Re: How many dimensions are there?


You seemed to want to arrive at a method of getting a certain number
of dimensions. Physical law will help you do that. I provided
alternate names for the 4D, as you requested.

OK. I wish you had corrected me before. You are merely providing
alternate names for the dimensions.
That is a fairly simple thing to do. We can choose any names we wish.
This is not what I requested, but I am happy to chalk this up to
miscommunication.

The subject of the thread is 'How many dimensions are there?'
and I consider a deeper question
Why spacetime?
It would seem that you were generating an attempt at answering this
question but from what I am reading here that was not your intention
at all.
I have already suggested that your argument is circular and provided
evidence for that.
Theory is supposed to provide a mathematical explanation for
observation and in that spacetime is observed it is then valid to pose
that a theoretical answer should exist.
Since your approach is an attempt to come up with 'alternate names for
the 4D' I hope that you will concede that you have not provided such a
theory as I am describing.
But further your alternate names are overly complicated and
nonsensical.

What physical laws do you know of, generalized, that could establish additional
"dimensions"? Perhaps spin conservation?

I believe that current spin theory is conflicted but I won't go into
detail here unless you want that.
If additional dimensions do exist we are still left with the burden of
deriving the three spatial dimensions.
This is not a physical problem; it is a metaphysical problem.
The physical is what we are in.
Upon entering a mathematical representation that presupposes three
spatial dimensions we have made an empirical assumption.
In the past there was little hope of deriving spacetime so this
theoretical breach had to be stomached.
Now with string theories introducing more dimensions yet still
instantiating three empirical extended dimensions I believe the
problem has been exposed.
We are the products of such a theory if that theory is accurate.
So is the spacetime we observe.
As such we are not by necessity going to have direct access to the
theoretical basis; we are in the product space.
This is a place of pure mathematics that will predict reality at a
deeper level than any theory which presupposes the three dimensions of
space.
We observe that spacetime is natural and we can question why. To date
this question has been dismissed.
I can understand if you dismiss this question.
It would appear from your original post on this tendril that you
attempted an answer.
I have provided evidence that such an attempt is circular.

-Tim
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