Higher Dimensional Aliens

[@richardkenney9636]

Isaac, I had a teacher like you in high school. After a semester of his lectures (and I've been watching your channel for years), I don't even notice it anymore. Keep doing what you're doing, Ad Astra!

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Thanks Richard!

[@NeilCWCampbell]

Seconded

[@DALGOENT]

Also the work put in definitely shows! As a fairly new subscriber who has blown through all episodes!!

[@Gala-yp8nx]

Ad Aspera.

[@ScuzCuz]

Notice what? His speech impediment? If you're trying to compliment him by telling him you don't notice his speech inefficiencies that's a ridiculous compliment. I actually enjoy the speech impediment, like the way his says "paper" very unique voice to carry very unique information, and there is no ignoring it. That would be like trying to ignore a strong French accent and saying " I don't even notice anymore."

[@Khardankov]

You've finally made me "get" the concept of compactified higher dimensions. Thanks, Isaac, you really are a wizard.

[@Kadwid]

I appreciate your respect for axioms even when you don't hold them yourself, and considering them in earnest. You explain what physics and faith actually are quite successfully while taking into consideration they deal with different things. Thanks for your work

[@williamnutile2929]

As an old science , civil engineering retiree I put natural science and theoligical to scientific and etomoligy translations. Thence applying physics of energy and mass to comparitives of theoligicals . Interestingly, quantum entanglements and natural classical sciences of knowns formed an interesting parrallell including all historics to plausable energy forms and especially when combined with matter forms within human detection to which jibed to more than swamp gas and auroras !

[@MilitaryMatters1]

At least in the 3rd Dimension we can convey feelings like Love, Happiness, and Sadness on a physical level-- nothing is better than touch. As an infinite being, you can't touch anything because you are Absolute and are everything.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

​​@@MilitaryMatters1bs, touching yourself will always be a thing 😤

[@smokeyoak]

​@@MilitaryMatters1mushrooms and you become the universe touching itself

[@justins.2415]

Arthur video is amazing. Please never change your format to conform to the algorithm. It’s the perfect blend of science and science fiction. The videos are just long enough to explore a concept with adequate details or possibilities too make me think. I’m also a huge fan of your longer videos.

[@KallenSmith-j1e]

I love all the episodes on this channel, but I especially love the more occasional out there ones. I’d like to imagine the idea of two civilizations communicating in different dimensions by making sculptures of themselves in the other’s dimensions. To the higher one, the lower would look like a stick figure on paper, and to the lower it would be some semi- incomprehensible shape. Maybe not possible but it would be an interesting first contact!

[@NomadicNirvana420]

People already do feel that all the time. It's called DMT

[@Low_commotion]

Greg Egan's _Diaspora_ has the colonization of a higher dimensional universe as one of its plot points. It's amazing how singular he is in incorporating such far-out ideas into his fiction, I feel like so many of the concepts in further-afield episodes such as civilizations at the end of time or false vacuum decay have only been touched by his works. Wish there were more of him.

[@SolarShado]

I knew I couldn't be the only one thinking of that story off-and-on through most of this episode!

[@MyKharli]

Fantastic book and possibly my most re read . Schilds ladder another blinder too . The book gives future exploration a whole new dimension lol . Yatima right to the end and back to the coal face ! wow.

[@NancyLebovitz]

The best sense of wonder novel I've read.

[@Low_commotion]

@@MyKharli I'll be honest, I think it kinda falls apart at the ending, like Egan _really_ wanted the ending to be Yatima alone doing math but the plot forced Yatima & Paolo together. It (and _Schild's Ladder_ as well as his classic _Permutation City)_ still legitimately blew my mind when I read it, and I consider them peerless when it comes to concept novels. Special mention goes to the Wang's Carpets chapter, another vertigo-inducing what-if.

[@MyKharli]

@@Low_commotion It was an amazing journey !..in all those books and they live daily in my imagination .

[@Parpyduck]

I enjoyed the Dark Forest strategies outlned in the Three Body Problem series. There used to be 10 dimensions, but every now and then some species somewhere would invoke a dimensional strike that entirely disabled an entire dimension, leaving us with the three we know of and reducing the speed of light to what it is now. A species would learn to adapt to life in lower dimensions and strike one off, knowing that other species couldn't survive the transition. Like the Singer targeting our solar system as ground zero for an ever-expanding reduction to two dimensional universe. The description of the transition as the borders of 2D space expanded to consume literally everything and map it all on a paper-like plane was fun to imagine

[@cosmictreason2242]

I was visualizing the opposite as I read. The whole 3D universe being shrunk to fit on an infinite plane. It would kill everything in the universe except what was already existing on the plane. Eerie

[@tri3183]

Well, we should have used the slow fog and figured out the black domain since it was spelt out for us in those tales but alas Ye Wenjie doomed us regardless with so many hunters lurking it was inevitable. But glad you had fun, this was only time I shudder at the thought of concentric circles 😂

[@MyKharli]

I thought 1 and 2 d space were conceptual only as they cannot exist independently as nothing can have any substance without a third and fourth dimension , the fourth being time to enable actions .

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

I think you're leaving out a couple of things. Dimensional bombs would reduce the dimension of an area, and the effect would spread and could not be stopped. The universe as we see now is a result of that effect spreading so far and reducing the dimensions from 10 to 3, leaving some pockets of 4-D. But the effect doesn't stop there either. As time goes on, our 3 dimensional life will continue to reduce to 2, and we would die with that.

