Simulating Biology in Other Dimensions

Discover the incredible ways we can simulate life in higher and lower dimensions. From ‘4D Toys’ to ‘5-D Chess with Multiverse Time-Travel’, we’ll explore how games and other forms of media help us visualize other dimensions.
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- Games and Simulations Featured -
4D Toys:
Game - store.steampowered.com/app/61...
Channel - / @mtbdesignworks
4D Miner:
Game - store.steampowered.com/app/19...
Channel - / @mashpoe
Patreon - / mashpoe
ALIEN:
Simulation - alien-project.org/
Channel - / @alien-project
5D Chess
Game - store.steampowered.com/app/13...
Miegakure:
Website - miegakure.com/
4D Particle Life:
Game - tucan444.itch.io/particle-lif...
Creator - tucan444.itch.io/
Petri:
Game - sintel.itch.io/petri
Creator - / sin_tel
1D Game:
Game - mashpoe.github.io/1D-Game/
Channel - / @mashpoe
Tetraspace:
Game - rantonels.itch.io/brane
Perspective:
Game - store.steampowered.com/app/11...
Other Featured Media: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, Arrival, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Antichamber, Fragments of Euclid, Viewfinder, Fez
This is a video about life in other dimensions.
Flat lifeforms in 2D landscapes, psychedelic entities with higher spatial geometry, even beings that can ignore time. While our 3D brains can typically only perceive a limited number of dimensions, with the help of computer simulations and a bit of sci-fi creativity, we can conceptualize some truly mind-blowing hypothetical realities.
So, say goodbye to the 3D world you know, and prepare for life in lower and higher dimensions…
0:00 Simulating Other Dimensions
0:44 2D Life
2:55 4D Life
8:56 4D Life (Time)
12:06 5D Life
14:31 6D Life (And Beyond)
16:27 Approaching Infinity
18:40 Beyond Infinity
Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary.
I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners.
♫ Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio:
Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witch, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian
♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):
Beauty Flow
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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♫ Classical Music:
Bizet - Habanera

[@franciscol3510]

Something to note: in the game about chess with time travel there's an strategy called the Terminator Gambit, in wich you basically check-mate the opponents king in the first turn of the original timeline, basically neutralizing every single timelinge

[@kyzer422]

"Wait, I'm in check?" "You always have been."

[@PrairieWindSun]

@@kyzer422 A certain ant: "I was in checkmate right from the start."

[@futuristica1710]

Spock raises an eyebrow.

[@tfcisthegoat]

“Noone can escape the fate that was chosen for them. All that remains is the fate that was chosen for them. Eternal greatness exists only within myself. Sing a song of sorrow in a world where time has vanished.”

[@crushingturtle4517]

@@kyzer422 The best is when you get a checkmate because of a move you made 15 turns ago

[@fishingwithkirby3989]

the concept of 5th dimension organisms trying to out smart each other through several time lines sounds like the most fun and brain hurting concept I have ever heard

[@narrativeless404]

Yes 5D evolution, where even the lowest lifeforms are smarter than us, 3D apes

[@dinoloveremu]

Those pranks would be insane

[@KenderGuy]

it wouldn't be as hard if your brain was 5-dimensional

[@narrativeless404]

@@KenderGuy It would be normal for them

[@johnnystankiewicz295]

Birds are good at traveling in the Y dimension (height) because they are good at resisting gravity. Makes me wonder... Are there 4d beings specialized in traveling in the 4th dimension and is there a force similar to gravity in the 4th dim. pushing you to the... ground or whatever? Like some 4d beings might not be able to freely travel 4d

[@Dhakadice]

"4D predators" may be one of the most terrifying concepts ever. :O

[@Demogorgon47]

Yeah it's a real mind fuck either way isn't it? If they're spatially four dimensional then they can just pop into your room, or literally anywhere, seemingly out of nowhere and nab you. There'd be no escape. If they're temporally four dimensional beings then they could pop up anywhere in your life from birth to death and grab ya. Either way you're stuck with an unkillable monster that could pop in from anywhere/when and grab you. No escape, no way out. You LITERALLY cannot outrun them.

[@tucan7112]

Nice video, Im the guy who made particle life 4D. Really didnt expect to get mention in here, well anyways thanks.

[@Onthew4y]

You made an incredible concept good sir

[@Qurent]

There is a quite common thinking error, in regards to 2d beings, people assume they view world in a top down way, like if we were to look at a paper drawing, but in reality they would only be able to see in 1d, just a line, in example you showed at 5:02, the 2d organism wouldn't know there is a blue sphere to begin with, all it would see is a green line and it would need to cut through it to see there's something inside or it would need to use sound, kind of like how we can tell something is empty inside by knocking on it and listening. Great video overall, but I never saw anyone explain properly how 2d beings see.

[@Guydude777]

If they can even see in the first place.

[@Qurent]

@@Guydude777 Depends on whether or not they can form eyes

[@brianahicks4805]

Yeah, that occurred to me when he mentioned that they’d see humans like an MRI machine.

[@angeldude101]

People talking about trying to render 4D always seem to forget that they need to project down to _2D_ rather than 3D. We've already lost a dimension just to display things to the screen. Even without a screen, we still only see in 2D. We _infer_ 3D based on various properties like relative sizes, shadows, occlusion, and parallax. A 2D being would be able to understand 2D only by using these same techniques.

