Nov 3, 2026 11:03 PM
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From 0D to infinity
https://youtu.be/-gPFxMHWV8w
VIDEO EXCERPT: Imagine a giant continuous space-time worm made up of millions of your copies. At one end of this structure is a baby being born. Further along this long body rise through space, here it is walking to school, here it is sitting on a chair right now, and finally it ends as an old person taking their last breath.
In 4D, there's no past or future. There is no movement. There's only this giant frozen monolith of your life from beginning to end. To a four-dimensional being, your life is not a story, it is an object. But the 4D monolith is just one rigidly fixed line. Let's take a step into the fifth dimension. And here we transition from strict geometry into a convenient pop sci metaphor.
What could the next direction be after time? Possibility. The axis of alternative outcomes. In quantum mechanics, this is Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation. In 4D, you had only one destiny. But if we imagine every event and every choice as a crossroads, then in the fifth dimension, your temporal worm splits in two at the moment of every outcome, then again and again.
Your body in 5D turns into a colossal infinitely branching fractal. A massive tree, as it were. A perfect example of how this feels is the video game The Alters, where every new clone at the base is you having taken an alternate branch. For the massive narrative flowcharts in games like Detroit: Become Human.
Here the branch where you become a millionaire, the branch where you're never born at all, and the branch where you're watching this video right now all exist simultaneously. For a five-dimensional being, there's no concept of fate or inevitability. It sees this entire fractal of your lives as a single whole.
You're no longer one person, you're an entire forest of all the people you could have become. Moreover, to it, these alternate realities are not separate worlds, they're simply different directions in space. But even this infinite fractal of lives is constrained by the laws of our physics. So, we collapse your entire giant tree of probabilities back into a single point and pull another perpendicular axis out of it.
Welcome to the sixth dimension...
https://youtu.be/-gPFxMHWV8w
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-gPFxMHWV8w
https://youtu.be/-gPFxMHWV8w
VIDEO EXCERPT: Imagine a giant continuous space-time worm made up of millions of your copies. At one end of this structure is a baby being born. Further along this long body rise through space, here it is walking to school, here it is sitting on a chair right now, and finally it ends as an old person taking their last breath.
In 4D, there's no past or future. There is no movement. There's only this giant frozen monolith of your life from beginning to end. To a four-dimensional being, your life is not a story, it is an object. But the 4D monolith is just one rigidly fixed line. Let's take a step into the fifth dimension. And here we transition from strict geometry into a convenient pop sci metaphor.
What could the next direction be after time? Possibility. The axis of alternative outcomes. In quantum mechanics, this is Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation. In 4D, you had only one destiny. But if we imagine every event and every choice as a crossroads, then in the fifth dimension, your temporal worm splits in two at the moment of every outcome, then again and again.
Your body in 5D turns into a colossal infinitely branching fractal. A massive tree, as it were. A perfect example of how this feels is the video game The Alters, where every new clone at the base is you having taken an alternate branch. For the massive narrative flowcharts in games like Detroit: Become Human.
Here the branch where you become a millionaire, the branch where you're never born at all, and the branch where you're watching this video right now all exist simultaneously. For a five-dimensional being, there's no concept of fate or inevitability. It sees this entire fractal of your lives as a single whole.
You're no longer one person, you're an entire forest of all the people you could have become. Moreover, to it, these alternate realities are not separate worlds, they're simply different directions in space. But even this infinite fractal of lives is constrained by the laws of our physics. So, we collapse your entire giant tree of probabilities back into a single point and pull another perpendicular axis out of it.
Welcome to the sixth dimension...
https://youtu.be/-gPFxMHWV8w