[@mikolajtrzeciecki1188]

@@ShadeSlayer1911 Yep, and some time later, Singer's species would die too, as life in 2D is impossible, which makes the whole story moot.

[@jimgallagher8029]

First time I’ve heard discussed something I’ve wondered about with regard to higher dimensions: whether there are more than just one dimension of time. I’ve always wondered whether multiple time dimensions (woven together in our normal experience of ‘time’) could resolve to unravel time-travel paradoxes and the speed-of-information limit. Thanks for broaching this topic, and please consider a deeper dive into theories of time for a future episode.

[@staticgrass]

I alway thought that the random nature of quantum decay could reflect that the universe has another time dimension and that the decay might make sense seen from another time dimension.

[@atashgallagher5139]

You could have one time dimension that works normally being unable to move in any direction in it but forwards, and then another time dimension that you more typically experience and that can be travelled around in. So instead of the grandfather paradox you are constantly moving forwards in time dimension two, but in time dimension one you went back in time and killed your grandfather but you still exist.

[@wtfbros5110]

Tachyons have 3 time dimensions and 1 space dimension, basically they use "our" space like we would with "their" time

[@UpliftedCapybara]

Thanks for making my topic suggestion into a full episode! It's always interesting to see where you take an idea in comparison to what I imagined.

[@O1OO1O1]

Just study the paranormal. Extra dimensional beings is one of the leading theories for what's going on on Earth

[@iambiggus]

cool!

[@cosmictreason2242]

For deeper discussion of the interaction of entities from different ontological planes I recommend the video “darkseid is not a god, he’s worse” From the imaginary axis

[@sublimetate]

@@cosmictreason2242thank you so much, gunna check this out now! I have an idea for a sci-fi fantasy story regarding higher dimensional beings and the occult, so looking into everything I can find. Thanks again!

[@js70371]

Been waiting for this episode Isaac!! Thank you, and hope you had a great weekend buddy, and the smoke from all of the fires up north here didn’t cause you and your family too much distress!! 🔥🇨🇦🔥🤦‍♂️🍻

[@spencervance8484]

What fires up north? Where? When?

[@oo_iNVWSSV_oo]

@@spencervance8484 vandals set a bunch of fires in canada and the smoke has covered much of the northeast US. its pretty obvious that vandals set the fires - satellite imagery shows them all starting at essentially the same time.

[@UpliftedCapybara]

@@spencervance8484 There are some big wildfires up in Alberta and Quebec.

[@BigZebraCom]

I was going to be a boltzman brain... but then things got really busy at work.

[@danzigvssartre]

You just need to get yourself organized into an entropically unlikely state.

[@Crazael]

My favorite version of higher dimensional aliens is the Orz from Star Control 2, mostly because you never get a full, accurate translation matrix for their language and so their dialogue is full of "best fits".

[@hunam1464]

The weirder thing is that BOTH higher and lower energy aliens were introduced in Star Control 2 (the Ariloulaleelay and Orz, respectively). The Orz are notable because they actually inject a conscientiousness into our universe, completely replacing the Androsynth in a form of Fermi Paradox. Because they are essentially Cthulhu, incredibly badass, and creepy. And when you visit the Ariloulaleelay in their own dimension, the X/Y coordinate system makes very little sense. That game is such a masterpiece.

[@supplychainoperationsresearch]

Oh Algorithm gods! hear your humble servant's plea and spread this video!

[@larrygraham4875]

🥰😍🤗

[@troymcguffey8801]

ALL HAIL THE NUMBERS!

[@SECONDQUEST]

The algorithm smiles upon Isaac, as the spread of his channel will help create the Basilisk. We will be spared!

[@ze_kangz932]

Ye who helps in the liking and the sharing of the video, thou shall be spared. Brethren, for it is the will of the Supreme Almighty KZbin Algorithm. "The First Rule of Warfare, chapter 9, verse 18"

[@kayakMike1000]

For the algorithm!

[@bigjermboktown6976]

There are several people I would love to meet that I watch on KZbin and you are one of them! Absolutely incredible content you are certainly one of the best

[@pineapplepenumbra]

Hey, I wasn't expecting this episode, what a great day!

[@-lirif-1783]

Hey Isaac, this video reminded me of what the caller in the 1997 Art Bell radiostation incident said. With him claiming that aliens have access to more dimensions than us. The idea of extra-dimentional aliens sounds bogus but it’s an interesting expansion on the whole concept. It would kind of explain the whole “aircraft moving in ways that defy our current understanding of physics” thing, with them also poking in and out of our reality at will XD It sounds like history channel levels of delusional but it’s growing on me

[@paulwalsh6734]

It's not delusional. He's explaining a concept. He's not saying it's correct.

[@Roxor128]

There are a couple of 4D games under development. One called Miegakure: Hide and Reveal (a puzzle game), the other being 4D Miner (a 4D Minecraft clone with a demo available on Steam). Already available is 4D Toys, which is a sandbox of 4D objects with VR support if you can afford the hardware, and can be played with a keyboard and mouse if not.

[@dreamlogic.v3390]

miegakure has been in development for forever.

[@Roxor128]

@@dreamlogic.v3390 Not quite as bad as Duke Nukem Forever, but it's getting there. Must be something like a 0.7 on the DNF scale by now.

