I’ve heard about this idea a lot, but on the flip side it doesn’t seem to make sense. Us as 3D beings can’t naturally encounter 2D things, just representations of them (drawings etc), but nothing in the real world that has just 2 dimensions. So how could it be possible for there to be 4 (or more) dimensions?
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It’s possible for a 2-dimensional “situation” to exist in real life. Think of the surface of a neutron star or something, where a being wouldn’t have the energy to move up or down, they’d be trapped in just 2 dimensions.
It’s possible for 4 dimensions to exist in real life. We 3-dimensional beings would experience it as things mysteriously “hopping” from one 3-dimensional location to another, or things in different locations connected in some way we can’t perceive. Perhaps quantum entanglement at a distance is evidence of this, I don’t know. The fact that we don’t routinely see things “hopping” from one 3-dimensional location to another means there probably isn’t a 4th dimension, at least at our scale.
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