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Originally Posted by MageB420666
Wait..... when did any of those become dimensions? Seems to me that several of those are measures of energy and fields.
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It depends on how you define dimensions. While space and time get all the play in popular culture, physicists and scientists can and do define a dimension as any kind of basic quantity through which other quantities can be expressed. Take a Newton: kg*m/s^2. The dimensions of the Newton are mass, length, and time
Time and space are just measurements of time and space, nothing special about them really, except perhaps that they are the most viscerally experienced dimensions. Maybe time is unique in that it is the dimension in which things happen. Beyond that, space is nothing more than a set of other dimensions that don't happen to be linearly dependent.