[@yartastic]

Exactly! Think a sphere inside a closed box. Your eyes can't see the sphere because your 2D vision dosen't allow your eyes to look inside. But you still know something is in there, because you can hear and feel the sphere if you shake the box. Similarly, a person in a 2D space can only see the outside of a hollow square. They can't see the circle inside. But if they push the square around, they can hear and feel the circle. So they could also figure out something is in the box. This is of course assuming either dimensional beings didn't simply observe someone else put a sphere/circle into the box/square and already knew what was in it.

[@HlootooThunderhammer]

Diggin that intro. It’s one of my greatest dreams to see someone create an in-depth simulation of a generated ecosystem. Like a fully realized version of Spore. That would be the greatest game/simulation EVER.

[@kmharnish]

Look up the sapling, it’s still currently in development but it is trying to become something like that

[@HlootooThunderhammer]

@@kmharnish Oh yeah! I saw it. I reeeaaallly hope they don't ditch it like so many other game developers do with their projects.

[@Brando3775]

Thrive also exists but is fairly early in development

[@highlord2841]

@@Brando3775 that’s pretty much what I was gonna say

[@pussygetter4465]

​@@kmharnishbibites is crazy good

[@BlackGryph0n]

10:35 While I don't think the Heptapods can alter time, they do seem to be able to bend spacetime to travel great distances and altre/defy/manufacture gravity (which is just bent space-time), so I'd say that their ability to perceive time in a non-linear fashion has aided in their development of technology and likely made space travel a lot easier for them. Who knows, they could be way less advanced than us from an evolutionary standpoint, the Heptapod version of cavemen, with rock ships that travel just as easily through space-time as we do through 3d space. I love this concept!

[@onidaaitsubasa4177]

Umm technically it's gravity that bends time by dragging the physical subatomic or quantum parts of an atom that create it, but um ok, Einstein wasn't considering quantum science or the frequency separation of alternate timelines when he made the theory. Gravity is simply mass particle density accumulation, which basically is the greater the number of accumulated number of particles within a certain space, the higher the attraction value. But yeah, any creature that fully understands time should also be able to find ways to affect it, by being able to change gravity

[@tworossfedermansinatrenchcoat]

OMG it's Michael Jackson!

[@SPCv4]

@@onidaaitsubasa4177 literal "erm akshully" moment

[@Blewlongmun]

@@onidaaitsubasa4177 If you're gonna "um actually" someone atleast be right. Mass causes disturbances in the Higgs field which bends space-time, gravity is a bi-product of inertia in space-time. You only require mass to calculate gravity but mass itself isn't based on particles it's based on pure energy, that's Einsteins whole schtick E=MC^2. Understanding gravity and time also don't give immediate access to manipulation, think about how much we understand yet have no control over? Keep Alberts name out your mouth, mans knew about physics big and small, Max Planck died 7 years before he did. That's my piece thank you.

[@portlandbluewizard2520]

@@onidaaitsubasa4177 UMMMM AKCSHUALLY, GRAVITY BENDS SPACE TIME WITH A HEAT GUN AND A STRAIGHT EDGE, I LEARNED IT WATCHING TIKTOK

[@D0NU75]

I've never considered that the 4th dimension is basically the displacement of empty space, fascinating. This implies all matter exists in constant contact with each other and the universe we see is shaped by those holes between them, like bubbles.

[@gg_plays7647]

you can see the present as an infitesimely small 3 d slice trying to comprehend time

[@wren_.]

the way i had it described to me was that the 4th dimension could flip 3D objects. think about it this way. a 2D being could take a rectangle and rotate it, or take a rectangle and move it, but they couldn’t flip it. this is because flipping an object requires you to move the object into the 3rd dimension. so if a 4D being came into our dimension, pulled you out of it, and “flipped” you, you would be very different than before. all your organs on your right would now be on your left, and your dominant hand would switch.

[@gg_plays7647]

@@wren_. 4d isnt just like that its infinite times bigger than you the way they described 4d to you is if 3d was even something to a 4d being 3d is basically 0 to a 4d being so they cant see us at all

[@gg_plays7647]

maybe time as we know it is a higher dimension interacting with an inferior one and happens throughout all dimensions

[@thingonathinginathing]

Wat

[@rga1605]

It's really amazing to think about that. I want to mention Flatland, a romance published in late 19th century. Spoilers for a book in public domain, but one of the best parts of the book is when the paralelogram protagonist (I don't remember much if it was a paralelogram or a square) is brought by a sphere to the 3rd dimension and gets euphoric, but then the sphere says "if that is so, then even the worst scoundrels of our world are gods to yours", and the novel ends with sphere wondering if there are indeed higher dimensions. I feel it's the ancestors of the ideas in the video.

[@frofrozzty]

Been looking for something new to read, thanks!

[@thecandlemaker1329]

There's also a movie based on that novel.

[@ImaErick]

i forgot about flatland i love that book

[@StripedAssedApe]

I've always loved that work by A. Square

[@JooJingleTHISISLEGIT]

@@thecandlemaker1329 it's on here too

[@purplehaze2358]

"Now that nobody's confused, let's talk about time travel!" Ah yes, the least confusing concept to wrap one's head around.

[@RailfoxStudios]

You know shit’s gone crazy when time travel chicanery becomes the most easily-understood part of the topic.

[@unrulybot1352]

Well after talking about inter-Dimensional travel to the 4th Dimension, time travel seem easy.

