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0th dimension: a point in space

1st dimension: a line in space

2nd dimension: a plane in space

3rd dimension: an object with mass (width, height and length), represented as a point in time

4th dimension: a time line, where the third dimension can travel on

5th dimension: a time plane, representing the events of infinite time lines.

6th dimension: third dimensional time space, which, honestly, gets kinda confusing, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the infinite possibilities of time planes. As in, time planes have time lines that actually happen, but 3d time space are what could happen? I'm not entirely sure.

And on and on. My visualization of dimensions is that it infinitely repeats itself based on point, line, and plane.

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No, this is wrong/nonsense. I assume you got this from that one YouTube video? The one with the white background and animated black lines, claiming to explain 12 dimensions?

Learn basic linear algebra to get the idea of the dimension of vector space. Then maybe learn a bit about the box counting dimension or similar for fractals as another related notion (which allows non-integer values).

Speaking about dimensions without doing math is a mistake.

You seem nice.

I didn’t insult them.

I just told them to learn some things which are entirely within their capability to learn, so that they can think about the topic they were talking about, without thinking nonsense.

It shouldn’t take more than a couple hours (possibly under an hour to get the ideas I was referring to), and knowing basic linear algebra is good for a person.

If I was blunt, it is because I dislike misinformation, and highly value mathematics. Perhaps I’ve even warped my view of things in a way that makes me feel that someone understanding mathematics is a terminal moral good? Which, if so, is probably an error on my part.

No, you can't extrapolate time dimensions like you can extrapolate spatial dimensions. This smells like "Imagining the 10th Dimension," which is hilariously bad if you haven't seen it.

You might want to look at Simplex to describe better and more rigorously. Simplex is the most basic structure to describe a space in n-dimension.

0-simplex: a point.

1-simplex: a segment (points and lines)

2-simplex: a rectangle (points, lines, and surfaces)

3-simplex: a tedrahedron (points, lines, surface and a 3D space that most of human can comprehend visually)

4-simplex: everything above and the whole combination of these element in algebra.

This is how mathematician and physicists solve problems. Time is a separate element in our equations that why we often talk space-time, not just space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex

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