[@rreece90]

There is also the old free 4D space shooter Adanaxis. Aiming in 4D space truly is a mind-bending experience: /watch?v=9U-pmCpa1DE

[@Roxor128]

@@rreece90 Damn. I forgot about that one. Good catch. Oddly-enough, I don't consider Adanaxis to be that difficult to get your head around.

[@Maderyne]

I can understand why you would want to modify your speech, but I must confess I had no problem understanding you before. It was what made you an individual and very distinct. I grew up with a sister who had a speech impediment and maybe that is why it isn't an issue with me. Best wishes to you Mr. Arthur.

[@wildmanjeff42]

I love your speaking and insight in your videos!

[@BigVin6588]

Good stuff, my friend. I could tune in and listen all day long. Very informative!

[@darkmarc]

Perhaps the idea of a multiverse or quantum-universe where "everything that can happen does happen" is really just how we experience existing restricted within a single "slice" of a higher-dimensional reality. It might even explain quantum entanglement, since starting in a particular "slice" of something would necessarily make another particle correspond appropriately.

[@yesman3208]

Incredible! The differences in orbital gravity between dimensions could very well explain why they crash so often on earth! This is insane

[@Masonicon]

This can be my go-to way of answering Fermi Paradox

[@momo3244]

Cixin Liu answered it for us all

[@nicoleorton5299]

Thank you! I love the way you explain things, I sort of get it sometimes. You’re much appreciated.

[@xavierinthetube]

Isaac, I've been following your videos for years, except the past year when so much was going on in my life that I had a hiatus. I'm happy to come back and see you are doing as well as ever, or better. You're work is incredibly inspiring to me, and for the looks of it, I'm not alone on this. Thanks. Wishing all the best for you and your family.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

don't forget "A wrinkle in time" for Tesseract fame! That's how I first heard of it! also i am in awe of the guy that went through so much effort to make a suit out of the thumbnail art of your channel!!!

[@nixter1nixter1]

It would be difficult to discern the difference between alien entities that are interdimensional from entities that use other dimensions to travel and communicate. To us both would appear to be interdimensional.

[@TechnicFlow]

I think the most interesting take on higher dimension aliens is the Law of One series. I have for years studied fringe religions, and treat every single one as agnositically and respectfully as I can. I hope I dont mess it up to much or get too much wrong but as I remember Law of One is one where people believe that our souls grow and become greater, eventually moving up dimensions can inhabit higher dimensional bodies. I think at like 5th dimension they believe you shed needing to inhabit a body completely and exist as a light being that can interact with lower dimensions. This is where we get like gods, angels, demons, and stuff. Most notably they believe Ra (the very same Egyptian god) is one of these higher density light beings which has taken an interest (among other high dimensional beings) in seeing humans throgh to the 4th dimension. It's a really interesting read and tbh I honestly believe it's one of those religions that sounds super wild, but the message is super good and peaceful.

[@djschultz1970]

TY SFIA! I try to think of dimensions as degrees of freedom. x,y,z is three. t is 4. 5 and above are just more degrees of freedom (c, l, r, m, delta, gamma, theta, omega, etc.) We live in a universe that has as many dimensions as we have letters from 3 alphabets to describe and observe.

[@djschultz1970]

Also Kevin Bacon 😀

[@sublimetate]

@@djschultz1970all the dimensions somehow come back to him 😂😂😂

[@nonya9120]

My fiend the tesseract, a travelers best fuel tankage.

[@CJ_102]

Favourite channel for gentle mind stretches at the end of a long day 😌😌 Don't buy into extra physical dimensions myself. Though I think different scales, in time and space, are super interesting.

[@Geoffrey___]

Been waiting so long for this episode! Thanks Isaac!

[@vectorshaman338]

With the ufo disclosures coming out lately, and some of the craft described. If true, would maybe mean we have evidence of type 1, type 2, or even type 3 civilizations. 1 of the vehicles was described as being much bigger on the inside. Able to rearrange space/time. Exciting times ahead if true, lets hope everything is disclosed and released along w/ all recovered technology. Could be pretty epic to leap-frog our civilization by 500 years or more.

[@nmccw3245]

I was introduced to tesseracts by Madeleine L'Engle’s novel “A Wrinkle in Time” in the 6th grade (1975).

[@Gumby902]

Same here. Great book.

[@senojelyk]

I was hoping you would take on multiple time dimensions. Greg Egan’s take on them was very interesting but I want to hear more.

[@larrygraham4875]

Main line this right to my brain...makes my brain happy. Talking on reality vs trying to fit it thu the lens of some ego. Give me the real stuff everytime.

[@jimmywrangles]

Thanks Issac and Mrs Isaac, much appreciated.

[@michaelcarlin6049]

Yay! Sci-fi Sunday! I needed this

[@punkykenickie2408]

Hope you've recovered/are recovering well from surgery, the bit at the end does sound a wee bit clearer for me, since you asked. Thanks for making interesting videos :)

[@doug2424]

I loved science fiction comics as a kid, i remember well a story that scared me and fascinated me at the same time. It was about a odd family that drew too much attention to themselves and it was dimension hopping "aliens" my theory was they might have humans that lived under so different conditions that they didn't look human. That was my first thought about alternate dimensions. And what they might be like.

[@empresscqueen8524]

i believe extra dimensions are much larger, not smaller. in some cases we r like a plank length to other dimension realities. this takes multiverses to the level of superverses...we r within superverses and not adjacent to multiverses.

