Re: OK - this is really interesting - Re: Waves using Dimension as a Medium of Propagation


LEFTY wrote:
> Simple math with weird physical meaning - all because speed of light is
> the same in all reference frames. Weird.
>
> But I'm not sure that the automata based on 4D volumes would not
> account for the bending of light.

Well, I'm not talking about just the bending of light, but precisely
how much it is bent. But at this point, I really can't tell you if it
will work, either, because some of what you're saying doesn't make
sense to me yet.

> Imagine a tesselation of cubes. Consider that all the cubes have equal
> 4D volume,

Cubes are 3-dimensional. Are you talking about something like a 4D
hypercube? If so, there would be a bit of a problem, since you can't
make the length of the timelike edges the same as the length of the
spacelike edges, although you could pick a convenient ratio (like c)
and use that same ratio for all the "cubes."

> except for particular region where 4D volume increases like
> a bell cure - basically a cluster where 4D density increases smoothly.
> Something like an approximately ball shaped cluster.
>
> Light still wants to take the shortest path. It would have to go around
> the ball because there is less volume to pass through. If it goes
> straight through the ball it is taking a longer route because there is
> more volume.

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