Re: Time in physics
- From: geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 23 Jun 2005 13:26:20 -0700
To Kac
Time is a dimension if you wish to build a time machine,look !, it says
so in this 1898 fictional novel by H.G.Wells -
"'It is simply this. That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is
spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length,
Breadth, and Thickness, and is always definable by reference to three
planes, each at right angles to the others. But some philosophical
people have been asking why three dimensions particularly-why not
another direction at right angles to the other three?-and have even
tried to construct a Four-Dimension geometry. Professor Simon Newcomb
was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month
or so ago. You know how on a flat surface, which has only two
dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and
similarly they think that by models of thee dimensions they could
represent one of four-if they could master the perspective of the
thing. See?'"
http://www.bartleby.com/1000/1.html
If you like a complete explanation of the same thing I suggest you
enjoy the wonderful flatlanders account by Albert himself -
"In the first place, we imagine an existence in two-dimensional space.
Flat beings with flat implements, and in particular flat rigid
measuring-rods, are free to move in a plane. For them nothing exists
outside of this plane: that which they observe to happen to themselves
and to their flat "things" is the all-inclusive reality of their
plane."
http://www.bartleby.com/173/31.html
I believe a Wells movie 'War Of The Worlds' has just come out but it
sure cannot beat his logest running sci-fi adventure the 'Time
Machine' .Did'nt the guy who adaped the novel become man of the century
for something ?.
.
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