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goatfire · 08-02-2003, 05:46 AM

i tend to think of time existing....it is a dimension its just that we can only be exposed to cross sections of it.
think of the analogy of a 2D being who exists on a surface. If it came into contact with a 3D being it would not be capable of seeing the entire 3D being at once but only cross sections of it as it passes through the 2D plane. Say the 3D object was a simple shpere.....the 2D creature would see a small circle growing into a larger circle then decreasing to a smaller circle before disappearing. Now bring the analogy to a 3D world as in interacts with a 4D "thing". We could only see "cross sections" of this dimension. If we could "jump up" to the 4D realm we would be able to see the entire 4D world and not just little parts of it. We would see our lives from beginning to end as on big "blur". sorry this was sort of a ramble.

08-02-2003, 05:46 AM	#44 (permalink)
goatfire Upright Location: Halifax	i tend to think of time existing....it is a dimension its just that we can only be exposed to cross sections of it. think of the analogy of a 2D being who exists on a surface. If it came into contact with a 3D being it would not be capable of seeing the entire 3D being at once but only cross sections of it as it passes through the 2D plane. Say the 3D object was a simple shpere.....the 2D creature would see a small circle growing into a larger circle then decreasing to a smaller circle before disappearing. Now bring the analogy to a 3D world as in interacts with a 4D "thing". We could only see "cross sections" of this dimension. If we could "jump up" to the 4D realm we would be able to see the entire 4D world and not just little parts of it. We would see our lives from beginning to end as on big "blur". sorry this was sort of a ramble.