Recent content by Mr_Phil_Osophy

He even makes reference to the fictional creature trying to explain extra dimensions to other 2 dimensional creatures and how they would mock him for it, pat him on the back and ask him to show it too them while dismissing it as ludicrous. I think that moment was rather telling towards the...

No but he also never suggested it wasn't. He left it quite open and never shut it down as complete poetry or story telling. He was exploring something very interesting, and as far as I could make it, was open to the possibility.

Can I ask, if its completely unscientific, why is it something that Carl Sagan explored at all? His fields of expertise were Astronomy astrophysics cosmology astrobiology space science planetary science Surely he wouldn't have entertained the idea if it was completely ridiculous/unscientific?

Yeah I was using mind as synonymous with brain here. I wasn't referring to anything metaphysical. Just trying to explore the possibility of such things being the case, or whether the scientific community knew enough to be able to right that off completely. Also, I wasn't suggesting the...

Ok, sorry.

To add to the above. The picture I was trying to paint, was that if we are the flat landers in Carl Sagan video, that our minds (if we were two dimensional creatures) would be structures that grow 'up' and 'down' into three dimensions, while our major sense organs existed in the 2 dimensional...

Ok, thank you. If not, its not a problem. I think @.Scott helped clear the problem up quite a lot for me. I guess I had one major question I was trying to explore: is the scientific community taking extra spatial dimensions seriously at all? This video by Carl Sagan is something I had in mind...

oh ok. Tell them I apologise if its blatantly obvious that I'm extending beyond my reach. Again, I'm currently very interested in the subject and so just trying to gauge where I need to investigate in order to get a better understanding.

whaaaa? Why did they delete it? I thought they moved things around if they were mis-categorised? Thank you for making this subject clearer for me. Sorry if I came across a bit simple. I'm just incredibly interested in this stuff and so I guess I got compelled to jump in the deep end before I...

Could it not possibly imply that sound wouldn't travel down such an object? Or that the object wouldn't vibrate? or am I misunderstanding what you're saying here?

How so? Yeah I wasn't suggesting they existed, I was just trying to visualise how a hypothetical long object would interact with a large mass as it approached it length ways. I understand at least that spacetime is not a uniform thing and differs in its relation to a mass. So I was trying to...

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this, I'm not sure I follow? what do you mean by the spacetime around a mass is spherically symmetric? Yeah I think my problem was that I was seeing it as a sort of displacement. In my head I don't see the vacuum of space as nothing, but as something which...

Ok, so the bending of space isn't proportionate the the shape of the mass that bends it. Is the degree to which the space can be considered curved increase with regards to distance to the mass? And how does time curvature affect an object? Is this to imply that time varies in some way depending...

I'm a complete rookie in this field so please correct me where I go wrong, I just really want a better understanding of this subject. So as far as I am aware, mass causes the space surrounding it to curve or bend. What I want to know is how much does it bend the space? is the bending of space...

Thank you. I'll head over there now. :)