https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/categories/15/tags/2216.rssNew Posts Tagged 'spacetime-dimensions' - Scientific SpeculationScientific Speculation - Codidact2020-05-19T23:35:01Zhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/263268Could aliens from beyond the singularity of a rotating black hole survive and colonise regions of a normal universe?Ichthys Kinghttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/448042020-05-19T22:14:33Z2020-05-19T23:35:01Z<p>Would it be possible for aliens that originated and evolved in a planetary system beyond the ring singularity of a rotating black hole to send individuals out into a normal universe to colonise ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/254146Schwarzschild Metric in a universe with the same space time metric as that described in the orthogonal series, but with massive gravitons?Anders Gustafsonhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/379592019-07-08T05:54:05Z2020-02-26T02:50:54Z<p>The universe described in the orthogonal series <a href="http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/00/PM.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/00/PM.html</a> is one, in which the mi...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/246416Flipped over through fourth dimension. When do I start to notice biological problems?notovnyhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/389932018-09-30T17:50:29Z2020-01-08T16:47:13Z<p>In the middle of the night, while J. Random Human is sleeping, A. Hypersphere picks him hyper-up extremely carefully (so that none of his matter falls out in a direction he doesn't have), flips ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/239369How could two alternate realities "blend" at a single point in space time?Lenhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/74542018-02-12T17:58:07Z2020-01-08T04:27:22Z<p>From: </p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse</a></p>
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<p>The multiverse (or meta-universe) is a hypo...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/259114How would wormholes and teleportation affect the passage of time?Systemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/-12020-01-04T17:43:08Z2020-01-04T20:13:13Z<p>Time is not a constant, Albert Einstein proved that much. Time dilation is a difference in the elapsed time measured by two clocks, either due to them having a velocity relative to each other, o...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/258810Formula for send and response times of messages at fraction of light speed?Jesse Tatehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/444502019-12-24T21:05:30Z2019-12-29T18:34:11Z<p>I have a ship that begins the equation traveling at 50 percent the speed of light, but decelerating constantly to finally land on a certain planet (towards which it is moving the entire time). I...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/255293Technology to see an invisible beingShalon Simshttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/434992019-08-20T18:36:14Z2019-08-23T20:09:26Z<p>I have a world where there are two types of beings. One type, let's call them X, exist in our "dimension," and the other, let's call them Y, exist in another "phase" or dimension. </p>
<p>Only ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/254861What would the experience be like for a human transported to 4 dimensions?Nico Ahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/382082019-08-06T02:03:37Z2019-08-10T06:57:39Z<p>Our universe has 3 global spatial dimensions - that much I know. I am almost sure, based on an incredibly shoddy knowledge of physics, that there couldn't possibly be a 4th spatial dimension tha...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/210704What would the periodic table of a 4-Dimensional universe look like?Monty Wildhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78512015-03-26T23:44:51Z2019-08-02T16:48:10Z<p>In <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/10901/75">this question</a>, I asked about a universe with (amongst other things) 4 large spatial dimensions.</p>
<p>In 3 dimensions, we ha...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/214394Consequences of a two-dimensional universe on cells and lifegod of llamashttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/375002015-09-29T19:02:18Z2019-07-17T03:57:50Z<p>Suppose you have a 2+1 dimensional universe where the physics of that universe (we'll assume that the physics causes something similar to chemistry and that there is no gravity, but there is spe...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/214768Chemistry in two spatial dimensions?Anders Gustafsonhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/379592015-10-14T08:31:21Z2019-07-17T00:30:09Z<p>I know that someone has asked how chemistry would be in four dimensions but I was wondering what would chemistry be like in two dimensions? From what I understand, in two dimensions, particles, ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/273688Body plan of a 4D human-analog?Logan R. Kearsleyhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/367162019-06-19T17:20:51Z2019-06-21T03:33:53Z<p>I am attempting to design aliens that live in a universe with a 4+1 space-time--i.e., a universe with <em>four</em> orthogonal spatial dimensions, rather than three, in addition to a fifth time ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/273573Aliens in a 4D universe try to explore our 3D spacetime fabric: How can they do it?Christmas Snowhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/412212019-04-12T20:11:04Z2019-04-13T14:10:19Z<p>They do not necessarily meet humans and try to interact with them. This question is more about the technical possibility/impossibility of 4D aliens being able to "analyze" the inner structure of...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/251698Can mass be shunted off into hyperspace, but the matter remains?Ushumgalluhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/436502019-04-03T16:35:57Z2019-04-03T19:28:56Z<p>My question is this: can excess mass be bled off into hyperspace (the large and compact extra dimensions, not the Star Wars-esque swirling vortex), yet the matter remains in our universe?</p>