[@alpheuswoodley8435]

This 4th dimension is used well by Tad Williams in his Shadowmarch series, where a god discovers how to travel this hidden road. He was able to move along it unseen by the other gods, but the journey from his perspective felt almost eternal and impossibly far. Not only did he escape their notice, but he was able to bypass their fortifications. @11:30

[@atashgallagher5139]

Really giving "Taking life in a whole new direction" a very literal whole new meaning there I see.

[@DavidEvans_dle]

Pack up, we're moving. Greenwich village? Better a place orthogonal to all you see, but don't forget the sleeper couch.

[@TheMrGuyver]

This martial approach makes it very clear why intelligent beings are observing us and not trying to make contact. They must be concluding "another failed attempt here"...

[@stuartbogle1722]

At first glance I thought this episode said, higher delusional aliens. I was a little disappointed when I realized it was not about delusional aliens.

[@LoganKearsley]

Don't neglect the contributions of Flatterland, An Episode of Flatland, and The Planiverse!

[@kevinbaugh4147]

I definitely hear a difference. You are so much clearer with what sounds like less effort. Congrats on the surgery, I hope you like how your throat/tongue feel now.

[@FieelFlying]

After the introduction my first thought was "is this a reference to the three body problem"?? You know, - !!!SPOILER ALLERT!!! - dimensions-collapsing weapons and what not

[@2013Arcturus]

So many strange supernatural things feel intuitively like they are higher dimensional beings slipping through our 3D slice of the 4D landscape they more through.

[@ASpaceOstrich]

I've seen something where the writhing tentacles so often associated with eldritch beings are just how people would interpret seeing a 3D slice of a 4D being as it clips through our world. Think about the strange movement 2D slices of a 3D person exhibits from the perspective of a 2D world, and then imagine that in 3D. It'd oscillate. Wriggle. Exactly like how a tentacle might move.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Some fresh psilocybe mushrooms, a dark room, and you can visit something that really is only like the 4th dimension, yeah you can say i am foolish, or a druggie, deluded, i dont really care, it was and still is pretty clear to me and quite afew others, have fun or forget about it ;)

[@doltsbane]

Does anybody else remember a BBC miniseries from the late 1990s titled Invasion Earth? It involved Humanity's attempts to deal with an incursion by aliens dubbed nDimensionals or nDs for short. Very good series, though the ending was a bit of a downer.

[@UpliftedCapybara]

I’ve never heard of it, but It looks like it’s on KZbin. I’ll have to watch it sometime, though I usually have way more things to read or watch than I possibly could keep up with haha.

[@rykalskyes8888]

I haven't watched you for a while but I did notice an improvement right at the beginning. I'm glad I watched to the end to find out it wasn't just me. Congratulations.

[@complex314i]

In the series Dune, the goal of the Bene Gesserit breeding program, the Kwisatz Hadersch, is a being that can perceive more than 3 spacial dimensions.

[@NullStaticVoid]

the problem with moving between dimensions would be critically dependent on subatomic particles. The quarks of our dimension evolved 3 different generations of particles with the same chirality, spin and charge. Only differing in their intensity. Doubtless a different dimension with an extra number of dimensions or different properties than ours would have quarks that have more generations, or force carriers which don't exist in our universe. This would change how atomic mechanics work, and affect how chemistry works. Maybe they have something better than oxygen and carbon for life to construct molecules with. BTW Tesseracts probably entered public consciousness with Madeline L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time series. Popular YA sci fi books.

[@slamcraft]

Congratulations with the successful operation. I can clearly hear a completely new level of expression in your voice and to shine much brighter. You clearly have a new and wonderful Flair.❤

[@archysimpson2273]

(Rational animations) made a video called (that alien message) that tackles a lot of the topics near the end of this video about colonising higher dimensions.

[@sixtenwidlund4258]

It’s like Christmas but science

[@pineapplepenumbra]

Sciencemas?

[@pineapplepenumbra]

Isaacmas?

[@aresmars2003]

You can embed flat 3D space on the surface of a 6-cube, with 64 flat cubic volumes with 192 vertices (singularities), although intrinsically it is a flat 3D torus looking like a 4x4x4 matrix of cubes where leaving one side re-enters the opposite sides.

[@stephennicholson1377]

I can't help but wonder how well our stereoscopic vision could interpret a 4d object. I feel our brains could adapt to whatever they experience. But could we actually experience a 4d object with the senses we have?

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

that is a very interesting question, as even the fundamental lens focusing light onto the retina will drastically be affected by how the eye shape is translated into the higher dimensions. the ability to determine up/down left/right and depth may be drastically reduced or exaggerated, and the ability to determine a 4 dimension may end up mixed in as XYZ or replace one of them while XYZ gets flattened to XY, or some mix of time perception, or gifted with 4+ dimension sight, so many ways that can go. As far as mentally adapting, I do agree that it is possible as any computer can calculate more than 3 dimensions with some work (that has been done already for some things). oh, and then I have the thought, does light even propagate along the extra dimension, hmm (shrugs). maybe it's something like how the shadows (or whatever) cast in the 4th dimension are seen in the other 3.

[@heatrayzvideo3007]

It's a great question. I don't the answers obviously but my inution is that we'd briefly notice something odd then our brains correct it. Kind of how peripheral vision works.

