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09-09-2005, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by AntonioLao
Dimension loses its directional property when it is bounded by a given Riemannian sphere. So that each concentric Riemannian sphere indicates a particular spacetime dimension. It is hard to imagine what dimensional sphere are we living in? But if we start from the nucleus as a dimensional sphere, then the atom, then the molecule, then the chemistry, then the biology, from these we are living in the fifth dimensional sphere.
But this is a different concept I believe. What I call direction is what you ussually refer to as "degree of freedom" (DOF). I believe that a dimension has to directions (degrees of freedom), but doesn't "go" one way or another, I mean, how can a dimension "move"? NO, objects move in dimensions, but not dimensions. If dimensions would move, or have a direction, then it would mean that there are dimensions for the dimensions, and this owul dbe very confusing...
  
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