What superpowers would you choose?

[SophiaSimon]

Healing others sounds nice, but if you can bring cures of whatever from the future to the current world you heal much more than you can touch in a lifetime.

Right, it takes a lot less time to heal everybody if you can just get a cure from the future out to the mass public instead of having to go around touching everybody. This is taking for granted I can find a cure somewhere in the future...I see in the future that the only cure to a future pandemic was created and lost forever in the past...

I'm curious to know how I could affect the universe by being able to visualize more than 3 dimensions. I can't visualize it, so its the most dubious. It might be like a terrible head trip. As long as I have the power to NOT use my superpower, I might choose that one. If I had that stuck on loop, I think I'd pass.

 

[mfb]

It is possible to get some reasonable intuition about 4-dimensional objects, and I guess it is not limited to those. No superpower necessary, just a lot of practice. There is nothing in particular that would stop us imagining things in higher dimensions, our brains are just not used to it.

 

[jackwhirl]

With immortality, regeneration and healing touch I could cut myself in half enough times for there to be enough of me to heal everyone. I don't think I'm that generous.

Immortality, healing touch, and teleportation. Maybe I'd make deliveries to the ISS, or Mars.

 

[SophiaSimon]

It is possible to get some reasonable intuition about 4-dimensional objects, and I guess it is not limited to those. No superpower necessary, just a lot of practice. There is nothing in particular that would stop us imagining things in higher dimensions, our brains are just not used to it.

I can imagine the difference between 3D and 4D the same way that I can imagine the difference between 2D and 3D. I would think that 4D systems would just be those that are, to me, so incredibly large that there is a need for another dimension to measure them. I'm not sure if this is correct though.

 

[mfb]

Is a 3D grain of sand "larger" than a 2D football field?
Higher-dimensional things tend to be more complex, but that is not always true.

 

[SophiaSimon]

Is a 3D grain of sand "larger" than a 2D football field?

No, I suppose a step up in a dimension isn't just larger. I mistakenly put myself in place of the 3D observer looking down on the 2D, but even then I guess 3D isn't just larger than 2D.

Higher-dimensional things tend to be more complex, but that is not always true.

I don't intuitively pick up on this. Do you mean that mathematically some 4D object may be easier to analyze than some 3D object?

 

[mfb]

A 4 D hypercube is certainly easier than a 3 D object with a complex shape.

Also, sometimes higher dimensions have great symmetries, like packing hyperspheres in 8 and 24 dimensions.

 

[ComplexVar89]

My choices show off my ten-year-old brand of aesthetics. :P

(In my case, I will further stipulate that the powers are only available when wearing a suit, in the style of the Kamen Rider franchise. I don't see this to be in violation of the caveat rule, because Kamen Rider is exactly what I think about when I think "powers".)

You will have a superhuman strength.

I'd need this one to be a Rider, since ALL Riders have it.

You will be able to move at any speed you like and is physically possible (physics still applies, especially the theory of relativity)

Clock-up. (Kamen Rider Kabuto) [Similar visual effect, not the in-story explanation which would definitely violate physical law.]

You will be able to control fire. This includes never feeling too hot or too cold.

This better include the ability to create explosions at a distance. "Explosion, now!" (Kamen Rider Wiseman)