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a direction reality forgot to mention until math caught it red-handed.
means A measurable extent of something, such as length, width, or height — or more abstractly, an independent axis or aspect along which something can vary.
from From Latin 'dimensio,' meaning 'a measuring,' built from 'dimetiri' — 'di-' (apart, thoroughly) plus 'metiri' (to measure), the same root that gives us 'meter' and 'measure.' So at heart a dimension is simply a way to measure outward, before mathematicians stretched it into the fourth, fifth, and beyond.
- hidden math
- String theory needs ten or eleven of them.
- flat trap
- A 2D being couldn't grasp a sphere passing through.
- time counts
- Physics treats time as the fourth dimension.
- fractal cheat
- Coastlines have non-whole, fractional dimensions.
fourth dimension — time as the fourth spatial dimension in einstein's spacetime continuum, 1905
fractal dimension — mandelbrot set exhibits non-integer dimension of approximately 2.0, defined mathematically in 1975
kaluza-klein dimensions — theoretical extra spatial dimensions beyond the known four, proposed 1919-1926