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4D object what is it like?

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Posted 03/01/03 - 08:30 PM:	#2
look around you. There everywhere.
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Posted 03/02/03 - 02:16 AM:	#3
Sorry I don't get it. Everything looks 3D to me or at least I have been taught that way. How do you see things differently?

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Posted 03/02/03 - 12:35 PM:	#4
TIme the 4th dimension.
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Posted 03/02/03 - 01:29 PM:	#5
All objects that exist in time have four dimensions, or occupy four dimension I suppose. A 3D object surely would only exist speculatively?

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Posted 03/02/03 - 02:10 PM:	#6
So basically at one point in time the object is there and maybe at another point it is no longer there. So a 4d object is 5meters high by 2 meters long by 1 metre wide at 16:00 12th may 2002 or whatever. Is that right?

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Posted 03/02/03 - 04:31 PM:	#7
if time is the 4th dimension if you make a 2d drawing, you are really making a 3d drawing But I still think the existance of time might be impossible, and time is just a faculty of our reason, in this I'm with Kant.

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Posted 03/02/03 - 05:16 PM:	#8
But if time did not exist then there would be no change. All change must occur over time.
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Posted 03/02/03 - 07:03 PM:	#9
I'm not cmpletly against that, I realize there is change, but that change is not in function of something called time, instead, time is just our way, the way our Reason has to understand change. For example if you had no reason, you could not follow a chain of events, becuase ypu wouldn't find any logic, our conception of time, is just donde so we can understand change in what has been donde and is done, and that one follows the other, but it's just in our heads. imagine a photo camera, if you let the diaphragm open for a few seconds, what is to be seen when the phot is revealed, not a chain of events, not one followed by the other, but all events at the same time. That's because through a camera, that doesn't have any reason, you can't percibe time, you can only percibe events, and what you see is diferent events all at once, not diferent times. But still I might be wrong.

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Posted 03/02/03 - 07:03 PM:	#10
btw: chec the thread about time and god...http://forums.philosophyforums.com...hread.php?s=&threadid=1544

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