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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Poutnik wrote:
> >
> > Dne 23/12/2015 v 07:54 The Starmaker napsal(a):
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Now,
> > > why do others
> > > say
> > > Time
> > > is the 4th dimension...
> > > i have no idea.
> > >
> > > It's insanity.
> >
> > Imagine for now our world as a plane,
> > and time as the z axis.
> >
> > Imagine our passing time like this plane flying
> > upward along the time axis.
> >
> > This was our experience with space and time until SR.
> >
> > But than it was realized that if you are moving
> > wrt some other objects, you and them do not live
> > at the same space plane anymore,
> > but your planes are mutually tilted wrt time axis.
> >
> > This causes relativity of simultaneity,
> > time dilation and length contraction.
> >
> > The space and the time are not independent anymore,
> > but mixed together, determining each other
> > in space-time,
> > where time is recalculated to length by c factor
> > as another dimension.
> >
> > --
> > Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer )
> >
> > Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant.
> 
> I'm not interested in mathematical dimensional theories.


Let me put it this way...

If a 4th dimension in space existed, you would have to throw
out the idea of a inverse-square law out the window...

since a square has only has two dimensions...

you would need to change the law into..
an inverse-cube law.