[@Red_Dragon42]

I got an ad after he said that 😂😂😂

[@battyboio]

The Tralfamadorians from Slaughterhouse 5 also experience time all at once and have a style of life called fatalism The protagonist from the story also starts experiencing time as they do which is a strangely interesting way to explain PTSD. It's a good book, I'd recommend it :)

[@daytonhedgpeth9272]

came to the comments looking for this!

[@EggBastion]

Kurt Vonnegut?

[@iyn173]

slaughterhouse? *IS THAT A GE-*

[@drunklord9471]

4:36 4D beings playing Dungeons and Dragons with a 600 sided die DM: Roll for damage PC: Hell yes! Nat600 DM: Well done! Your weapon initially miss the boss but it did hit one of his ancestors, changing the course of history entirely and preventing him from being born. Congrats!

[@htth3152]

You should've at least mentioned A.Dewdney's book The Planiverse in the 2D section. It goes into real depth into how a 2D organism would be built and function, as well as into 2D physics, tectonics, ecology, and even engineering decisions a 2D civilization would realistically implement to go around a flat universe's limitations. It's really brilliant.

[@HurriSbezu]

Yeah! I liked the zipper solution to holes that would bisect organisms.

[@tinobemellow]

The 2D universe must be where all the Anime comes from.

[@jzeerod]

that would be more advanced level of academic understanding, which most of the tictoc generation, would go over thier heads. one must consider that after 30 seconds they lose interest.

[@tyttuut]

The universe is flat!

[@sawyermorrow8719]

@@jzeerod I think you're overgeneralizing Gen Z. While a lot of this generation's people are stupid, it also holds some of the greatest minds in the world. Not every person today is an idiot, you know. Every generation gets smarter because they retain the knowledge of the past generation and build on it with new and groundbreaking ideas. The invention of games like tears of the kingdom today is just as important as the invention of the atari or pokemon red. And that's just video games. So you should go back to your day, and instead of talking about kids these days and getting angry because this generation is more advanced than yours, appreciate the greatest accomplishments of the generation and have a good time. Boomer.

[@ivoryowl]

About the whole 5D chess... Couldn't that be perceived in a similar way to the saving and loading system in videogames? Every time our character dies, the game reloads to a previous save before the catastrophe happened. One could also argue every time we reload, we may or may not switch to an alternate reality where either our char managed to overcome danger, or take a different route.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

What if we switch in alternative timelines every time we die in some accidents and aren't aware of it. Like you almost getting hited by the car, but in the previous timeline, you actually die, but instantly continued living in this new timeline, thinking: "That was close!"

[@40watt53]

Yeah loading a save is like travelling back in time and switching saves would be like moving across time (usually diagonally), there's also the constant forward march of your knowledge increasing through the passage of real time which is the 3rd temporal dimension in chess.

[@ivoryowl]

@@40watt53 Ok, this is completely unrelated but the heck isn't KZbin notifying me when someone replies to my comments? This is the second time it happens, and I know the option to receive said notifications is enabled...

[@AstroEli133]

No, because when you load a new save in a video game there's still one of you.

[@salewis8491]

@@ExtremeMadnessX I believe that's called 'Quantum Immortality'.

[@fakkva2841]

Great video! Dunno if you already heard about it, but there's an amazing speculative biology visual novel called "south scrimshaw" that would fit perfectly on this channel. Right now there's only one chapter but if you're interested maybe you could cover it when more chapters are released

[@gadielgonzalez2755]

Yes

[@catpoke9557]

It's the only visual novel I've ever played (read? watched?) and it is SO good

[@logsupermulti3921]

The book Diaspora by Greg Egan explores extra-dimensional life very well. There's a scene in the book where a human augments himself to be able to perceive and understand the six dimensional space around him and upon going back he has a panic attack because he feels like he's being smashed and limited in his normal body. This gets to the point where he just clones himself letting one copy stay in the six dimensional body and the other going back to the three dimensional existence.

[@massimocole9689]

Yeah that one is great. I love how metaphorically resonant the fact that there stable orbits cannot exist in that world. You either fall in or you leave.

[@bentrolley4316]

Great shout. I came here to mention Dichronauts, I'd forgotten about that bit of Diaspora. Clearly time for a re-read XD

[@adamcampbell25]

Came here to mention Dichronauts and Diaspora and glad to see others having read Greg Egan, he has some thought provoking stuff

[@kamikeserpentail3778]

Yeah, that is often how I feel.

[@urgent_please_help]

These entities are pure evil and have no physical body. They are in our dimension killing innocent people and possessing their body. This is not a joke. This is crazy and have been going on for a while now. This nation is pure sick and evil.. Please be safe people. This is REAL, THEY ARE HERE AND THEY ARE MURDERING LIVES.

[@thomaseasley2938]

Hey there, curious archive, have you considered doing an updated video on Phtanum B? The project has been fleshed out massively, and would likely make for a much more interesting and meatier video that before

[@Sleepy_Muse]

I feel like most people are unimaginative to the dimensions of time, the way we understand it currently is already fluid, and there’s a lot more you can add onto it I personally like the idea of alternate infinity’s, and time bending, and or existing in other directions

[@Lausanamo]

Time is already quite complex, and if there are alternate timelines then we could even be living in a 5D universe, or more accurately, a 5D multiverse.

