The 4th Dimension (with Sonic the Hedgehog)

The 4th dimension is time, but how do we understand it?

Imagine you are a creature of the first dimension, where you can only look left and right. Ok, that’s a horrible example. Imagine that you are Mickey the Mouse on a piece of paper.

Mickey can go right, left, and jump up, but he can’t see you. Ok, my picture sucks, imagine Sonic! Or Mario! On the Super Nintendo! (or Sega Genesis, whatever). They never look at the player, as for him the third dimension does not exist. We can see him, but he can’t see us! He only sees his digital world!

Now, imagine that we introduce an apple into his world (Let#s change Mario to Sonic, since I’m not the biggest fan of Mario, probably because I’ve never owned a nintendo console in my life, whom knows...)

If Sonic the Hedgehog had a camera that took ten photos a second, and it took one second for the apple to traverse through the screen, Sonic would see only minuscule slices of the apple. He would look at the photos that he developed from his camera and basically see a a small line that basically starts growing and shrinking again, and . From the photos in front of him, he would have no idea what the actual shape of the object is. He would just see lignes.


I’d like to clarify that someone of the 4th dimension can not see his own life, but can see all of the life of the people of the 3rd dimension.

Imagine that the apple represents your life. The apple goes through time while we see each section of the apple. We will never see the apple as a whole (We will never see our lives as a whole). We live our life from one moment to the next. Imagine if we could see our lives (The whole apple!) in it’s entirety. We would see our birth and our death and all the moments in between! This is what 4th dimensional beings see, this is what god could be. But if we can see everything, are we still free? Are we still free to choose our own destiny?

Yes, because with the 5th dimension, we see that each action we take creates an alternate branch or reality.

Creatures of the 5th dimension can see all possibilities of their life. I would love to tell you more, but I don’t know anything else really, apart that there are 13 dimensions (Under M Theory?). Don’t worry, I’ll make a part 2! (Maybe!)