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keithcp
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Hello
I am not an expert in physics and only have minimal exposure.
However, I have been struck by something recently that I wanted t bring up with experts in the field.
I was discussing with a colleague the other day, the ability to imagine 3 dimensions. My colleague stated that most people are unable to do this.
This brought me to my curious thought. I'll try to explain using a real world example;
If I am standing in a room, how do I know that the room in which I view real objects is truly 3 dimensional? Of course, based on my presence in the room many times before allows me to know that there are truly 3 dimensions based on my past experience being in the room and touching objects.
Lets say there was an incredible artist or some form of extremely advanced computer animation that could depict a 3 dimensional view, leading one to believe that they were seeing 3 dimensions when in fact there would only be 2 dimensions presented through this art or advanced imagery.
I'm sure I sound crazy but my point is this;
How do we know that we actually live in a 3D world aside from experiencing what we believe to be 3 dimensions based on past experience.
Whats to say that everything we actually see is in fact only 2 dimensions and we are somehow "tricked" into believing it is 3D.
Feel free to provide any insight.
Thanks for reading
I am not an expert in physics and only have minimal exposure.
However, I have been struck by something recently that I wanted t bring up with experts in the field.
I was discussing with a colleague the other day, the ability to imagine 3 dimensions. My colleague stated that most people are unable to do this.
This brought me to my curious thought. I'll try to explain using a real world example;
If I am standing in a room, how do I know that the room in which I view real objects is truly 3 dimensional? Of course, based on my presence in the room many times before allows me to know that there are truly 3 dimensions based on my past experience being in the room and touching objects.
Lets say there was an incredible artist or some form of extremely advanced computer animation that could depict a 3 dimensional view, leading one to believe that they were seeing 3 dimensions when in fact there would only be 2 dimensions presented through this art or advanced imagery.
I'm sure I sound crazy but my point is this;
How do we know that we actually live in a 3D world aside from experiencing what we believe to be 3 dimensions based on past experience.
Whats to say that everything we actually see is in fact only 2 dimensions and we are somehow "tricked" into believing it is 3D.
Feel free to provide any insight.
Thanks for reading