensional object, we can only see
its strange, unexplainable aftereffects in our
three dimensional world. Those effects are growth,
reproduction, consciousness, randomness, etc.
We
can therefore say that life in the 3rd dimension
is controlled by entities in what we can call
the "fourth dimension".
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