Talk:Fourth dimension in literature

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First, awesome assembly of different examples. Kudos.

Second, I think there is a general allusion to the fourth (or several higher) dimensions in SF in "hyperspace" drives. After all a hypercube is a tesseract. Hyperspace is sometimes used as a synonym for the fourth dimension (in geometry). And the ships wink in and out of "normal" space.

Another example is in Heinlein's Starman Jones: the mechanism of FTL is described as movement through anomalies where space is folded close to each other). The discussion of folding a scarf and putting it in a thimble for instance (as if someone had folded the Flatlander's world.) And the shifts are instantaneous across great stretches of 3-D space. There is also a discussion where the protagonist is playing 3-D chess and describing it to a girl...and mentions that the real studs do 4-D chess. FWIW, the protagonist is a "hillbilly".

Interestingly, Heinlein's high school classmates said this about him, "He thinks in terms of the fifth dimension, never stopping at the fourth" in the yearbook.

TCO (talk) 00:02, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Communication with additional dimensions

A person is capable of writing and/or reading with additional dimensions if writing and/or reading is more rigorously defined.

Word (disambiguation) Word (mathematics), an ordered sequence of symbols chosen from a predetermined set or alphabet Word (group theory), a product of group elements and their inverses

Currently for humans, concepts (in my opinion) are more fundamental than language and mathematics in general because, for language amd mathematics (which in my opinion is a form of language), a person is constrained to an ordered sequence of symbols chosen from a predetermined set or alphabet to communicate - this includes communicating axioms. Concepts, however, do not require language and can be represented and communicated through art without the need to define language. Moreover a person may be capable of concisely communicating meaning and/or information if the aforementioned notions incorporate aspects of language(s).

Consider the following: a person may define rules for writing and/or reading as left to right and top to bottom; however, a person may instead define the rules for writing and/or reading to be time dependent in which case the person would then be writing or/and reading in more dimensions. To make the spacetime writing and/or reading easier to understand, a person can define the direction of writing and/or reading as a spacetime vector(s) denoted by an arrow(s). Expanding on the aforementioned methods, think of concepts, then use colour and/or art to represent these concepts. This may result in a person being capable of concisely conceptualizing and communicating complicated concepts without the need to rigorously define the language. Some aspects of language(s) may be incorporated into the work to assist with communication and understanding of concepts previously considered using language(s).

I am in the process of uploading an image of an example of a work in progress that incorporates the concepts conveyed in this text, however it is tedious to upload images on Wikipedia and when I upload my image, it gets rotated and becomes illegible... I am troubleshooting this as I would like to properly upload the image to Wikipedia today in celebration of Galactic Tick Day.UniversalHumanTranscendence (talk) 23:18, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]