What is Higher dimensions: Definition and 81 Discussions

Carlton D'metrius Pearson (born March 19, 1953) is an American Christian minister. At one time, he was the pastor of the Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center Incorporated, later named the Higher Dimensions Family Church, which was one of the largest churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the 1990s, it grew to an average attendance of over 6,000. Due to his stated belief in universal reconciliation, Pearson rapidly began to lose his influence in ministry with the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops and was eventually declared a heretic by his peers in 2004.
Pearson has subsequently been the senior minister of Christ Universal Temple, a large New Thought congregation in Chicago, Illinois; head of a new Higher Dimensions fellowship in Chicago; and an affiliate minister at Tulsa's All Souls Unitarian Church.

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    Do we move through higher dimensions?

    Hey there, I've just started learning quantum mechanics and I'm currently reading about gravity and higher dimensions. That is, I know so very little and would like to see if somebody could lend me some clarification . The uncertainty relation comes from the fact that matter waves in and out...
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    Entropy and Energy in Higher Dimensions

    How do we know that energy behaves the same way in higher dimensions as it does for 3-dimensions? With a higher dimensional freedom, it might actually behave differently - if, for example, time were a flexible degree of freedom, then descriptions, such as entropy, wouldn't necessarily be...
  3. K

    Electromagnetism=gravity in higher dimensions

    I recently read an article(http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.900-beyond-space-and-time-5d--into-the-unseen.html) that said that gravity in the fifth dimension could be electromagnetism, but wasn't his math flawed? I seem to recall there being something wrong with this idea.
  4. W

    Can Gravity Escape Higher Dimensions in String Theory?

    according to string theory, gravity got the ability to escape the D-brane of witch all matter is bound. The reason is that the boson carrying the gravity is a loop-string, with no open ends linking to the brane.. this theory should explain why the gravity is so much weaker than the other forces...
  5. S

    What Do Equations Expressing Higher Dimensions Look Like?

    Ok, I often hear that things become more easily understood in higher dimensions. I also hear that it is easier to express them in math than with words. But what does equations that express higher dimensions look like? Is it something as simple as (x,y,z,w)? I might be over thinking this far...
  6. L

    Vector calculus in higher dimensions

    in 2d, "curl"(grad(f)) = 0 "curl" is the operation that green's tehorem talks about. In 3D, curl(grad(f)) = 0 and div(curl(F)) = 0. We may consider vector calculus in 4 spatial dimensions, for vector fields F:R^4 -> R^4. what is "curl" like in 4D, since curl is actually only difined in 3D...
  7. S

    Distance formula in higher dimensions.

    Homework Statement Let A = (a_1, . . . , a_{2008}) \in \Re^{2008}, where a_i = \frac{1}{2^{i}} for each i = 1, . . . , 2008. Find the distance from the point A to the origin. Please express your answer in the form \sqrt{\frac{a}{b}} where a, b are integers. Homework Equations Extended...
  8. W

    Robertson-Walker metric in higher dimensions (and problematic Riemann tensor)

    Hello folks, this is going to be a bit longish, but please bear with me, I'm going nuts over this. For a term paper I am working through a paper on higher dimensional spacetimes by Andrew, Bolen and Middleton. You can http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0373" . My problem/confusion is in...
  9. U

    Is it possible that there are organisms in higher dimensions?

    hi, as the topic title suggests, is that possible? i was reading an article on string theory and i vaguely recall that humans live in a 3d world with an additional dimension of time. if we can live in such a space time dimension, would it be possible that there are organisms/beings living...
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    Maxwell equations in higher dimensions

    My main question is if the Maxwell equations have been generalized to include extra dimensions in an generally accepted form, or is it still under investigation? I've already read http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0609260v4 but I didn't quite like the add-hoc assertion We assert that in all...
  11. quasar987

    Something strange about uniqueness of the derivative in higher dimensions

    Recall that for a function f:A\subset \mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^m, the derivative of f at x is defined as the linear map L:R^n-->R^m such that ||f(x+h)-f(x)-L(h)||=o(||h||) if such a linear map exists. We can show that for certain geometries of the set A, when the derivative exists...
  12. K

    Pauli Matrices in higher dimensions

    This has been bugging me for a while, but feel to tell me if it's a nonsensical or silly question.. Suppose there were 4 spatial dimensions instead of 3. How would we go about constructing the Pauli matrices? Assuming each matrix still only has 2 eigenvectors, we require 4, 2x2 mutually...
  13. S

    Curl or maxwell equations in higher dimensions

    Anyone know what topic, branch of math, book, or subject I should look up in order to find a formulation for Maxwell's equations in higher spatial dimensions? I don't mean having time as a 4rth dimension. I mean a 4rth (and more) spatial dimension. This would require the maxwell exquations...
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    Do Equations in More Than Three Variables Represent Graphs in Higher Dimensions?

    Hello, I posted this several weeks ago in another forum, but I never really got a good answer. Could someone please take a look at this an tell me if it's mathematically valid? Thanks! Do Equations in More Than Three Variables Represent Graphs in Higher Dimensions...
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    Do Equations in More Than Three Variables Represent Graphs in Higher Dimensions?

