2/2/06

4th Dimension Hell: Part I

I want to talk about the goddamn 4th Dimension. A lot of people have some perverted ideas about the 4th Dimension, so I'd like to set them straight.

"The 4th Dimension is Time, yamminy yamminy yamminy, I believe falsehoods!"

The 4th Dimension is not Time, that is completely ridiculous. Where do you get that notion? How does that actually make any sense? Examine your feeble television informed trivia and recognize that, in the most basic Sesame Street sense, one of these things is not like the other... one of these things is not quite the same. You see, the 4th Dimension is not unlike the 3 that we exist in. It is simply another spacial dimension!

This idea troubles a lot of small minds. For the purpose of illustration, consider Edwin Abbott's Flatland. 2 Dimensional beings see only lines. Imagine a plane going quite a long way up and down, and quite a long way left and right, but not going in and out at all. This is Flatland. In Abbott's book, a sphere enters Flatland. Just drifts through, and to a Flatlander, it looked like a line appearing, getting bigger, then getting smaller again before dissapearing. So we live in a 3 Dimensional world, right? Ever heard of things appearing and then dissapearing?

A 4th Dimensional being can go up and down, right and left, in and out, and (we'll call it) to and fro. We can't go to and fro; we're 3 Dimensional beings. So a 4th Dimensional being can move a little to, through our 3rd Dimension, then a little fro out of it. So this explains for all supernatural happenings ever! Ghosts, poltergiests, all that shit. 4th Dimensional beings fucking with us.

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