We all know parallel lines and you can think of parallel planes, but what about the third dimension?

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I mean two parallel lines is easy to imagine and so is two parallel planes, think of two sheets of paper with some space between them, boom, parallel planes. So imagining from one dimensional to two dimensional is easy. But what about parallel three dimensional space? It's kind of hard to imagine. You see what I mean?
 
One time when I was young my dad grabbed a meat skewer off the grill and went to flip it around but it was too hot and he didn't realize it was hot so he threw it up in the air and it spun around and landed right in his calf muscle. He screamed "not again" and limped off to fix his leg up. Meanwhile the kebabs are burning on the grill and everyone is pretty upset and woried about his leg too.
 
smurfco said:
I mean two parallel lines is easy to imagine and so is two parallel planes, think of two sheets of paper with some space between them, boom, parallel planes. So imagining from one dimensional to two dimensional is easy. But what about parallel three dimensional space? It's kind of hard to imagine. You see what I mean?
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Somebody stayed home from work and took mushrooms.

Kidding. Yeah. I've often thought that....
 
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smurfco said:
One time when I was young my dad grabbed a meat skewer off the grill and went to flip it around but it was too hot and he didn't realize it was hot so he threw it up in the air and it spun around and landed right in his calf muscle. He screamed "not again" and limped off to fix his leg up. Meanwhile the kebabs are burning on the grill and everyone is pretty upset and woried about his leg too.
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Did your dad really do that more than once? Was it deja vu? Was everything okay?

The closest I've come to being around a grilling injury was a pair of singed eyebrows.
 
Well if you really want to get a good headache going, string theory suggests something like 11 dimensions - I forget the exact number - and branes. Our whole perceived universe could just be trapped in a giant 3-brane.

 
smurfco said:
I mean two parallel lines is easy to imagine and so is two parallel planes, think of two sheets of paper with some space between them, boom, parallel planes. So imagining from one dimensional to two dimensional is easy. But what about parallel three dimensional space? It's kind of hard to imagine. You see what I mean?
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two parallel cubes
 
My brain gets tired trying to grasp the concept of infinity.

I don't understand how something can't be infinitely divided either.
 
MonkeyZero said:
Parallel 3 dimensional space is just the space between the two planes twice. Add another piece of paper.
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Not if we are talking infinitely large cubes. Parallel infinite lines and planes are easy to imagine. Parallel “space”? [emoji848][emoji848][emoji848]
 
Andrew Sak said:
My brain gets tired trying to grasp the concept of infinity.

I don't understand how something can't be infinitely divided either.
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How much time do you spend on this per day? Cut it down to 5 minutes per day is my recommendation.

Infinity is the problem with god. Didn’t have a beginning? How the fuck did it ever get here? And what was it doing for an eternity in the past by itself? Sounds like bullshit to me. God must have had friends or siblings.




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rickenvox said:
How much time do you spend on this per day? Cut it down to 5 minutes per day is my recommendation.

Infinity is the problem with god. Didn’t have a beginning? How the fuck did it ever get here? And what was it doing for an eternity in the past by itself? Sounds like bullshit to me. God must have had friends or siblings.




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I spend no time on it. I live my life.
 
Here's another couple of things to ponder:

If you plot the equation y = 1/x where x goes from 1 to infinity, and you rotate that about the x axis, you get an object that looks like
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This object has the mind-blowing property that while its surface area is infinite, its volume is finite (it's pi cubic whatevers).

And speaking of pi, it is an irrational number. An irrational number is a number that cannot be exactly represented by a fraction consisting of two integers. Think about that - you have an infinite number of possible numerators, and an infinite number of possible denominators to chose from, and yet there is no combination which yields pi. And, it gets better - there are an infinite number of irrational numbers!
 
smurfco said:
I mean two parallel lines is easy to imagine and so is two parallel planes, think of two sheets of paper with some space between them, boom, parallel planes. So imagining from one dimensional to two dimensional is easy. But what about parallel three dimensional space? It's kind of hard to imagine. You see what I mean?
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Time is like a 4th dimension ( and space and time are fundamentally the same thing)

So one cube exists now, and a different cube exists in that spot tomorrow.

Bam. Parallel 3 dimensional space analogy
 
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