The Fourth Dimension and Time Travelling

It may be difficult to understand the fourth dimension until you know about the fourth state of matter the plasma or ether (others are solid, liquid and Gas). But I will produce an analogy which will be helpful understanding the Fourth Dimension. But before that let me introduce you to the basic of the fourth dimension.

As you know that we live in 3 dimensional world. How? Because we have 3 dimensions for movement which are:

1.) Left/Right

2.) Back/Forth

3.) Up/Down



Because we have three possible directions, it will take three values to describe the position of any point (x,y,z). In two dimensions, we only need two points: (x,y). In three dimensions, I could tell you to go forward 8 feet, right 12 feet, then you reach a rope. Climb up the rope 6 feet. Notice that each of these three directions are perpendicular to each other... That means that any of the directions is its own and not combined of any of the other directions. That means I can go forward or backward all I want but I won't be going left or right, nor up or down. So if we were to consider a fourth dimension (x,y,z,t), it would have to be a new perpendicular direction in addition to the three directions we have free movement in.

Considering the Fourth Dimension:

Often it is helpful to visualize the way dimensions increase when considering the fourth dimension. Examine the chart on the right. Notice that the zero dimension is represented by a point, 1 dimensions is represented by a line, and 2 dimensions is represented by a square. When we try to express three dimensions on a flat surface, like your computer screen, we draw two squares and diagonal lines connecting the vertices. It represents a cube, but it is not actually a cube. So perhaps when we draw a 4 dimensional cube, we can draw two cubes and connect the diagonal vertices. That figure is called a hypercube. Keep in mind that trying to express a 4 dimensional hypercube on a 2 dimensional surface is not very helpful. But it at least helps you understand the kind of progression going on. Visualizing 4th dimensional objects is not important if you merely want do some simple computations. In other words we can say if we integrate any 3 dimesnional objest from 0 to infinity the system will be called in the fourth dimension.



Using Analogy to understand the 4th dimension:

Since it is hard to try to directly picture the fourth dimension in our minds, perhaps using analogy can help us. In 1884, Edwin Abbot wrote a book called "Flatland". The book writes about A. Square and his world, Flatland. You may have already guessed, but Flatland is a 2 dimensional, flat plane and A. Square is a square shaped guy who lives there. He has two dimensions of free movement. He can go left/right and back/forth, however because he is restricted to his 2 dimensional Flatland plane, he cannot go up/down off the plane. By analogy, we humans are restricted to our "plane" of existence... and it would be impossible for us to freely move in the fourth dimension. Let's go back to A. Square again. Note that A. Square can only see what lies in his plane of existence, which means if a 3 dimensional sphere were to pass through Flatland, A. Square would not see the sphere, but just 2 dimensional "slices". Taking this further, imagine if a sphere passed halfway through Flatland but stopped in the middle. the sphere would intersect Flatland as just one circle and A. Square could see it! Furthermore, imagine if as the sphere approaches Flatland, A. Square watches as the sphere slowly moves through his plane. What would A. Square see? Recall that A. Square can only see 2-d slices of the sphere (or circles) so what A. Square would perceive is a circle suddenly appearing, then growing... then reaching a maximum size as the sphere was halfway through and as it exited, the circle would grow smaller until it disappeared. This means that 3d objects could be explained to a 2d being as a bunch of "slices stacked" on top of each other. Try to imagine taking a bunch of circles and stacking them. They would begin to form a skeleton framework of the actual 3d image. Similarly if a 4d hypersphere would intersect our plane of existence, we would see a 3d sphere appear out of no where. It would grow until the hypersphere was halfway through, then it would shrink back to nothing. Theoretically, we could stack these spheres to form a hypersphere, but we can't stack them in the usual sense, but rather it would have to extend in the fourth dimension which takes us back to the original dilemma of trying to visualize it.

Now let me summarize, you have seen, while in 3 dimensions we can visualize only 2 dimensional plane. For example, you can't see the other side of a coin at single instance of time. But if you have mastered the 4^th dimension probably you can visualize the 3 dimensional spheres. Yes, I mean you can visualize any object from everywhere(up/down, right/left and back/forth) at one instance of time because you are present evrywhere around the object. Quite strange but this is how it is supposed to be. Once again I would like to talk about "Krishna". Krishna as I told in one of my previous article is the center of gravity of any system and of the universe. But he is the center of time too. The Sudarshan chakra in his hand symbolizes the kaalchakra (don't forget time is not linear, time is circular). He witnesses the whole universe at one time as all dimensions are within Him. If we master he 4^th dimension we can be the master our own universe(life) for sure.

Question arises how to master the fourth dimension. Well, if you think this can be the way to time travel, yes it can be. Einstein said if you can travel at the speed of light , you can time travel. Now, our physical body can never travel at the speed of light, but our consciousness can. If with the help of meditation or Yoga we attain the state of "zero" or "timelessness", our consciousness can time travel. Many people believe that when John F Kennedy was killed he was present in the parliament at the same time. Who knows?

For further knowing you can search the topics regression therapy, parapsychology and the state of timelessness.