    Hey, first of all, I'd like to apologize if I'm posting this in the wrong forum. I wasn't sure whether I should post it here or in the mathematics forum. Recently I was going through an Algebra book, and I saw a chapter on solving linear equations in three variables. The book explained how these...
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    Maxwell's equations in higher dimensions.

    I'm not sure if this should go here, or in electrodynamics, or in relativity, but never mind. I'm given to understand that Maxwell's equations are completely compatible with the theory of relativity, and apply over all distance scales. I've also heard of Kaluza-Klein theories in which adding a...
  17. A

    Calculating Limits of Functions in R^2 or Higher Dimensions

    Hi, I'm sort of new to the calculation of limits of functions defined in R^2( or R^n, n>=2) exp. the limit of sqrt{hk/(h^2+k^2)} as (h,k) --> (0,0) I think it should be 1/sqrt(2) if we let h=k. but I'm not sure if this is the right approach. what about other limits in the form "0/0" as...
  18. R

    Understanding Metric Tensor in Higher Dimensions

    Hi, This might sound a very basic question to most of you all. But could you kindly give me some information on what eactly is a Metric Tensor and what is its significance in the higher dimension study? (Wiki or Google info seemed too cryptic. Thus...I ask you) Thank You
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    Higher dimensions and symmetry

    I can't quite remember where I got this idea, but once my brain remembered one point about higher dimensions(that of how each higher dimension, at least in terms of the first three dimensions, is at 90 degrees from one another. Well, actually how can you say the first dimension is 90 degrees...
  20. Hans de Vries

    Detecting and analyzing higher dimensions via the EM radiation field.

    This should be possible with table top experiments rather than LHC scale experiments:abstract: Electromagnetic radiation decays with 1/r in three dimensional space, while the non radiating Coulomb field decays faster with 1/r^2. The general expressions for any dimension are 1/r^{(d-1)/2} for...
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    Theorem of Curves in higher dimensions

    I just finished learning the fundamental theorem of curves in 3 dimensions. As a reminder, this is the theorem that states that a continuous, C infinity, unit speed curve in 3d is uniquely determined by its curvature and torsion (up to actions by SE(3), that is rotations and translations)...
  22. Y

    Experimental evidence of higher dimensions. What will they be?

    Has there been any direct or indirect evidence from particle accelerators, telescopes, or observatories that the universe has more than 3 spatial dimensions? If not, what kind of evidence or data are particle physicists looking for? Are there some unexplained phenomenon that could only be...
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    Conceptualizing higher dimensions

    Stephen Hawking has said that even he can't comprehend higher than 3 dimensions in any intuitive way, only in a mathematical way. But in the course of studying advanced physics, does your intuitive understanding of higher dimensions grow at all, or do you just rely on the math?
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    Explain to me how a sphere can exist in higher dimensions?

    could someone explain to me how a sphere can exist in higher dimensions? Would it just be a 3d sphere suspended within a 4d hyperspace? Lastly, caould the reason be as to why we can't see these other dimensions be because light goes underneath these other dimensions?
  25. W

    Cross product in higher dimensions?

    Although, the dot product works in infitine dimensions, it is not the case for the cross product. Anybody know in what dimensions the cross product can be defined?
  26. N

    What is the impact of higher dimensions on our understanding of space and time?

    I wanted to bring this forward from another thread because I think we may be getting at an important point regarding dimensionality. The last post in the thread is quoted below: Consider the three spatial basis lines, x, y, z. If there is velocity in x, then there is Lorenz contraction...
  27. N

    Attempt to visualize higher dimensions

    This thread is for discussion and presentation of results in the attempt to visualize higher dimensions. My current work involves identifying stucture in the 4d world of spacetime equivalence. Marcus showed me that structures in spacetime are related to the Pascal triangle, and selfAdjoint...
  28. wolram

    Higher Dimensions: Exploring the Unseen World

    Basically what are they, and how going about our normal activities would we notice them? Its hard for me to imagine them, how do they interact, is spacetime the same looking out from each dimension, could a six dimensional object exist?
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    Mathematica Mathematical representation of higher dimensions

    I'm rather new to physics in general, so bear with me in my potential ignorance. Considering we have no idea of the absolute properties of higher dimensions, how is it that they're identified in equations? This especially perplexes me when thinking about the Kaluza-Klein theory, or even...
  30. P

    Exploring Higher Dimensions: Flatland & Beyond

    After reading the book Flatland, i got to thinking about higher spatial dimensions. The characters in flatland see each other as lines, while we see them as shapes. Wouldn't there be a spatial dimension higher than three in which one can see the insides of three dimensional objects? Thoughts?
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    Higher dimensions, quantum inflations, multiverses, and their interactions.

    I am here to ask what anyone thinks on the concept of things beyond this universe, such as a multiverse, quantum inflations, or higher dimensionality. Thanks.
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