Scientism condemns such assertions as either fraudulent or hallucinatory because if they were accepted as legitimate, our entire conception of reality would collapse – an appalling prospect, challenging the credibility of all self-appointed official observers. Nevertheless, when faced with such an abundance of anomalous data any fearless spectator might suggest that our concepts of dimensional location need to be re-evaluated and clarified.
At its simplest, the experience of three-dimensional space is the awareness of three perpendicular axes: North-South, East-West and Up-Down (e.g., a cube). Two-dimensional space (a flat plane) contains only two of these axes, and one-dimensional space consists of only one axis – a single line.
Time is also a dimension, though not a spatial one; however, it is a necessary extension to our awareness of space, and so we normally describe our reality as three dimensions of space, plus one dimension of time – the so-called “four-dimensional space-time continuum.” Even small children can understand this because we spend all our lives living within its confines: it’s an experience so commonplace and taken-for-granted that we never really think about it. (It is, after all, our consensus reality).
Four-dimensional space, on the other hand, though
mathematically describable, is a concept virtually impossible to
visualise. That’s because progression from one spatial dimension to
another follows a logical sequence of perpendicular extension: a plane
is merely the extension of a line in a direction at right-angles
(“perpendicular”) to that line’s axis; a cube is created when a plane is
extended at right-angles to that plane’s axis. This is easy enough to
portray as long as we’re dealing with three dimensions or lower, but in
what perpendicular direction would a cube have to move to create
four-dimensional space? Even if you know the secret, the mind boggles
and goes into spasms while trying to visualise it....<<<Read More>>>...