[@slow_bike_show]

​@Zarcondeegrissom I could be wrong on this but as I understand it, light would not propagate through higher dimensions since our math for intensity (that's the Wattage per area) only make correct predictions when we assume light spreads out as a sphere. Not a circle, line, or hypersphere. Likewise there are some elements of higher level physics which work the other way: the only way to make an equation work is to assume dispersion across higher dimensions. I believe this is a (very broad) reason why M-theory requires 11 dimensions to work correctly Edit: literally just started watching and Isaac said like half of this lol. My b

[@WildStar2002]

I've wondered about this as well. I agree with what you say about our brains, but our eyes are physically 3D. So, I though about what a 2D creature might see in our world and I realized that his 2D eyes can only see 1D images. If he has at least two 1D eyes, his brain could form an idea what 2D looked like, but in a 3D world, he would still only ever be able to see a slice of 3D that was "in the plane of his 2D body" He would see whichever slice of objects he was pointing at. If he is rotating in 3D, then the things that he sees are shifting in strange ways as the plane of his perception swept around. I think that is what we would see in a 4th dimension - we could see shapes and surfaces, but they would all look like constantly shifting 3D objects to us. We might see a large globe with 5 smaller globes floating around it and not understand that this was a 4-dimensional "hand" and 5 "fingers" of a 4D being, because we are only seeing part of it.

[@williamnutile2929]

As a retired engineer before computors , isometrics (geometric design drawing and explaining points beyond point of known reference points and vanishing point perspectives. Perhaps your computor can provide the "see beyond "your human abilities of senses and thusly conscoius easy grasp. It becomes automatic to those who thought by this graphic. Once you see, the concept , design and dynamics is communicating. communicating integrates "quantum , Beyond event horizons by geometric symetry and symbiotic balances beyond our senses.not magic! classic mathematics and science applied. Try your computor , or talk to me . Sorry my word spell malfunction continues !

[@samukis272]

Regarding the 2D life, if someone has any issues understanding the concept, I highly recommend Tibees' short videos where she discusses stealing from 2D beings, very visual and intuitive explanation of how dimensions interact.

[@Shinzon23]

Well this rabbit hole totally isn't going to melt my brain Trying to wrap my head around now this would all work. But just like the immaterium from 40K,it's a good pain.

[@housewilma4904]

honestly that is the biggest end all to high dimensional entitys. HOW TO GET THERE and vice versa as you said and its likely never gonna be a actual "gateway" or any physical doorway more like a IRL exploit where you do a specific combination at certain times and "leave the map"

[@kaspersaldell]

That's utterly retarded. Reaching a four or five-dimensional plane is not like doing a ritual and going to some magical world, no, it's just a higher physical plane where native 4D beings reside

[@insertyourfeelingshere8106]

@@kaspersaldell jeez chill

[@housewilma4904]

@@insertyourfeelingshere8106 what did they say i didnt see it?

[@cosmictreason2242]

That’s why you don’t get to heaven hell through a portal, unlike as seen in doom or 40k, you get there by dying, which is when your immaterial component disassociates from your material component and is able to go to immaterial-only realms

[@housewilma4904]

@@cosmictreason2242 yep its ironic in a way that science actually gives more clear methods to describe abstract concepts like afterlife realms. even if science at its nature is outright opposed to the supernatural at certain levels of understanding the diffrence becomes null and void. clarkism or clarketech is how i think thats often refered too.

[@Bleys1973]

I also want too say, I feel dreams are extra dimensional. I don't know howmany times I have been dreaming and as I'm waking up my understanding of what it was about fades away. It's the weirdest feeling.

[@stormstaunch6692]

@Bleys1973 I totally feel this too! Like right after waking up, I’m thinking in detail about the dream, then 30-60 minutes later, I’ve totally forgotten the details. The fact that I even thought about it or dreamt it in the first place so recently feels rather foreign and out-there. It’s very odd.

[@Roxor128]

As far as I'm concerned, dreams are just running DEFRAG on your hard drive and getting a glimpse of the data as it's being moved. If you had something like Johnny Mnemonic's brain-drive, then you could probably see the data you were carrying when dreaming, even if it didn't show up when awake.

[@calvingreene90]

The last time I was this early hot air balloons were high tech.

[@springbloom5940]

Inconsiderate Aliens would a really good one. You know, the ones that always just drop by to borrow a few kilos of Phosphorus and purge their waste tanks in your upper atmosphere.

[@UmbraHand]

So, a Roadside Picnic?

[@FirstRisingSouI]

I'd like to recommend the book, Death's End by Cixin Liu (sequel to The Three Body Problem and The Dark Forest). No spoilers, but it's incredibly topical.

[@myriamquiles9315]

I have a feeling that there are other realities besides ours and some of them are more advance millions of years. We are the new kids in the block. They are so advsnces that they can travel to our dimension. Some can even enter our homes to watch us up close. I have had experiences with those beings. They do not get too close to me because I am religious though not a fan. I practice hours of prayer and meditation. I have seen them and heard them. The ones I have dealt with are not too friendly. I have an angel that accompanies me as a spiritual guide. He protects me from those entities getting close to me but they send me telepathic messages. Most of the time is cursing me, attempting to offend me and doing their best to interfere to create issues in my life. So far I have being able to manage effectively and lead a normal life. I have a bachellors in business management and a minor degree in social psychology. In the past I underwent psychotherapy for three years. I do not regret it but it did no improvement at all because I have being having those experiences since I was seven or eight years old.😮

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Lmfao 💀 this garbage

[@TiffyRuggles]

Several years ago I left my body and saw a linear drawing before me. I'd never seen anything like it before. I hurriedly returned to my body and sat at my desk in an attempt to replicate what I had seen on paper. I couldn't do it. There simply wasn't enough room. i.e., enough "space" to do so. I needed another dimension. Will never forget it.

