Originally posted by @christopher-albonI think you need to look up 'messenger' too.
Hey, don't shoot the messenger. Just wondering is all.
My recommendations are:
1. Do some studying before you try to come up with new theories.
2. Be ready for criticism.
3. Don't ask for advice if you don't actually want it.
Originally posted by @twhiteheadGood recommendations. Pity they are needed.
My recommendations are:
1. Do some studying before you try to come up with new theories.
2. Be ready for criticism.
3. Don't ask for advice if you don't actually want it.
Originally posted by @christopher-albonYou asked for the take of physicists. I gave it. Learn first what a "dimension" actually is.
First rule of science is to check the instruments isn't it? I must be rusty!
Edit. Is that why those probes you fired off are off course, relatively speaking?
Originally posted by @twhiteheadOkay *skuttles back into cave*
I think you need to look up 'messenger' too.
My recommendations are:
1. Do some studying before you try to come up with new theories.
2. Be ready for criticism.
3. Don't ask for advice if you don't actually want it.
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Originally posted by @kazetnagorraWhat is a dimension, then. please explain..
Learn first what a "dimension" actually is.
Originally posted by @ogbhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis
What is a dimension, then. please explain..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space
Originally posted by @ogbA single dimension is a linear scale on which everything in a given space can be placed.
What is a dimension, then. please explain..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension\
Often you need more than one such scale and thus more than one dimension to usefully categorise things.
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Originally posted by @ogbI get the very bad feeling that, like several people here asking us science/maths experts/semi-experts, you may be totally uninterested in learning anything from asking (thus won't) your question and are asking just for a response so you can have an argument. If you really want an explanation, why not just see wiki's explanation rather than ours here? Wiki's explanation would generally be better than ours here because it is much longer and thorough because it has been edited by experts over considerable time which we here either don't really have or are obviously unwilling to give.
What is a dimension, then. please explain..
Originally posted by @humyNo, he is a qualified PHYSICIST.
No, he is a qualified PHYSICIST.
That means if he says it's nonsense, unless you have good reason to believe the contrary, your default assumption should be it probably is.
A physicist is someone who explores and identifies the basic principles that govern the structure and behaviour of matter, the interaction between energy and matter, and the generation and transfer of energy.
Aren't we all?
Originally posted by @christopher-albonWhich probes do you think are off course? We did really good at Pluto.
First rule of science is to check the instruments isn't it? I must be rusty!
Edit. Is that why those probes you fired off are off course, relatively speaking?
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Originally posted by @christopher-albonDon't be discouraged. What these three know-it-alls don't seem to know (or refuse to acknowledge) is that anything they have learned is the end result of a creative process fueled by the same curiosity you have expressed.
Okay *skuttles back into cave*
What they purport to "know " is actually the end result of a creative process and work leading up to what they have learned. If they appear smart and knowledgeable it's only because they had the fortitude to read and remember (and possibly understand) the finished product of a body of work built up over the years by the creative work of others.
In other words, they know what they've been told. And if they don't fully understand what they've learned it doesn't really matter to them, because they are now in a position to play the gods of Science and squelch any curiosity (expressed by the unwashed masses) that could possibly bring into question what they 'know'.
Originally posted by @twhiteheadOften you need more than one such scale and thus more than one dimension to usefully categorise things.
A single dimension is a linear scale on which everything in a given space can be placed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension\
Often you need more than one such scale and thus more than one dimension to usefully categorise things.
3 seems to be the minimum requirement for actual physical existence.
But what do I know, it may only seem that way because I just happen to be a 3D entity residing in a 3D universe.