2011/4/5 Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, András Murányi wrote: > > i like it! when Matju mentioned 15 dimensions, this one came to my mind: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_GQqUg6Ts >> > > Is this serious ? I don't know much about recent physics, but this doesn't > sound like the same 10-dimensional system as is being talked about in string > theory, for example. I mean the dimensions beyond the first four. > > Additionally, talking about all possible timelines as being only one extra > dimension, is something really weird to me. With the usual expectations of > connectedness and metrics, possible worlds that are similar to each other > ought to be close to each other in the space of all possibilities, and there > are lots of things that can vary, so, you need a lot of dimensions to go > with all those possibilities. Probably billions of billions of... I don't > know. > > But GridFlow's dimensions are a lot more mundane than that. I can have one > dimension for rows-of-rows and columns-of-columns, that is, groupings of > rows and columns. That was for the purpose of making mosaïcs. Usually, and > in that case, time is not a dimension in GridFlow, though it can be, as in > remap_video.pd and nervous_video.pd. >
Yeah, i'm really uneducated in these topics but it seems this video is more sci-fi than science... it is intriguing, nevertheless. What I heard is that quantum-physics and string theories have not been matched with each other yet, and to do so, you might need infinite-dimension spaces indeed (or a brave simplification, in which direction the video is an attempt). Time being a dimension is perfectly ok, however - but that's not any news. Andras
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