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dimension
dimension (dî-mčn´shen, dė-)
noun
Abbr. dim.
1.A measure of spatial extent,
especially width, height, or length.
2.Often dimensions . Extent or
magnitude; scope: a problem of alarming dimensions.
3.Aspect; element: "He's a good
newsman, and he has that extra dimension" (William S. Paley).
4.Mathematics. a. One of the
least number of independent coordinates required to specify uniquely a
point in space or in space and
time. b. The range of
such a coordinate.
5.Physics. A physical property,
such as mass, length, time, or a combination thereof, regarded as a
fundamental measure or as one of a set of fundamental measures of a
physical quantity: Velocity has the dimensions of length divided by
time.
verb, transitive
dimensioned, dimensioning,
dimensions
1.To cut or shape to specified
dimensions.
2.To mark with specified
dimensions.
[Middle English dimensioun,
from Latin dėmęnsio, dėmęnsion-, extent, from dėmęnsus, past
participle of dėmętėrė, to measure out : dis-, dis- + mętėrė, to
measure.]
- dimen´sional adjective
- dimen´sional´ity
(-she-nāl´î-tę) noun
- dimen´sionally adverb
- dimen´sionless adjective
Dimension
Dimension, in geometry, a
property of space. In common experience the world is
three-dimensional. Three measures- breadth, width, and depth- are
needed to define a volume. In mathematics and physics the concept of
dimension is used more abstractly; spaces of four, or even an
infinite
number of dimensions are commonly used. The spaces with many
dimensions that are used in mathematics and physics have no
commonsense meaning, but are very powerful tools that are crucial to
subjects like
quantum physics.
Also, dimension need not always be a whole number. For example,
fractals
are mathematical objects that have fractional dimension.
fourth dimension
fourth dimension (fôrth dî-mčn´shen) noun
Time regarded as a coordinate dimension and required
by relativity theory, along with three spatial dimensions, to specify
completely the location of any event.
dimensions (noun)
quantity: dimension,
dimensions, longitude, length
greatness: dimensions,
magnitude, quantity, degree
size: proportions, dimension,
dimensions, measurement, measurements, measure
metrology: metrology,
dimensions, length, breadth, height, depth, thickness, size
The further limits of our
being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of
existence from the sensible and merely "understandable" world. Name it
the mystical region, or the
supernatural
region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate
in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them
possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we
belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to
the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever
our ideals belong.
William James (1842-1910), U.S.
psychologist, philosopher. _The Varieties of Religious Experience_,
Lecture 20 (1902).
Design
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation
between various things, various elements in the creative
flux.
You can't invent a design. You recognise it, in the fourth dimension.
That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author.
_Phoenix:
The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence_, pt. 4, "Art and Morality" (ed.
by E. McDonald, 1936).
Cartoons
and Drawing
In the final analysis, a
drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient
its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly
the
imaginary lines of projection meet
higher dimensions, the better.
Paul Klee (1879-1940), Swiss
artist. _The Diaries of Paul Klee_ 1898-1918, no. 681 (1957; tr.
1965), entry July 1905.
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The great teacher of
metaphysics,
strangely enough , is Nature...the foetus in the womb duplicates the
entire evolution of life from
amoeba through
fish, etc. But why then do we halt the metaphor at birth? Inasmuch as
we each end in death as individuals, then so probably the entire
course of organic existence ends in a kind of closure that is a return
to the inorganic. But in this
process something
called organic existence has for millions of years clothed itself in
the raiment of Matter and has carried out this elaborate
informational
exchange. Matter has been invaded by a vitality that animates it and
calls it forth to procreate, build cities, write poetry, compose
sonatas. I just cannot believe that it is not the descent into matter
of some kind of higher-dimensional thing.
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We've come to the end of our
road in birthing new models of community. Wouldn't you agree
that when we look aback over the whole history of life as known to us,
it appears to be some kind of strategy for the conquest of
dimensionality? The earliest forms of life were fixed
slimes
of some sort. Then you get very early motility, but not sense
organs, where organisms literally feel their way from one point
of
perception to another. Then comes
sequestering of
light-sensitive pigment upon
the outer membrane, and the notion of a gradient between here and
there appears. Then for a long, long time there's the
coordination of backbones, skeletons, binocular vision and so
forth. Then, with human beings some fundamental boundary is
crossed, ending the conquest of terrestrial space, and beginning the
conquest of time, first through
memory and
strategic triangulation of data out of memory, and then the invention
of epigenetic coding, writing, and electronic
databases.
There's
an ever more deep and thorough spreading out into time. In
this
Eschatonic transition that I'm talking
about, the deployed world of three-dimensional space shrinks to the
point where all points are cotangent. We literally enter
hyperspace,
and it's no longer a metaphorical hyperspace. What we're saying
is, this transition from one dimension of existence to another is the
continuation of a universal program of self-extension and
transcendence that can be traced back to the earliest and most
primitive kind of protoplasm.
-
Terence
McKenna - _The
Evolutionary
Man_
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Terence McKenna:
What it means is that time
will eventually go so fast that the rest of the future - all of it -
will happen in a few seconds. This is similar to the
bubble-like
expansion of space and time at the birth of the universe. There will
be a contraction of space and time at the end that will be similar to
the bursting of a bubble. That's what I think lies at the bottom of
the basin of
attraction that is
pulling us towards itself and that seems to be located in the late
months of
2012.
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bb: How did you choose 2012?
TM: Well that is a complicated story, my dear.
bb: It's too soon. Pick a later date.
TM: Seems too soon to you does it?
bb: Oh yes.
TM: Well when I chose it it
was twice as far away. It's true though, it does feel like we're kind
of
rushing towards it. On the other hand, if you
have an exponential collapse, it can really catch you by surprise. The
burst of the universe must have caught somebody by surprise.
bb: So what's 2013 going to be like?
TM: Well that's a good
question. That's like asking, 'how shall we imagine what we in
principal cannot imagine?' But on the other hand, there are ways to
approach it, and model it. I think what's going on is some kind of
conquest of dimensions. The previous dimension in which you've
been imbedded becomes a unified plane from your new point of view.
Maybe what is happening is that culture is somehow going to
bootstrap
itself into a kind of intellectual
hyperspace. And
then the question is, where is that? Is it enfolded within the eyelash
of a fruit-fly? Can we become as viruses and just drift in the
stratocumulus clouds? I don't know, but it's not my business at this
point to know that. I think we have a lot to go through. I think that
people don't understand. As the Firesign Theater used to say,
'Everything you know is wrong.' But that is a very liberating
understanding, because if everything you know is wrong, then all the
problems you thought were insoluble can be framed differently. And
there's a way to take the world apart and put it back unrecognizably.
We don't really understand what consciousness is at the really deep
levels. With some of the tryptamine
hallucinogens,
you see into possibilities where questions like, 'are you alive?' 'are
you dead?' 'are you you?' seem to have been transcended. I think
people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with
reality,
that we're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and
nobody knows what's out there.
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"When you say "Climb a Tree",
what you mean is: gain a higher-dimensional vantage point on the
landscape of experience. This is what the
psychedelic
does, and what you do with that point of view is entirely up to you."
- Terence McKenna
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