[@MonkeyBonesGeorge]

I just learned about South Scrimshaw. Didn't fully watch it because I'm made of emotions, but from what I gathered it's a really beautiful look at symbiosis and individuality in intelligent species. Would love to see an episode on it.

[@SharkUsingaComputer]

seconded, south scrimshaw is incredibly interesting!! id love to see CA's take on it, especially the panspermia sections that the game only touches on briefly

[@fakkva2841]

South scrimshaw enjoyers rise up 🐳

[@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8]

@@SharkUsingaComputersadly I feel like he might have something to say about the penumbra shark since shark fins don’t really work like that

[@catpoke9557]

South Scrimshaw is the most believable absurd spec evo project I've seen. Probably because it stars a whale, and whales are already absurd creatures as is. So everything feels natural for a creature like a whale.

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

Good news (I think)...

[@Kdiggity_Xx]

Dawg literally called me out at 4:55. I was gettin so comfortable and his voice was so soothing that I was dozing off. Man must really be able to see in 4D, cuz how’d he manage to say “wake up guys” right when I fell asleep 😂

[@allisonseamiller]

The the Remembrance of Earth's Past series (AKA The Three Body Problem series) the author Liu Cixin gets into a lot of higher and lower dimensional stuff, it's pretty interesting.

[@memesfromdeepspace1075]

The tree body problem

[@pokemonfanmario7694]

One issue is that one group of protagonists enter a 4 dimensional space, yet are perfectly fine within it. It doesnt make logical sense that 3d organisms can safely inhabit 4d space, as our "skin" only protects an infinitely thin slice of 4d space, just like how a 2d organisms skin only protects an infinitely thin slice of 3d space. Our innards would all spill out "-w-ways" into surrounding 4d space, killing us.

[@GeorgesSegundo]

Smarte reasioning brother.@@pokemonfanmario7694

[@robert2german]

I am curious if Pikmin will eventually be covered; Pikmin 4 is coming up, and with the previous three titles now all available on Switch, there is plenty of material to cover, especially since there is an in-universe bestiary.

[@zobblewobble1770]

Pikmin would be awesome, i loved reading through Pikmin 2s creature database as a kid. They really did a pretty good job at making the enemies seem like creatures in an ecosystem, at least for a Nintendo Game.

[@melvacaoyona-ollosa278]

We should tell him to do pikmin next bcs its gonna be great.

[@gizmo835]

@@zobblewobble1770 I absolutely love how in Pikmin it is stated that some species of breadbugs mimic young grub-dogs to avoid getting eaten by them or something like that...

[@tahalekrari186]

Pikmam fan boys spotted. And i love it

[@urgent_please_help]

You escaped sheol but you will burn in the lake of fire in the end murderer.

[@bluecrayfish2081]

That very advanced simulation look so real. It's mind boggling!

[@VictorianSnailGod]

This video is making think about how, I might be dead in one dimension, and alive in another. Or that I might be in a dream and everything that I have done, or will do is just that, a dream. And at any moment I wake up as my 15 year old self, having to relive every moment that I’ve suffered through

[@mjr_schneider]

Curiosity Archive must have watched a Tibees video on two-dimensional creatures and felt inspired to make a whole documentary on multidimensional speculative biology. Incredible.

[@fleeze92]

One of the most interesting channels I have the pleasure of subscribing to. Keep up the good work, boss.

[@alfonsonishikawa]

7:55 How to create a closed home: Create a filled cube (7x7, for example). Go one step on W, create an empty cube in the same place (walls, roof, ground), go one step W, create a filled cube. Go -1 step W, put a door in one of your empty cube's wall and enter your safe home :)

[@CtrlAltDlt357]

🤓

[@ameliawade78]

This is a really well done and comprehensive video. I've been interested in this topic for a while and have come across a lot of the reference points you use here over the last couple of years. However I feel like this is the definitive overview of the topic on yt, kudos to you for this video and I will be subscribing.

[@victorlonn7015]

I like to call myself a dimensional fanatic, and I actually knew some of this, but thank you for making a video about one of my favourite concepts

[@entropyhater]

I've always thought the idea was so interesting but too niche for anyone to explore, very cool that other people think about this stuff

[@dmgroberts5471]

I've spent a lot of time thinking about higher-dimensional space. This is the way I like to visualize it: imagine a hexagon that's been folded along all the points, then imagine folding two of the resulting "segments" under so that you have a 4-sided pyramid with a triangle sticking out on the inside. This is 4D as seen from a 3D perspective: the two folded sides are the 4D axis, and the pyramid (looked at from above so that it looks like a square) is the bottom face of a cube of 3D space. Imagine the "square" as a metre (or 3ft) of open space in a field of such "squares." From any of the four visible faces of the "square" you can move to the next "square" in the grid, and you can jump in the air, or dig down into the ground, where there would be another grid of squares one metre down. This is 3D space. Now, with the 4th axis, you can move off either of the two edges that are folded away under the "square," onto the folded edges of another "square" somewhere else in the grid, without crossing the intervening space in 3D, thereby travelling in the 4th Dimension. If there was a 3D building build on the grid, you'd be able to use the 4th axis to enter and exit without using the door. The only thing I have to do now, is figure out how the two folded edges connect up to each other. Or, go insane. 😆

[@victorlonn7015]

@@dmgroberts5471 Should I be embarrassed that I didn't really understand what you meant when I read it?

