Physics Talent

Basics of Spatial thinking

2010-03-07T12:02:00.000-08:00

Perceived by human angle, Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of the boundless four-dimensional continuum known as space-time. We cannot directly experience the fourth dimension as part of space although we are usually driven by it ourselves separately – The time. And by stretching our logical thinking we can even understand transformations which occur in time, we may be able to visualize using our imagination how particular effect can occur in time or what’s really going to happen or what has already happened.
Although we claim to understand these four dimensions, yet, our ability to perceive far extremes is very limited. In fact we call it extreme because it is much beyond our perception, logical thinking, as well as imagination.
Over the centuries obviously, we have invented instruments which go beyond our normal everyday abilities and potentially enhance them to perceive much “out of scope” extents of either space or time. However as we will see later , the nature is such that it may throw new surprises at possibly newer and newer instruments which happen to invented faster and faster as time progress. However the limitation has yet always been inevitable. In fact the latest scientific frontiers predict that it may even be impossible to perceive the extreme dimensions in our regular way of perception. Probably we can understand things in logical, mathematical and imaginative way. However as far as logical and mathematical ways go, there yet are theories which predict ultimate limitation on describing system in its completeness.
Probably , the only way to perceive ultimate reality is in terms of imagination coupled with set of rules, theories ,postulates not only by the way of understanding what they describe but also in terms where such “axioms” fail and in what way. At this point the normal “Human” logic breaks down. This is because we have been habituated to make definitive conclusions based on set of facts. The new model of thinking sounds completely bizarre… We enter into a zone where we cannot clearly describe facts nor we can derive much of concrete conclusions. We lose the track of certain fundamental beliefs, and if our imagination permits can probably transcend the every moment bounded box of stereotypical thought process and float in new surprising realm, which has define actually by nature but kept away from our own “cognitive” process. The God only knows why this is so, if it exists as separate entity from nature defined. Einstein was of the opinion, that even the God if it exists, would not be able to change the rules of the game which was started by doing random acts. However over the period of scientific know how, it seems that the rules by themselves do not follow the standard norm as we may understand and define them.

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2010-02-25T04:37:00.001-08:00

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2009-02-15T10:35:00.000-08:00

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3D Geometric Algebra and Special Relativity
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Classical mechanics
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