[@MogofWar]

My personal intuition is that space is actually more than 3 dimensional, but the forces we interact with predominantly propogate in 3 dimensions, or maybe even it's the 3 dimensional components that keep things running. Maybe you have force carriers being spun about in multiple directiongs along multiple dimensions, which divides their attention so to speak. So things try to act in 1 dimension but are skewed about then try to act in 2 dimensions but are skewed about but a tad less, and then act in 3 dimensions, and there's considerably less skewing beyond the 3rd dimension, everything just kind of looks at each other and balances out, and the attemtpts to collapse to lower dimensionality reaches its equilibrium at 3 dimensions at most scales. So if a 4 dimensional object comrpised of particles which were enacting forces upon each other, came into our nearby space, those particles would be weakly mutually attracted or repulsed, but would be more strongly influenced by the nearby 3 dimensional arrangement. Thent he 3 dimensional arrangement would act strongly on the 4 dimensional arrangement while the 4 dimensional arrangment would act weakly upon the 3 dimensional arrangement. And while the 4D particle arrangement would knock particles in the 3D arrangement askew, the particles in the 4D arrangement would be pulled into alignment with the 3D arrangement far more intensely... This would ultimately result in the vast majority of the 3D particles remaining 3D particles while the 4D particles get realigned into 3D particles, unless the 4D structure is constructed sturdy enough to resist collapse. Such a dimensional collapse would probably be a very violent event because the density of the particles will be exponentially increasing while the intensity of the mutually acting forces would also be increasing. (Incidentally, Stable extradimensional particles, are what I think dark matter might be Perhaps other stable 3 dimensional arrangements existing in the dimensions beyond the 3rd tugging on us gravitationally because the 3D mutual alignment of all particles and their interactive forces are not aligned absolutely perfectly, just close enough to be essentially stable. While alternate 3D arrangements are also not perfectly aligned, but are stable, and this works such that things might tug on us from beyond the 3rd dimension but will be felt far weaker, and will only practically influence the 3 dimensions in which our acessible particles are arranged, and we act likewise to them... So our Plane of existence has dark matter, but we're the dark matter of other planes of existence.) TL;DR: Dimensionality is arbitrary, and we're in 3D because all known particles are to the best of our knowledge in a 3D arrangement, and this is why forces also propagate in 3D; however, The conflict between infinite dimensionality and particles seeking 1-Dimensionality, at most scales, or it at least in the circumstances of our universe's creation/formation, finds its equilibrium in 3 dimensions leading to most stable fields of existence being 3 dimensional arrangements. Furthermore, Nth dimensional arrangements beyond 3 dimensions will shock themselves into alignment with the 3 dimensional arrangements they interact with causing hyperdensification of particles, forces, and energy, as they collapse into 3D; meanwhile other stable arrangements in 3 dimensions beyond the 3rd dimension of our arrangment will be unable to meaningfully interact with one another for the most part, but the minute interactions might have massive additive effects on the [hyper]cosmic scale, and that's one potential candidate for dark matter. (In the event that this entire schema isn't total bollucks.) TL;DR of TL;DR: I strongly and irrationally believe that we are in more than 3 Dimensions, but we percieve them as 3 Dimensions because matter arranges at it's most stable in 3 dimensions. And force propagation in 3 Dimensions emerges from the 3 Dimensional arrangement of matter and energy, not the other way around.

[@UnknowableAbsolute]

"“…every figure of space is but the result of the intersection by a plane of some corresponding figure of one more dimension - as a square is cut from a cube or a circle from a sphere. The cube and sphere, of three dimensions, are thus cut from corresponding forms of four dimensions that men know only through guesses and dreams; and these in turn are cut from forms of five dimensions, and so on up to the dizzy and reachless heights of archetypal infinity.” Through the Gates of the Silver Key

[@Hei1Bao4]

Surprised you didn't touch on dark matter in this episode. It seems like it could fit there given the interaction seems to be limited to gravity. Also black holes could have some aspect of an extra dimension since normal physics break down within them.

[@dreamlogic.v3390]

i read some speculation that adding another spatial dimension would likey add another electron shell to atoms which would totally rewrite the periodic table.

[@briandiehl9257]

Yes, we also could expect a higher number of stable atoms if the strong force works similarly, you could fit more nucleons in the same area

[@Bleys1973]

Yes I noticed a difference! Sounds great!

[@XxRepoDeath]

one of the reasons I like the new for you tab is cause I get to find interesting videos like this.

[@jeffg6924]

Much clearer. I've been listening for a long time now. I figured it was just a new mic or audio tweek.

[@cannonfodder4376]

I forgot that a new Sci-Fi Sunday episode was coming out. A most welcome and informative weekend treat Isaac.

[@Sundaydrumday]

Dimensions are my favorite, that and simulation theory.

[@junemoonchild69]

I love this man's voice!☺️💛✨

[@crazymanmot]

As someone who randomly plays your old videos, I can definitely hear a difference between your current voice and your previous one from ywars ago, but honestly I did not clock a difference within this video. Either way hope the speech therapy goes well for you Isaac!