[@dmgroberts5471]

@@victorlonn7015 Nah, I need to make some diagrams or something. It can get confusing. Basically, I'm trying to come up with a 4D grid system. Ideally, I'll then create some kind of video game that uses it, so I can create some kind of puzzle where you have to figure out 4D movement to solve it. For that, the 4D stuff obviously needs to be consistent.

[@victorlonn7015]

@@dmgroberts5471 When I want a 4D grid I make a series of 3D grids with small changes in each one. If you then cycle through them you'll get an animated 4D grid

[@FerretyZebra]

reccomending to make a video about south scrimshaw, its an amazing speculative evolution and sci-fi thing. Love some videos

[@MoempfLP]

2:25 the two holes just can't be open at the same time, but it is also a possibility to always close at least one of them.

[@DBSB3272]

2:14 yeah. advanced simulation mhm

[@oightKoreraAreEditable]

Sent this video to my friend and had a discussion about the idea of 4D life and they are scared of me now! Great video! Love it!

[@JaJa-ms7ex]

Most likely a 2-d being would percieve a 3-d creature as a 1-d line or set of lines, that vary in shape as the being passes through the 2-d plane, not as an MRI scan (which is a 2-d image). Just as we live in a 3-d world, but our vision is 2 dimensional. We do have a sense of depth that comes from the fact that we possess two eyes, but fundamentally, images we see are 2-d.

[@Yipper64]

10:12 Father Pucchi would call that heaven.

[@MagicPen27]

I love all the dry humor in this one. Every video gets better and better!

[@buoyant257]

Love your content

[@juancabezascaceres]

Such an amazing theme and video! BTW Ramiel, the octaedron angel from Neon Genesis Evangelion in the rebuild version for me is such an amazing 4th dimension entity. Changing, appearing and dissapearing from our 3d world like magic

[@bingusdingus3999]

As well as Leliel whose shadow appears to us as its body, while its real body resides in a separate dimension!

[@aeaeeaoiauea]

as far as I can tell Ramiel doesn't actually correspond to any actual 4D shape.

[@aeaeeaoiauea]

@@bingusdingus3999 Leliel certainly isn't 4D either.

[@sveinnordgren6376]

Its fun to see how your channel has grown to be as big as it is now. I hope it will just keep growing so that more people get to see and wonder about all that has been, is and might be.

[@ImLucld]

16:03 even though im not epileptic, you shouldve added an epilepsy warning dude, that sht got me going "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

[@PloverTechOfficial]

When it comes to time, my personal opinion is that time is a construct, it exists in all the dimensions we can experience, moving in any dimension requires moving through the constructual dimension of time.

[@onidaaitsubasa4177]

I think technically it could be considered a wave created by unseen quantum oscillations that serves to separate different congruent timelines or separate universes by means of frequency shift.

[@PloverTechOfficial]

@@onidaaitsubasa4177 true, since time can be coaxed into different wavelengths by distortion of gravity and gravity is also a wave. That checks out.

[@drdca8263]

@@onidaaitsubasa4177 This... seems like nonsense to me? I mean, you are using words that people use when talking about quantum mechanics, but, it isn’t at all clear to me how what you are saying could be a working description of “what time is”. But it is possible that that’s on me and not on you.. If we have an isolated system described by a wavefunction, and we are in a context where relativistic effects are irrelevant, we can talk about that wavefunction being decomposed into a sum of energy eigenstates aka eigenfunctions, where the change in the system over time consists of the phases of these eigenfunctions changing at different rates, and where changes to observable properties of the system over time can be seen as the interference from these different components changing as the differences in phases change. For macroscopic things, I guess there’s a concept of “pointer states” which, like, is kinda related to the MWI stuff.. (I don’t understand quite what pointer states are...) For wavefunctions that are a superposition (I.e. linear combination) of other wavefunctions, the different components evolve through time independently, but, if they are related in certain ways, then this can look in some ways like a mix of two things becoming one thing or visa versa, due to uh, if you did the time evolution for one of the two parts individually, it would become something that could seem like a mix of multiple things, where the extra things from each of the two sides cancel out... Wow, that is not at all a clear idea when I try to express it with just ordinary language instead of math. What I’m saying is U((x+y)/sqrt(2)) = z U(x) = (z+w)/sqrt(2) U(y)=(z-w)/sqrt(2) so U((x+y)/sqrt(2) = (((z+w)/sqrt(2))+((z-w)/sqrt(2)))/sqrt(2) = ((z+z)/sqrt(2))/(sqrt(2)) = 2z/2 =z And in a sense I suppose this is kind of like a mixing of worlds/“timelines”, though I think “timelines” is probably best reserved for when they are like, different enough that this kind of mixing is no longer really relevant? I think this is the kind of thing the idea of “pointer states” deals with. I want to be clear that I’m not making the claim that many worlds interpretation is the right interpretation. Perhaps the Born rule is describing something objective, where there is an objective collapse where the wavefunction changes in a way where actual objective probabilities are given by the Born rule. Uh... In the case that relativistic stuff *is* relevant... well, apparently that basically only works in quantum field theory, and while I’ve read parts of a textbook, and parts of some papers, on that, I still find it pretty confusing. In at least the formulations I’ve looked at, there are like, these functions of spacetime that represent something like a field configuration, and these act as “test functions” that operators act on, and it is the *operators* that evolve over time, iirc. (I may be getting mixed up here... I mostly work with lattice systems, where things aren’t relativistic, and where there is a state functional which sends operators to numbers (their expectation value), and the state evolves over time.) Hm. What point was I trying to make? I guess my point is: in all I’ve seen in quantum mechanics, while the details of how time is handled, do vary in important ways, it is always a coordinate of some sort. Just like one would expect. Time is a coordinate. Or, is a coordinate to at least whatever degree that space is coordinates. Maybe I should say “is described by” rather than “is”.

