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Imagining the Tenth Dimension
A mindbending animated trip through the 'ten dimensions' theory that forms part of the basis of string theory. Click the 'I have Flash 8' box, mouseover 'Navigation' if the sidebar isn't extended, and click 'Imagining the Ten Dimensions'.
posted to science by BiggerJ, Jul 5th, 2006
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This guy's poor site is getting slammed by in4mador and possibly other sites. I wish there were a link view counter on each link so we could see the damage.
I think the best description of the fourth dimension is given through the horribly long load times.
Also, I believe dimensions 5-10 are bullshit. But that's just me. Wouldn't have been easier to say "the tenth dimension is pretty much all of everything."?
This should be moved from 'science' to 'weird'.
Does in4mador even have the user-base to "slam" a site?
All 7 of us were viewing at once.
b-o-r-i-n-g
it's theoretical bulllshittt
nobody knows anything
I think in4mador has tons of visits, just very few members that actually do anything.
What do you have to say, Brad?
I lurked for months before posting anything... I can only imagine that there are plenty of other voyeurs out there like me.
Wow! I didn't know bullshit had ten dimensions!
Uh huh, anything one can't understand is boring bullshit. Meanwhile, various "beliefs" are perfectly acceptable, I suppose...
I understand it perfectly. I also understood Colin Powell's presentation to the UN.
Wait, I thought string theory included 11 dimensions?
And I'm pretty sure none of this has much to do with actual 11 dimensional theory anyway. The dimensions 4-11 (time not being included as an actual dimension in a lot of theorists ideas) aren't explained, they're just there to explain the relative weakness of gravity compared to other forces...
This seems like a feeble attempt at a Unified Field Theory.
Wow. I finally understood the 4th dimension. But I got lost somewhere in the next six dimensions.
Philosophers and scientists.... tch.
..Wow. It would appear that lemoncurry enjoys putting words in peoples' mouths to give the impression that he actually knows something. Tsk, tsk.
Anyway, this whole "OMFG TEN DIMENSION" thing is pretty rediculous. :(
Well, I do know, at the least:
1) people is plural, so the possessive is "people's"
2) how to spell "ridiculous"
3) that a well-presented attempt at helping folks visualize higher dimensions is not b.s. and is only boring to boring people.
My main objection was to the "nobody knows anything" poster. I have read a lot about the attempt to unify the forces into one theory and it's fascinating stuff.
And what words did I put into whose mouths? :/
1) I couldn't possibly give two lumpy peanut-decorated shits about being entirely precise on something so fickle and full of people who can't properly speak there own native language anyway.
2) Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that typos weren't accepted in your perfect world. Way to use capitals, by the way. WHOOPS.
3) It's just a theory, calm down, Einstein. Seriously.
Back to my point, though. You claimed that he called it "boring bullshit". Wrong. He simply referred to it as being just bullshit. That would be one assumption on your list. Second, you make a pretty bold statement referring to other beliefs (oh wait, "beliefs", as you used it) being acceptable. Bargaintuan said absolutely nothing to provoke such a statement, and therefore you make the assumption that anyone really wants to listen to you gripe about other "beliefs". kthx.
Whoops. I meant "their". Don't forget to rag on me for that one, too.
That must be why I wasn't even commenting on Bargaintuan's comment (which was actually kind of clever), but Swellfella's, as I explained, or does reading comprehension not matter in your world either? And why did you feel the need to defend anyone but yourself in the first place? Did I touch a nerve - do you have some irrational beliefs of your own?
What griping? All I did was allude that someone who thinks 10 dimensions is boring b.s. is probably the sort of person who would defend their particular irrational belief system to no end.
"WHOOPS"? See the colon? My list was part of one big sentence. I see your WHOOPS and raise you a D'oh!
Tsk, tsk, yourself. You were the one putting words in my mouth all along. How about saving the flamewars for Usenet?
To other in4mador users: I apologize for this pissing contest and will not indulge it it further, in this thread or in any others.
in it, that is.
*grabs popcorn* This might get good. Self righteousness is teh awesomezors.
Flame on!
Alas, the final desperate act of a seething fool, who would stoop to such petty levels and then put his head back up in the clouds. Arguing about something so petty--especially when you're wrong--and then acting like some crusader (and, not to mention, blowing everybody with an apology, when you started it in the first place by pulling the "you must not be intelligent enough to understand this, so you simply pass it off" card) afterwards isn't really something to be proud of, but you can continue to have fun with that. I was simply proving a point, based on a statement which appeared to be towards Bargaintuan, but now you claim was towards SwellFella, which although makes some more sense, was not explained by you until now.
Just do yourself a favor and stop mushrooming it further than it's already gone. kthxbye.
What a head trip - all I took from that was that playing cards can't poop, and I think the narrator was Canadian.
Okay, other members, who's full of shit here?
I don't want to say anything, but perhaps we shouldn't be too afraid of discussion on in4mador. It's just when the arguments get personal that they get tiring.
In my opinion, it's all theoretical. Yay woo hoopla. Just because you understand something, or don't doesn't make it true. Your comprehension is not related to the facts. Do we need to argue and bicker over something so broad and trivial? Or can we go back to websites about toilets and paperclips and evil cats?
Memento Mori. The tenth dimension does not effect our frivilous little lives whether it exists or not, in the broad sense. We can still have our cheetos and whatnot.
As for me, I have not seen the site. It sucks to have dialup. But it's not worth fighting over, really, leave that to the whiny scientists who dream this stuff up.
Now lemoncurry and km kiss and make up.
Nah, I don't kiss trolls, especially those with irrational beliefs. I never should have risen to the bait. Note how he never answered any of my questions.
Any intelligent person can read the above and see he went off half-cocked. I shouldn't have felt the need to defend myself one iota. Been too long since my Usenet days, I guess!
I will stick to making intelligent, unassailable comments such as "word" in the future.
Brad, if you're reading this, we need a forum.
word.
As soon as I resolve these awful server issues I'm having, I'll put one up.
Mkay, lemoncurry, I believe you said you were going to stop talking about the whole issue.. oh yeah, the post before the one you made now. I'm done making my points, so are you about ready to wrap this all up yet? There's no need to continue to run me into the ground when we both made the same mistake. I got the wrong impression about something you said (being that you said it to someone different than I thought you did, apparently), so I responded. You counteracted, and thus we started this big tennis match. I already stated that I'm finished, so once again, are you ready to drop it, or are you going to milk it to the last drop--involving everyone else outside of this, running some kind of Presidential campaign to get people to favor you, no less.
I watched this and was all:
lol zeroith dimenshun or sum bullshit
k first dementshun
k second ya i get it
THIRD? THATS WERE I AM I CAN RELATE TO THIS GUY!!!1!!11111!!!!!!!1!!!!!!
wowzerz tiem.
Then it was pretty much:
wait...what the fuck?
wait...what the fuck?
wait...what the fuck?
wait...what the fuck?
wait...what the fuck?
wait...what the fuck?
um
Dimentions 5-10 are theoretical in nature, but this is not what really concerns me. What concers me is the (over) use of a theme, or pattern, when no physical evidence remains. I'm not saying it's not O.K. to speculate. I fully understand the need for the progression of ideas to continue even if you are unsure of the exact means to the end, but one simply needs to keep in mind the relativity of all things. I prefer the 7th dimention, though I cannot say I honestly believe in the theories' process.
...The theories' process after the description 4th dimention, that is.
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!!