Monday, January 10, 2011

Are we an intersection?

One of my IB Maths assignments was called "How many pieces?" and its purpose was to investigate the maximum number of pieces obtained after we applied n cuts to a t-dimensional object. For example, for the simplest case of a 1-dimensional object (a line), each new cut will lead to one new piece. It was one of the most interesting projects I have complete till now and I have come up with some really challenging ideas. One of them can be put as a simple question:

Are we an intersection?

Imagine a 2-dimensional space. Now imagine two straight lines (1-dimensional objects) intersecting each other. They intersect at one point we call point of intersection and which is a 0-dimensional object.Now follow the same line of thought but in a 3-dimensional space. Imagine two planes (2-dimensional objects) intersecting each other. They intersect at a straight line we will call straight line of intersection and which is a 1-dimensional object.We can extrapolate these results and table them.

Space DimensionObjects DimensionIntersection Dimension
210
321
432
543
.........
n+2n+1n

Actually, the fourth row is the important one for this post. Our senses can only detect 3 dimensions, no more, no less, which makes us to believe (even though there is the possibility of that not being the truth) that the Universe is made of 3 dimensions.
If we observe the fourth row of the table, we see that the intersection dimension corresponds to exactly 3 dimensions. And now we reach the main point of this post!
Following this reasoning, the conclusion for this post is:

Our Universe might be the intersection between two four-dimensional Universes, in a fifth-dimensional space.

This thought opens the chance of the existence of other Universes similar to ours, resulting from the intersection of two other fourth-dimensional Universes.

1 comment:

  1. Antes de mais nada queria dar os parabéns há criação deste blog que mostra-se desde já muito promissor, e um bem-haja a vocês bem como felicidades ao vosso blog.
    Em relação ao post queria dizer que se mostrou bastante interessante e revelador, desenvolveste um raciocínio engraçado, elaborado mas claro, gostei bastante João, abraço!

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