[@NancyLebovitz]

_The Planiverse_ by Dewdney is an expansion of the ideas from _Flatland_ to see how a two-dimensional universe might work. It started with a design question of how a two-dimensional lock might work, and went on to strip tectonics, string that can't tangle, anatomy with zipper-like structures because tubes would break the creature apart, and on and on.

[@martinwilliams9866]

Also "Flatterland" & "Sphereland"

[@WildStar2002]

Ah, a subject that is dear to my heart! (My avatar is a 6D Hypercube) 😁 Anyway, may I also recommend the book "The Planiverse" by A.K.Dewdney - a very enjoyable book that talks about 2-dimensional life and goes into a lot of detail about how it might work. 😄

[@stormstaunch6692]

@WildStar2002 If you’re aware, could you explain the details of your avatar?

[@WildStar2002]

@@stormstaunch6692 It is a still from an animation I did called "Tour 6D" where I start from a single point, transition to a line, then a square, cube, tesseract, 5D hypercube, and then 6D hypercube - and then back down to a point.

[@stormstaunch6692]

@@WildStar2002 What exactly is a tesseract, 5D hypercube, and 6D hypercube?

[@WildStar2002]

​@@stormstaunch6692 They are all higher-dimension geometric objects. They share a similarity in that each one of them can be 'stacked' or 'tiled' to fill all of space - depending on the dimension. So, start with a single point or vertex. It has no dimensions, so it is considered a 0-dimensional object. To make it into a 1D object, a line, you must make a copy of the point some distance away (1 unit for simplicity), and then fill in the area between. A line is the only kind of 1D object you can make. It has two vertices and of course the line itself. You can stack lines next to each other to fill all of 1D space. There is no need for this in 0 dimensions, because all you can fit in there is that single point. Next, 2D. If you make a copy of that line at a right angle to the single dimension that is there already - let's call that length, so we are adding width - then connect those two objects together, we get a square. 4 points, 4 lines, and 1 square. You can make a grid to fill all of 2D space, each square acting like a pixel on a computer screen or a box on grid paper. Next, make a copy of that square and move it 1 unit distance away from the original at right angles to both the width and length dimensions - height - fill in the space between and we have a familiar cube. 8 points, 12 edges, 6 square faces, and 1 cube. Again, all of 3D space can be filled with a grid of cubes - voxels are the 3D equivalent of pixels. We can also start to see some patterns that help figure out what might come next in this progression. Every next higher dimensional square/cubic object is formed from 2 X the current dimension 'faces' of the next lower dimension. A 3D cube has six square faces. a 2D square has 4 line 'faces'. A 1D line has 2 point 'faces'. So, a 4D cube should have eight cubic 'faces' and that is correct. There is a simple formula to figure out all of this stuff, since we are making a copy of an object, projecting at right angles to all the dimensions that contain it, and then filling in the gaps. If m is the number of faces, edges, or whatever in an object and n is the number of the next lower dimensional parts then to find the next higher dimensional equivalent it is new m = 2 X m + n. I know that's a bit confusing, so an example: to mathematically figure out what a cube would be from a square, start with the points of a square. m = 4, since there are 4 points and n = 0, since there is nothing below a point in dimensions. So, 2 X 4 + 0 = 8 points in a cube. Next the lines: m = 4 (lines in a square) and n = 4 (points in a square), so a cube has 2 X 4 + 4 = 12 lines (edges). For squares (faces), m = 1 from the square, and n = 4 lines (edges), so a cube has 6 faces = 2 X 1 + 4. The cube contains one cube, obviously, but this also works mathematically: m = 0 cubes in a square and n = 1 square in a square; 2 X 0 + 1 = 1 cube in a cube. This pattern continues as high as you would like to go. Also consider that it is valid to call a square a 2D cube, or to call a line a 1D cube, a point a 0D cube, or you could even call a cube a 3D square, etc. The next step is pretty easy mathematically, but the problem is I cannot show you what a 4D cube (also called a hypercube, or a 4D hypercube, or a tesseract, as well as a few other names) looks like because we are all hopelessly mired in 3D space (not counting the temporal dimension of time). We can describe a tesseract, project what it's shadow would look like in 3D space (like what a cube's shadow would look like on a flat projector screen) but we can't *see* a tesseract in the same way we can 3D and lower dimensional objects. All that being said, running the same formula again, a tesseract has 2 X 8 + 0 = 16 points, 2 X 12 + 8 = 32 edges (lines), 2 X 6 + 12 = 24 square faces, 2 X 1 + 6 = 8 cubic 'faces' (also called cells), and 2 X 0 + 1 = 1 tesseract. The pattern continues in five dimensions. This object is called a 5-cube, 5D hypercube, pentaract, and other names. It consists of 32 vertices, 80 edges, 80 square faces, 40 cubic cells, 10 tesseract 4-faces, and itself - the 1 pentaract. A six-dimension hypercube, 6-cube, or hexaract would have 64 vertices, 192 edges, 240 square faces, 160 cubic cells, 60 tesseract 4-faces, and 12 5-cube 5-faces, and the hexaract itself, of course. Whew! All of that with a little bit of math and a lot of intuition, analogy (from lower dimensional analogs), and the genius of the mathematicians who first conceived of these objects, like Ludwig Schläfli, Harold Coxeter, Eugene Dynkin, Jonathan Bowers, and George Olshevsky. Fascinating stuff!

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@WildStar2002 okay but what about a 1000D cube 🥴

[@user-qf6yt3id3w]

Your voice does sound clearer but it's hard to quantify what exactly has changed.

