Dimensions

I came here to write an article upon seeing facebook photos of an orange faced young blonde woman who was evidently anorexic and the positive comments I saw. But that issue has been addressed so many times it's not interesting anymore. Besides I am not a feminist. I decided while the blondes of the world pursued their dream of becoming two dimensional I would write of something far more interesting. Dimensions.


It all began one dark night. I was in my bed alone in my room with the lights switched off and looking at the distant city lights.... :D I just had the urge to be overly dramatic. Recently one of my friends did mention imprisoning all mean people in a hypercube. which is how my new interest started.


As we all know there are three dimensions. I'm not a math scholar so I will speak in lay terms. Length, width and height. Then there's the relatively new dimension, time. 


Wikipedia defines a dimension as "The dimension of a space or object is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify each point within it."
In our everyday lives we use the three dimensions of Euclidean space. While the Minkowski space is a model created to explain Einstein's theory of special relativity. In Giving the coordinates of  an object Minkowski space uses the axis t to specify it's exact position in time. Which lead me to the question, where is 0,0,0,0 or rather where was it? As yet, we haven't found the answers to that question though there have been many theories and fairy tales about it. 


Something that we all can grasp from it is that while we perceive the three main dimensions we cannot perceive time with our five senses. We can call ourselves three dimensional creatures since our bodies have three dimensions and our external senses can only grasp the concept of the three popular dimensions. How then would the world look like to a two dimensional creature? Nothing of this world would make sense to it. Imagine it seeing a cone base first. We would see an object with a flat circular base tapering smoothly into a point. But our two dimensional creature would perceive a series of flat circles gradually getting smaller and ultimately disappearing to a point. It cannot perceive the nature of a cone. Everyday tasks for us like descending or ascending a staircase would present a mystery to it as great as black holes to us. And above all it cannot perceive us.


Imagine the same small two dimensional creature being placed in a large glass jar. Without grasping the concept of height it has only a small chance of escaping it. If it somehow does escape from the "trap" without understanding the concept of  depth, it would consider it a miracle of whatever two dimensional god it worships. But WE of the three dimensions have no trouble at all of understanding a two dimensional world. So we can safely arrive to the conclusion that only a creature of higher dimensions can understand lower dimensions. Thus my friend's idea of trapping mean and stupid people in a hypercube. They will not be able to escape!!!


 Then we come to the question 'what if there are more dimensions?'. What if there are five, eleven or infinite number of dimensions? What exactly are black holes? Do the forces of the higher dimensions affect the objects in lower dimensions? What if atoms are more than one dimensional? The Large Hadron Collider is trying to find some answers. Tell ya when i read more on it. :)

Paying

Bella Swan got the vegetarian.

I get,

The dark shadow looming,

Death at it's fingertips,

Reaching out over the skies.

A simple little cut

Somewhere close to the heart.

Through it the blood draining

Yet on cold winter nights,

The warmth of it, Sustaining,

All my thoughts.

 Going free hurts worse.

Like salt.

Clinging on is the choice

For life.

While letting it be drained

Out of me.

Choosing the slow death over the swift.

"Bear the pain with a smile.

You didn't let go,

When I did"

Because I couldn't.

"Make mistakes.
But be willing

To pay the price"

Pay it with my life

Is what I do.

It's my mistake.

That invitation.

Over the threshold,

And Into my life.
Bella Swan got the vegetarian.

I didn't.