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The Fourth Dimension
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Unedited 7th Grade Version
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The fourth dimension is a undefined area in which objects must be located
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by four coordinates: north/south, east/west, up/down and ana/kata. In this
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report I attempt to give a brief summary of the fourth dimension by using
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various analogies between the second and third dimensions.
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There are many different views of the fourth dimension. One of them is
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that the fourth coordinate (ana/kata) is whatever it needs to be to solve
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whatever needs solving (i.e. time, etc.). Another one is that the fourth
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dimension is time/space in the sense that it controls them (space being
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abstract). A final one is that the fourth dimension is a combination of the
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above and more. What is explained here is the basic theorem of the fourth
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dimension using simple analogies.
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In Lineland - a mythical one dimensional world - all that a person would
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be able to see would be a point, because everything is just a line. In
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fact, some people would say that you couldn't even see that - because
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nothing has height or width. Whereas in Flatland - a mythical two
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dimensional world - all that one could see would be a line, or again, since
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nothing has height, nothing. (See figure 1 for Lineland and figure 2 for
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Flatland.)
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If a cube would put one of its faces against a second dimensional plane
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where a square were living all the square could see was part of another
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square because the square cannot look up or down. Therefore, if a sphere
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were passing throught flatland and our square was witnessing the event then
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the square would see a side of a circle getting larger and then shrinking
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(fig. 3). Likewise, if a hypersphere were to pass through the third
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dimension, you would see a sphere getting larger and then shrinking.
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Another aspect of dimensional interaction is reversal. Imagine that you
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were suddenly transformed into your mirror image by a fourth dimensional
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being. The being would only have to rotate you ana or kata and you would be
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reversed (fig. 4). It would be easier to imagine a three dimensional being
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rotating a two dimensional being into its mirror image (fig. 5).
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Using the directions ana and kata a fourth dimensional being could see
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the inside of things that we consider enclosed (i.e. the human body) and
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take those things without first opening the object (i.e. drinking wine out
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of a bottle without opening it.) (fig. 6). One could commit a "perfect
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crime" in the three dimensional world by using ana and kata to avoid
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boundaries and take an object - without even opening a safe (fig.7).
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Some believe that the fourth dimension is made up of planes. A plane is
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a level of life - for example, Christianity supports three seperate planes:
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Heaven, Earth, and Hell. Some religions state that there are seven planes,
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6 astral and 1 earthly. Other people think that there is an infinite number
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of planes and still others think that there are no planes whatsoever(fig.
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8). So how do planes tie in with the fourth dimension? Well, in example,
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if the planes of the fourth dimension were leveled off as colors, a creature
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from one plane could see his own color but would not notice another colored
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creature, in fact he wouldn't even feel that other creature. Confusing,
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isn't it?
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In conclusion, the fourth dimension is an interesting , fascinating,
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confusing world. Don't you agree?
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