Im in high school and we are learning about time space and eistein etc. I can grasp the concept of the theory of relativity but i cant comprehend how you can consider time a dimension alike the first 3 dimensions
Could somebody please explain the similarity of time and space and how they're both relative
Im in high school and we are learning about time space and eistein etc...
Juan Jones
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Jonathan Ramirez
distance is equivalent to time multiplied by speeed
Ryan Russell
Time is not another dimension in the traditional sense.
Lets say that you are a 3D observer in a 4D space and you are in some 3D space inside that 4D space.
Now imagine you hop to another 3D space (in 4D there are infinitely many 3D spaces), what you will see there is a completely different 'world'. Nothing you saw has any parallel with this other 3D space.
If you want to think it in geometry, no point you saw in your original space is or has any relation to the points in this other space.
But time is not like that. When a second passes you don't travel to another 3D space where you see new points. You simply see the same points arranged differently.
For example, at one moment your dick may be soft but a couple of minutes later it could be hard so when you move from the time when it was soft to the time it was hard you simply see a different arrangement of the same points in the same space.
Also, physicists are dumb.
Thomas Young
Modeled spacetime is 4-dimensional in the sense that it unifies three spatial dimensions and one temporal dimension. Don't think of time as a 4th spatial dimension and you'll be just fine
Xavier Clark
so what youre saying is that time is not the only 4th dimension and that there are more ways of perceiving a 4th dimension other than time?
Logan Butler
you can take any variable you like and call it a dimension. if it varies it can be defined as a dimension
Juan Cooper
No, I'm saying that time is not a spatial dimension but a continuous list of different configurations of our 3D space.
The problem is that physicists don't know math.
Jaxson Taylor
but i suppose its only valid in certain mathematical scenarios and in this reality the only 4th dimension is time or am i wrong?
Charles Ramirez
and so time is nothing alike the spatial dimensions?
Ian Ross
no, we call the three spatial and one temporal dimensions "the four dimensions" because they are most relevant dimensions to study when you physics