Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sergio Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Where did the 3 geometric dimensions come from? Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:02:34 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: puEB2Rn3yZiiGxZDNaCrbA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:586387 On 6/24/2016 9:38 AM, Michael J. Strickland wrote: > On 8 May 2016 11:47:41 GMT, 7 <7@enemygadgets.com> wrote: > >> Where did the 3 geometric dimensions come from? > ... > > I recently considered that maybe the three dimensions are just human > (Descarte) made mathematical constructs. > We could easily number all locations in a cubical area with one > coordinate starting at top left, near and progressing to bottom, right > , far. > Granted it would require revamping a lot of our mathematics (e.g. the > distance formula), but it seems it would be just as valid as the > cartesian coordinates we now use. > you can switch from that old x,y,z system to modern Cylindrical coordinate system, or Spherical coordinate system simply using translation, no problem. why put up with plain old 3 distances, when you can have 2 angles and a distance ?