<...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/246732How to feed parity transformed John Doe?jk - Reinstate Monicahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/386532018-10-13T18:02:12Z2018-10-13T19:21:14Z<p>We do not know how exactly it happened, but poor John Doe made a space-time trip along a three dimensional analog of a Möbius strip (a Klein bottle). He is now back on Earth, but he is now the ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/245625Aritifical Gravity through Rotating wheel generalisation in a spatial 4th dimensionJordi Serrahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/428942018-09-04T10:19:14Z2018-09-04T17:52:54Z<p>I'm taking the example of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_wheel_space_station" rel="noreferrer">rotating wheel space station</a>, in which artificial gravity is created through...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/245578Using Microscopic Dimensions to Hide ObjectsEl Cadejohttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/22232018-09-03T02:24:22Z2018-09-03T14:18:16Z<p>Idea prompted by Brian Greene's <em>The Elegant Universe</em>: String theory postulates microscopic dimensions in space. Could you conceal an object by rotating it into one of the microscopic ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/245049Would an explosion or energy discharge permeate to other spatial dimensions?Systemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/-12018-08-21T15:12:41Z2018-08-26T05:33:52Z<p>Let's assume there are more than 3 spatial dimension, for example 4 (the 4th not beeing time, but spatial)</p>
<p><strong>Would a common energy discharge, explosion etc. affect the 4th dimensio...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/273247Astronomy in a universe with two "straight" dimensions plus a highly curved dimensiontox123https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/254032018-08-22T23:01:10Z2018-08-24T11:52:43Z<p>So for lack of a better term (I'm sure there is a better term) imagine a universe without curvature as being like a sheet of paper. You have left, right, forwards, backwards, up, and down. Now t...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/243859What would a area of slower/faster time look like?laundmohttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/426832018-07-20T12:38:13Z2018-07-20T18:35:07Z<p>I've been thinking about doing something involving bubbles of stopped (<a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/44790/how-would-stopped-time-look-from-the-outside">already answ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/209812Physical laws for a matter-filled universeMonty Wildhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78512015-02-26T01:44:44Z2018-07-17T16:59:41Z<p><strong>The Setting:</strong></p>
<p>I have an idea for a universe that, in an inversion to our own, is filled for the most part with matter in solid, liquid, gaseous or plasma form, while vacu...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/225282Is there a problem with interpreting dark matter as hidden dimensions?Lunahttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/397672016-11-17T01:04:11Z2018-06-29T19:34:53Z<p>Is there any solid, scientific counterargument against the hypothetical explanation that attributes dark matter as matter in hidden planes of existence?</p>
<p>I am trying to construct a world ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/239143How could it be possible to exert gravity without mass?Lenhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/74542018-02-06T17:59:08Z2018-02-20T23:44:52Z<p>Some of what I read in <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/68903/how-could-a-4d-organism-influence-events-in-our-world/68908#comment314235_68908">How could a 4D organism i...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/214759What would organisms be like in four physical dimensions?Monty Wildhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78512015-10-14T03:35:09Z2018-01-13T01:00:09Z<p>In <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/10901/75">this question</a>, I asked about a matter-filled 4-spatial-dimensional universe, with a gross structure defined by my own <a href=...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/209732Interactions with higher dimensionsMonty Wildhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78512015-02-23T00:04:46Z2017-11-02T15:09:50Z<p>I was reading <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/201/201-h/201-h.htm" rel="nofollow">Flatland</a>, and the thought occurred to me that interaction between an n-dimensional being and a n+1+-...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/234367Does time dilatation make travelling close to the speed of light redundant?Lorry Laurence mcLarryhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/34922017-09-02T12:50:01Z2017-09-02T14:17:52Z<p>I find time dilation confusing so I'm not sure if it is a relevant factor.</p>
<p>Lets say you have a spaceship. There's no such thing as faster than light travel, but you do have inertial damp...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/225838How can it be bigger on the insideHariz Rizkihttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/396142016-12-01T19:15:54Z2017-08-23T20:07:51Z<p>We have these "magical" items everywhere in fiction; from the classic rabbit coming out of a hat illusion, to the TARDIS from <em>Doctor Who</em>, to Newest Magical Beast Newt Scamander Briefcas...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/232966Could you have more than one building in the same spot by "stacking" them in 4th dimensional space?AJ D.https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/61972017-07-17T05:45:58Z2017-07-20T21:32:35Z<p>In my universe a 4th <strong><em>SPACIAL</em></strong> dimension exists around our 3 dimensions. I'm playing with ideas for a society that has access to a 4th spacial dimension and am currently ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/2330564D Digestive System StructureAlex Binnardhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/411602017-07-19T19:43:52Z2017-07-19T22:58:58Z<p>Note: I'm talking about a fourth spatial dimension.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, a 2 dimensional creature has one possible digestive system structure; have a cavity inside its body connected to...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/230644How would time dilation by one character affect other characters in the same system?Kshitij Naithanihttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/407692017-04-24T20:07:12Z2017-04-25T12:46:57Z<p>I am in the midst of writing a book wherein one of my characters (Let's call her X) can affect spacetime, mostly by causing time to dilate. </p>
<p>My character is earthbound and a shadow organ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/229719Will This Violate Causality?Douglashttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/404882017-03-22T16:42:47Z2017-03-23T11:07:16Z<p>Okay, so I have a sci-fi setting in which there is a form of FTL travel.</p>
<p>Imagine the universe(all three/four dimensions of it) was stretched out onto the surface of a sphere.</p>