[@MrCmon113]

@@onidaaitsubasa4177 No. What you just said is complete word salad.

[@MrCmon113]

@@PloverTechOfficial No. You clearly have no clue what you're talking about whatsover. A wave is a temporal phenomenon.

[@PokeNebula]

You should have mentioned greg egan! His books have loads of dimensional ideas in them! If you want a taste of 16 dimensional life, read his short “Wang’s Carpets” or the full story it eventually became, “Diaspora”

[@emilydavis771]

Also the Orthogonal trilogy and Dichronauts (a world with two "time like" dimensions).

[@setharellano4126]

9:44 “a WaTeR dInOsAuR”

[@elizabetho.7484]

My brain expands every time I watch your videos. Love how you're experimenting with different topics, and love the humor. Thanks CA.

[@naingaung2748]

Oh geez, I hope he talks about 5d chess with multiverse time travel 😅 12:15 YATAZEEEE!

[@clarawasarmada]

technically the 1D game is the point of view of a 2D being, as they can't see what's inside other beings or objects, just like how our vision is a 2D representation of reality, seeing a screen of reality, the "1D game" is a 1 Dimensional screen of the 2 dimensional reality that only we would see

[@dwhise1995]

I really enjoy your content, you dive into a lot of fascinating topics. I just wish you would make videos more frequently.

[@knellpeek1920]

The last thing I expected to see in a curious archive video was an infinata cameo. This channel continues to to be gold tier

[@rubenmon5932]

With Pikmin 4 coming out you have to do a biology of Pikmin episode! I'd love to see that

[@pinkjake7140]

I love your videos. Always makes my week when a new upload drops.

[@thomasfrender4592]

i am liking this new direction Curious Archive, looking forward to the next vid.

[@alien-project]

Very nice and interesting overview! Thank you for showing and referring to the ALIEN simulator.

[@ollietomlinson3290]

I've seen the movie arrival, i found it really interesting, but my parents just found it confusing, i see why they might have been confused but I really don't see why. Also can we agree 5d chess sounds amazing?

[@noirangel6416]

Attempt #19 *Pretty please do a video for the ecosytem from "Made in Abyss".* 💚

[@clintonbehrends4659]

that would be cool

[@Drag0nmaster]

4:48 had me in stitches man XDDD

[@TSGPhilipp]

I really enjoy the direction this Channel is talking. Keep it Up!

[@Human_01]

Thank you for making this video. It helps to visualize certain concepts and acts as a source of reference on the topic (multi dimensions).

[@cat_supernova2242]

FINALLY 4D AND 5D!!! I JUST STARTED STUDYING SOME OF THIS STUFF ON MY OWN. THANK YOU!!!!!!! EDIT: incase you were wondering no im not in college.

[@ccriztoff]

A 4th dimensional being would be able see us from every angle at once. A 5th dimensional being would be able to see our world line. A 6th dimensional being would be able to see all of the above and every conceivable possible outcome at once.

[@ccriztoff]

Just as we are able to move freely through space a 4th dimensional being would be able to move through time and space. Furthermore a 5th dimensional being would be able to perceive metaphysics in an inconceivable way. Perhaps they might be able to “move” through alternate possible realities. A 6th dimensional being would be able to completely and fundamentally alter metaphysics.

[@calebsummers6636]

ME TOOO!!!!!!!

[@40watt53]

@@ccriztoff Bro quit copy-pasting this everywhere you're just confusing people by mixing up spacial and temporal dimensions.

[@ccriztoff]

@@40watt53 I’m sorry if it’s confusing. But thanks for reading and being a forever learner.

[@noahcreutziger7690]

Quick question: are you planning on doing more speculative world explorations like the yaetuans, Phtanum B, Serina and dragonslayer? I particularly enjoyed those, although this is quite fascinating as well.

[@ryaquaza1571]

9:40 ok I’m not going to lie this clip caught me off guard and gave me a chuckle. Definitely love the format of this video and the random clips throughout it

[@Lost_Ch1ldren]

I loved the light sass and funny bits in this video, keep it up! :3

[@ccriztoff]

A 4th dimensional being would be able see us from every angle at once. A 5th dimensional being would be able to see our world line. A 6th dimensional being would be able to see all of the above and every conceivable possible outcome at once.

[@ccriztoff]

Just as we are able to move freely through space a 4th dimensional being would be able to move through time and space. Furthermore a 5th dimensional being would be able to perceive metaphysics in an inconceivable way. Perhaps they might be able to “move” through alternate possible realities. A 6th dimensional being would be able to completely and fundamentally alter metaphysics.