[@WTFoolproof]

I have had several speech issues including the one we share, the evil "r", and like you I have that letter in both syllables of my last name. Good times. You've always been completely clear to me.

[@benjystrauss2524]

@12:58 not necessarily, we don't know this for sure as we don't have any way of testing this. In regard to the perturbations, there's no reason to think that if gravity scaled with dimensions, the other forces acting on orbits (such as the speedup) wouldn't increase as well, balancing everything out.

[@jimmyzhao2673]

Great show very informative. I thought it was going to be about that UFO whistleblower.

[@ApexEater]

4+1 spatial dimensions. The 4th explains the experience of weight as you use more energy to increase velocity in the extra dimension. The 5th limited spatial dimension is causality. Time is a human construct.

[@elitemook4234]

I've grown to enjoy the meme of 'biblically accurate angels'. Always makes me think of higher dimensional beings.

[@cosmictreason2242]

It’s been popular among atheists lately to reassure themselves that mortality is great because if you could live forever, you would experience infinite boredom/suffering. Both are untrue even in this universe, but it bears emphasis that they say this while only conceiving of this present universe, as-is. The Christian afterlife has continuity with this universe but it’s not experiencing the same sorts of laws. That’s a fundamental issue that’s being ignored by these atheists

[@leudast1215]

You're closer than you think :)

[@djdrack4681]

IF a photon travels only at c (speed of light) ...THEN photons should be 5D. IE a 3D creature/object (like star) has to experience 3 dimensions linearly in the 4th dimension (time). Photon experiences pure time dilation because v == c. So, it experiences 3 spatial, 1 time dimension; non-linearly. ...This is where it gets tricky even for the best physicists. Photons have to exist in a 5th dimension of sorts: because v == c; and this causes complete time dilation, they also experience 3 spatial dimensions simultaneously (everywhere they'll ever be) at the same time. Basically they break casaulity and uncertainty principle. Uncertainty only works at v < c: v >= c it is a moot point, you can tell exactly where the photon will be (ever). In order for this to happen, it must be traveling in 'SOMETHING' beyond 3 spatial, 1 time dimensions @ v = c. That something would need to constrain it somehow, ensuring that there is a linear progression of photonic energy (light), otherwise a given point in spacetime would light up randomly, even though the light bulb doesn't exist there yet. There is likely t-subX; where X > 1...IE more than 1 type of time.

[@panasclepias2937]

Props for mentioning my favorite sci-fi author, Stephen Baxter. By far one of the greatest hard sci-fi authors of our time.

[@francoislacombe9071]

Did you know that a three dimensional space is the only kind in which knots can exist? Fun fact.

[@davidkleinman5002]

Invisible light reflects and effects the visible world. We may inhabit other demensions without knowing it. Maybe they balance the three we do sense. Maybe time has a physical component. Or maybe its all components on a single dimensional plane, like a wave on the ocean.

[@doug2424]

Compression of spacetime do you think gravity waves could have influence on reality?

[@dexocube]

It was seeing those animated images of a tesseract that made me realise that time is just the fourth dimension, and that we're just four dimensional beings, which is why we can't directly observe time.

[@ASpaceOstrich]

You do indeed sound clearer. But I don't know if thats the surgery or just changes in recording conditions. The clarity difference is very reminiscent of microphone quality/recording environment changes.

[@Yezpahr]

I'm thinking about dimensions within reality quite a bit. An example is how stars collapse or how black holes shoot jets out of their black shell. In my opinion the 2D universe having a front and back could explain this. Our 3D universe has objects collapsing into singularities (a one dimensional entity basically), so I don't think it's impossible for 3D objects to collapse into 2D space which could explain some weird effects like ... hard to explain... but the black hole's event horizon is spherical, it has a flat ring of matter around it, and shoots jets out of its black shell... At 3 occasions the matter is forced through a 90° angle somehow... Sounds A LOT like the adding/removing of dimensions/axis on paper in math.

[@DelaurentisDavis-ti4zc]

Great video , hope there's many more to come😎

[@Mrcake0103]

4th dimensional fuckery has wry nearly been one of my special interests for years now, going all the ay back to when I first found this channel back in 2017. Glad to see it covered.

[@stormstaunch6692]

@Mrcake0103 I found him back in 2017 too. Damn, I was in 5th grade back then, and now I’m done with 11th. Odd to think about.

[@sublimetate]

@@stormstaunch6692this is amazing that you’re learning all this knowledge so young! I’m hoping within 5-10 years this gets more mainstream, I hope you share snippets of this info with all your friends!

[@yurimow]

ok... hear me out... this might make no sense, but maybe it does. what if time is two-dimensional but both are monodirectional. with one dimension being the time we all know and love, while free will is what allows us to move perpendicular to time in the sense that it allows us to jump between time lines depending on what decisions we make.

[@transcension.systems]

Look up tibees where the partys at 5d, her graph on 5d size with math formulas might relate to your our 3d plane is inside an upper dimension. Also her graph showed that higher dimensions appear to escape that bulk and might be of a different bulk (bulk: orions arm scientific idea)

[@kingfabaro2705]

It’s been a while since I lessened to my science, guy with the speech impediment. Love this guy.

[@darrenbee4955]

I've been watching your video's a long time. I don't often leave a comment but just wanted to say I think you do sound pretty much the same. For me personally it's not an issue. I've always understood you and I find the way you talk and sound relaxing. Maybe I'm just weird, lol. Thanks for another great video.