<p>Now...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/229554If an immortal, fabricated particle could travel FTL, would it exist in all times, or only the past relative to its present?Bangohttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/46142017-03-16T21:21:11Z2017-03-23T02:44:24Z<p>This seemed too scifi or hypothetical for physics, so here goes.</p>
<p>Suppose a manipulated quark with 0 mass could travel faster than the speed of light. It's known that the faster you go, ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/229017What would a 'bend' in space-time look like to the external observerSystemhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/-12017-03-02T22:44:19Z2017-03-04T02:47:32Z<p>Judy likes coffee. Right now he is standing in the middle of the urban park sipping it.</p>
<p>Unbeknownst to him a local phenomena occurs somewhat near: space itself bends where a lovely group...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/228891What happens to the space created due to wormholes?Karan Desaihttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/49182017-02-25T09:12:15Z2017-02-26T08:11:49Z<p>I am working on a story which is based on space time hacking and moderation. While researching I found that a wormhole is simply a Folded time-space-as shown in demonstration below (Image credit...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/217159Multidimensional Time-LinesChef Cyanidehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/383912016-02-12T20:43:52Z2017-01-21T23:33:25Z<p>Ever since grade school, we have been taught to visualize time in the form of a time-line. This model works particularly well considering the fact that, according to widely accepted scientific t...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/222257How far can space time be warped, twisted, and pulled?Mattiashttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/390022016-08-21T06:48:29Z2016-11-10T16:16:26Z<p>In the story I'm writing, an ancient civilization once roamed the local group, traveling from galaxy to galaxy with ease. Thousands of millennia after their disappearance, humanity stumbles acro...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/222987How to weigh a flatlander in 2D gravity?user6760https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/373502016-09-09T06:20:14Z2016-09-10T23:39:00Z<p>Newton who laid out a set of mathematical rules to predict the motion of objects from a falling apple to planets orbiting the Sun, however it was Einstein who described how two masses tend to ac...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/220671Explained? Dimensional travel limitBRPocockhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/367832016-07-08T02:17:25Z2016-07-09T03:20:03Z<p>Asking for what pseudoscience might explain a storytelling need:</p>
<p>Given parallel dimensions (worlds), we discover that through a portal device, a person equipped with a special spacesuit-...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/220099Speeding up time?Ruok2buhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/390332016-06-21T08:09:06Z2016-06-28T02:08:42Z<p>Any ideas how an advanced alien race could speed up time in a specific region of space?</p>
<p>I'm working on a storyline in which an alien race uses a time bubble to accelerate time so the con...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/220281Size of a multi dimensional Labyrinthlokimidgardhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/389522016-06-26T12:14:26Z2016-06-26T12:36:34Z<p>I'll have a limited space like $1 km^3$ that have (through handwaving) more then three dimensions. But anyone entering it would perceive it as a three dimensional space. A little bit like this <...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/219181Machines in four spatial dimensionsMonty Wildhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78512016-05-10T02:27:34Z2016-05-16T20:42:42Z<p>Assuming that we have <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/12993/75">a universe with four spatial dimensions plus time</a>, within which atoms exist that can form solids, liquids, ...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/212709How can I confine (e.g. in level design) the actors in outer space?DraxDomaxhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/377012015-06-29T16:56:34Z2016-02-24T16:49:14Z<p>I want my actors in outer space but I don't want them roaming around freely.</p>
<p>Like, if the actors were in a building, there would be walls, doors, elevators.
If they were on a land, there...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/212892Where is the inside of the Tardis? Is it a world in itself? Is it part of a different world?chasly from UKhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/36272015-07-13T13:01:15Z2016-01-19T11:14:18Z<p>The Doctor's TARDIS is larger on the inside than on the outside. How can this be achieved?</p>
<p>The conventional answer is that </p>
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<p>The TARDIS is dimensionally transcenden...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/215837Geography in a universe with 4 spatial dimensionsMonty Wildhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/78512015-12-09T00:03:06Z2015-12-12T07:49:04Z<p>In <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/12993/75">my answer</a> to my own question, <a href="https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/10901/75">Physical laws for a matter-filled u...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/215383In three spatial dimensions, would it be possible to have a force that decreases with the inverse of the distance?Anders Gustafsonhttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/379592015-11-12T01:02:21Z2015-11-12T22:58:44Z<p>I know that in our universe, electromagnetism and gravity decrease with the inverse of the distance squared. Would it be possible though for there to be a force in another universe with three sp...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/211632Robbing the world of 1 seconduser6760https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/373502015-05-02T02:29:21Z2015-05-03T00:17:36Z<p><strong>Scenario</strong></p>
<p>Set in modern day Antarctica, a group of very talented scientists are working on a highly confidential scientific experiment which would one day allow us to man...https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/209907Explanation for the creation/existence of a secondary physical space that experiences time differentlyshakycheesehttps://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/users/372182015-03-02T04:01:54Z2015-03-06T00:16:18Z<p>In this world I'm building, I need it to be possible to have enclosed spaces/worlds connected to the main one. Ideally the main world would closely resemble ours, with the same laws of energy/ph...