[@tomasespitia3427]

you are mixing time dimensions with spatial dimensions, for clarity lets say we dont have 4 dimensions, but 3 spatial dimensions and 1 time dimension, in that case you need to specify, a 4th spatial dimensional being could see us from every angle at once , a 5th spatial dimensional being could see all angles of a 4th spatial dimensional object, BUT not the "world line" wich i guess you meant something like a "time line", that would take a 2th time dimensional being, and the one that can see every outcome would be a 3th time dimensional, you cant just mix spatial and time dimensions and then arbitrarily say that the 4th is a spatial dimension, and the 5th and 6th are time dimensions

[@mastercharlesdiltardino8058]

Eh, maybe. They might block out alot of what they perceive.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

between 4 and 5, you switched between spacial and temporal dimensions.

[@ccriztoff]

@@tomasespitia3427 Nope I’m not mixing anything up. The 4th dimension exists beyond space but within time as we exist in space.

[@sockatoo_]

i have to say i sincerely appreciate you mentioning Everything Everywhere All At Once. it's genuinely an amazing movie. it made me cry, and if you're not convinced yet... "If we had hotdogs for fingers, we'd just get good with our feet" is a quote from the movie. if emotional, chaotic, and inspirational sci-fi is your style, PLEASE PLEASE I BEG give the movie the attention it deserves.

[@McMickitty]

Your explanation about the 4th dimension was the best and easiest description i've ever heard, bravo.

[@afdhalulakbar5382]

Amazing video as always! 🤩👍

[@darthguilder1923]

11:55 I know it’s a minor plot point, but in Star Trek Deep Space Nine the wormhole aliens don’t experience linear time either

[@ReplicatorFifth]

Thank you! You explained it really concisely! While still complicated I feel like I understand it much more!

[@YarPirates-vy7iv]

I love this topic, great video.

[@Tytotius]

I like how it was perfectly fine looking at hundreds of thousands of dots on a piece of paper and saying, "Yeah, this is a... uh... a 15 dimensional cube laid flat out for us to be able to comprehend it!" But thinking about what a first dimensional experience would be like is way too far.

[@royalthewaffle]

I’m loving you showing us more comedy and personality in these videos keep it up king 👑

[@kurathchibicrystalkitty5146]

The 10D and 16D cubes look a lot like mandalas. Great video! I'd love to see more videos like this!

[@dmonvisigoth1651]

I packed for my DMT trip by watching and reading about biology and advanced physics. Now, it seems my DMT trip could be seen as my having packed for the trip that is watching this video. Truly mind-bending concepts here. I'm getting a lot of ideas on how to describe some shit in my novel I've been struggling with for months now. So, thanks!

[@johncasey9544]

would you recommend it? i've liked acid but been concerned about the intensity of dmt.

[@katan844]

​@@johncasey9544 only if you're very experienced with psychedelics, lsd and dmt do share similarities but also feel completely diffrent so beware

[@heyimsasquatch9444]

Idk if you ever do recommendations, but I love your video game biology vids. I think a video on the biology of The Legend of Zelda games would be really cool. Love your videos!

[@cherriemaesicad8830]

Thats the worst suggestion i can ever think of

[@tricksterzyro3230]

It's not a completely terrible idea, the franchise holds some interesting looking creatures that a lot of people would see dissected and tried to make sense of.

[@Readydaer]

always love your videos

[@B0B0BI]

-"Hiper-spiders , their bodies extend into the 4th dimension and are considerable larger than we can fathom" *CONFUSED ARACNOPHOBE SCREAMING*

[@mathieugariepy2948]

Great video as always!

[@InvasionAnimation]

Great video as usual! I like in inclusion of old cartoons in this one!

[@epg-6]

The 4th dimension being considered time can cause some confusion. It's not that time is 4D, we just say '4th dimension' because we're tacking it onto the existing 3 spatial dimensions. Time is 1D, a line dimension - or possibly 2D if you buy into infinitely branching timelines.

[@PoliticandoCanal]

Man, a real thanks to you for this video! It's really helping me with my book.

[@user-mz6zn1od9h]

you are so cool. right now i appreciate the awe of finding this gem of a channel.

[@Schlumpsha]

Reminds me of Space Dandy and the ill-fated romance between a 2D lifeform and a 4D lifeform.

[@anterprites]

1:20 If we are talking about true 2D then 2D creatures can see only outline, not inside.

[@fcorp2kx]

The amount of work you clearly put into this is a real credit to you as a creator. Phenomenal stuff

[@indigofenix00]

You could make a 2D life form with two openings - just make the digestive tract form a curve with a bulge in it, like a jigsaw puzzle piece. Technically the organism will be cut in two pieces, but those pieces will remain locked together. Food could be passed through using peristalsis, allowing the parts of the tube where the food isn't to remain tightly joined and minimize "jiggling".

[@crepler]

I love how everyone forgets multiverses don't have to be connected to time travel but can instead be dimensional in basis. With universes being "pockets" of unstable space in an otherwise infinite dimensional area, like bubbles in a pool.

[@sneakysquid62]

I always imagine universes as bubbles in a larger space, like dimensional plane of existence outside our perceivable reality

[@onidaaitsubasa4177]

Umm technically multiverses are frequencies, but then you really have to understand the way the Universe works to understand that, but yeah.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

I imagine them as pillars, forming a "wall".

[@sneakysquid62]

@@onidaaitsubasa4177 "well actually"🤓

[@MrCmon113]

That's not "like bubbles" at all.

[@gavinkailey527]

Can you do an in-depth video about the Slugs from Slugterra, please?

