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Sat 05/01/02 at 11:54
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That right believes it. According to scientist the 4th dimension is meant to be...Time. Does this mean that our ordinary games at home e.g. Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal, Rogue Leader. Are these games the "babies", the "stepping stones" to the next-next Generation of gaming?

But before I get into it let me explain a little something about "4D": If a person existing only in a 2 dim. Universe was to look out upon the horizon of his universe and saw a 3D object passing through the horizon, for our argument we will say a sphere, as the sphere first began to pass through the 2D world it would appear to be only a point or a speck. As the sphere passed through the flat universe the speck would grow into a line that would appear to be growing from nothing, but infact it is only a 3D object passing through a 2D world.

(Still with me?)
Now, move it up a notch. If a 4D object passed through our 3D world it should appear to do the same thing.
When the sphere first started to pass through our 3D world it would appear as a tiny sphere. The object passed through our world the tiny sphere would grow until it reached the middle of the 4th dimension. After that it would shrink back to the tiny sphere and then disappear once the 4th dimension sphere, had passed all the way through our dimension.

So if you look at an object in 4D, in a world of 3D all you would see would be the shadow of it. E.g. if you have a 3D box, the shadow would be a 2D (next level down version of itself). So if you applied this theory to 4D then all that we can possibly see would be the shadow of it because we cannot possibly, imagine what it would look like if we were to stay in a 3D environment.

But I think it is quite possible to have the game elements in 4D (time) while having the Characters in 3d. Although it has been rumoured that we Humans are born into 3.5D. (Hmm)

I would say that the closest we have to 4D would be Animal forest +, but they could be many other games out there using this "4D" idea. Who knows? I personally am in no hurry to move onto the next-next Generation of games, but I would gladly stay in the 3D dimension until my last dying breath.

Now is the time to rejoice with virtual simulators and new 4D games but lets remember the games that had set the standard instead of rushing off and not really appreciating, what we have at the moment. I would like to conclude on a proverb, which I thought of just like 3 minutes ago,

"when everybody else is running, that's the time to walk"

Thx for reading
Sat 05/01/02 at 11:54
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That right believes it. According to scientist the 4th dimension is meant to be...Time. Does this mean that our ordinary games at home e.g. Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal, Rogue Leader. Are these games the "babies", the "stepping stones" to the next-next Generation of gaming?

But before I get into it let me explain a little something about "4D": If a person existing only in a 2 dim. Universe was to look out upon the horizon of his universe and saw a 3D object passing through the horizon, for our argument we will say a sphere, as the sphere first began to pass through the 2D world it would appear to be only a point or a speck. As the sphere passed through the flat universe the speck would grow into a line that would appear to be growing from nothing, but infact it is only a 3D object passing through a 2D world.

(Still with me?)
Now, move it up a notch. If a 4D object passed through our 3D world it should appear to do the same thing.
When the sphere first started to pass through our 3D world it would appear as a tiny sphere. The object passed through our world the tiny sphere would grow until it reached the middle of the 4th dimension. After that it would shrink back to the tiny sphere and then disappear once the 4th dimension sphere, had passed all the way through our dimension.

So if you look at an object in 4D, in a world of 3D all you would see would be the shadow of it. E.g. if you have a 3D box, the shadow would be a 2D (next level down version of itself). So if you applied this theory to 4D then all that we can possibly see would be the shadow of it because we cannot possibly, imagine what it would look like if we were to stay in a 3D environment.

But I think it is quite possible to have the game elements in 4D (time) while having the Characters in 3d. Although it has been rumoured that we Humans are born into 3.5D. (Hmm)

I would say that the closest we have to 4D would be Animal forest +, but they could be many other games out there using this "4D" idea. Who knows? I personally am in no hurry to move onto the next-next Generation of games, but I would gladly stay in the 3D dimension until my last dying breath.

Now is the time to rejoice with virtual simulators and new 4D games but lets remember the games that had set the standard instead of rushing off and not really appreciating, what we have at the moment. I would like to conclude on a proverb, which I thought of just like 3 minutes ago,

"when everybody else is running, that's the time to walk"

Thx for reading
Sat 05/01/02 at 19:54
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Hope SOMEONE reads this!!!!!
Sat 05/01/02 at 19:57
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Sorry, I got confused trying to figure out what 4-D actually is! Is it like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer goes into that strange world???
Sat 05/01/02 at 19:59
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*SMACK*
Sat 05/01/02 at 20:09
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Ouch! I felt that! Is that 4-D???
Sat 05/01/02 at 20:29
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*sigh* anyone else with more valid views?
Sat 05/01/02 at 22:03
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is this post like locked so no one can look at it?
Sat 05/01/02 at 22:31
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I knew that the 4th dimension was time when I was 12, 4 years ago. Pah!
Sat 05/01/02 at 22:32
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Tony, I think the physics of the 4th dimension are completely lost to you...

there is a Temproal Forth Dimension, AND a spacial forth dimension...

If you want, I will recomment you books on superstring and how to visualise the forth dimension.

Sonic
Sat 05/01/02 at 22:34
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"sdomehtongng"
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My Maths teacher told me so it is not a really reliable opinion but I still think the 4th Dimension is time. :-)

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