A thoroughly useful cartoon...

[jalenstrix]

...for those of us who are visualization-challenged when it comes to thinking about dimensions greater than four: Ten Dimensions, ho!

(Yoinked from bluedevi)

Comments

[helen99]

Nifty..

[elegantelbow]

I think some subatomic strings vibrated and my brain exploded in one of the other possible time lines of one of the other possible universes.

Thanks!

[jalenstrix]

*laughter* Quite welcome, and I know just what you mean.

[turnberryknkn]

Sheer. F**king. Awesome. :-)

[jalenstrix]

[grin] I was quite impressed with the cartoon, I must admit. That's the first time I've seen something that assigned meaning to dimensions above four in a way I could immediately grasp.

[motive_nuance]

This explanation relies on a pretty weird model of how vision works. As residents of a three-dimensional manifold, our visual field has two spatial dimensions (viz. azimuth and elevation). Similarly, a two-dimensional entity would have a one-dimensional visual field, so it certainly wouldn't be able to see cross-sections of our insides.

[corivax]

I like their conceptual framework; I think the point,line,fold across each dimension. I think that makes it very understandable. But the tie-in to string theory is painfully wrong. String theory deal with spatial dimensions; that cartoon stopped dealing with spatial dimensions and jumped to temporal ones after three.