[@UndercoverSuperEarthOprative]

God that would be cool

[@pierrojacquo424]

maybe the most playfully mindblowing video I have found in my decade on the internet. Thank you very much !

[@user-tx2go8jq3h]

the way this man crafts his world is awe inspiring! truly a sir, you are a testament of your craft.

[@Human_01]

Ahaha 😂❤ I knew I was onto something... It turns out that the intuitive realization I had was correct, i.e. that you can rightfully summarize the concept of dimensions as "reality filters" (like the [stacked] filter layers you can see in Adobe Photoshop). And that other forms of dimensions will undoubtedly incorporate other forms of light as individual filters that will allow consciousness to experience reality. And that with each escalating dimension, a conscious being that experiences then will still have access to lower dimension filters in order to experience reality. Ultimately, I think it is fair to state that just as reality isn't fixed, and that [for the most part] "anything can happen", the absolute is that each dimension represents a "cap"/limit to what is possible within that dimension. As with any individual, humanity's potential and capability is limited by the amount of information they have at their disposal. -'That' is the cap, the limit. The introduction of new dimensions (e.g. virtual reality) will open access to a whole new -world- dimension of reality/what is possible. If science is magic, then access to a new dimension is access to a whole other tier of magic. And eventually, I theorize that Neuro-physics 'WILL' indeed become possible... But that years ahead of our time, and likely for the best. A "low-tier" demonstration of Neuro-physics, is the route of the inventor or artist, i.e. realizing/manifesting concepts and thought into the physical reality. In a weird way, virtual reality already bridges the gap. It gives humans a taste/sense of what's possible. It will be possible to virtually play god... Again, it is for the best that such a capability is limited to small tier examples in the physical world. Chaos would be the inevitable result otherwise (especially if measures wasn't taken into consideration to enforce order). Come to think of it, I wonder if the X-Men, and other super heros movies is a surprising realistic depiction of what a life would be like if some humans could consciously tap into their restricted/limited Neuro-physics abilities. ... Since consciousness and simulations are the exact same thing, i.e. a mass of consciousness floating within a void, that consciousness would likely have the properties of a simulation [stimulated consciousness]. Dimensions come into play, as pockets of the conscious mass would be restricted to certain physical laws in order to create variation (and simultaneously entertainment/enjoyment of the lived conscious experience). Each dimension[pocket] represents a different filter in reality.... Wait. Are "black holes" objects from a different dimension????? They do fit all the criteria, don't they? And as with beings from a lower dimension, we can tell they exist; because we can sense their influence on the surrounding space. But we cannot recognize or perceive what the things are... It's [physical?] existence and the majority of it's properties is outside of what we are able to perceive as "our reality", it's existence borders outside of our senses... Hence the seeming mysterious void, and confusion it causes most scientists. You what's funny? I had an trippy, intuitive realization that a black holes is just another "sun"/star I mean, they have so much in common, even their life cycle and ability to sustain life on plants and moons that orbit them. Put simply, a black hole could be a sun that is hidden in another dimension. Hence the similar properties, but the black-hole [inter-dimensional?/crossing/intertwining] "sun" registers a pitch, black blob on our human sciences and even technological senses. ... So it's properties are forms of light (one being the so-called "hawking radiation" - pretty narcissitic to name a thing from out of space after yourself, but okay, very "Western" if you ask me. Anyway, it seems a black hole might just be a sun/giant mass from another dimension; who's properties and forms of light is outside of our evolutionary perception, our senses, receptors and ability to make sense of the data. Hence the black-blob... The human brain and our technology only registers it's existence as "blob of seeming nothing-ness". Except there's obviously a something. The thing exists and has many properties, so that isn't for "debate". ... Eh, for all know a black hole could just be gods/aliens way of minoring the universe/space/solar system. And this "tracker, monitor, or alien receptor" would be created with such advanced properties so that immature species cannot interrupt the monitor process?

[@Raykkie]

1:02 Mistake made here, living creature using an analogous of ours sense can only perceive thing 1 Dimension lower. 2D beings can see 1D, 3D beings can see 2D, 4D can see 3D

[@MrT_Rex]

The 4D part broke my brain 4D's nuts

[@elagnithgin]

That was fantastic! I was waiting for a video like this. All that's left to do now is make another video on negative dimensions...

[@georgebodenreider7436]

8:55 in your 1 dimensional brain

[@matthewboire6843]

Nice

[@Nanowith1]

The Three Body Problem series also touches on beings from higher spacial dimensions

[@YannY1150]

I've been drawing a series about 4 spacial dimensional beings making contact with humans 3D beings for a couple years now and I'm glad others are beginning to explore this hidden path of interesting ideas. Cool video.

[@NastyFool7]

I've always found the concept of higher spacial dimensions so fascinating!

[@konradlorek3043]

Another interesting video, nice

[@drnorse3243]

Hey Curious Archive you should consider covering the visual novel South Scrimshaw, theres a lot of cool speculative biology and concepts talked about and its an overall good story

[@n.l.g.6401]

Thanks for covering such a neat topic! Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem also plays with dimensionality a bit. Kind of a downer of a book, but still very clever and very thrilling!

[@Carbidestruck]

Also though about the books watching this video! Remember kids, elect a person with a high deterence activation chance, or else you become 2D.

[@kiwimations2053]

I like the timetravels chess just for the name of the strategies. Terminators gambit, Schrodinger's pawn, across the bishopverse, the list goes on. Its awesome.