(January 31, 2018 at 1:21 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 31, 2018 at 1:18 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Except it's not the same as trying to comprehend a different dimension. I can comprehend a fourth dimension just fine, (and appreciate it as logically possible) it's the visualizing part that is impossible.
The Trinity, on the other hand, I can't even conceive of as logically possible. If A, B, and C are each D, then A = B = C = D, but per Trinity doctrine, A and B and C are not equal to each other, even though they are each equal to D. Seems like it's clearly violating an axiom or two.
Really? That's interesting. I certainly can't comprehend a different dimension at all.
It's actually not that hard. Just as a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, a four-dimensional object will cast a three-dimensional one.
This video is quite long, but much of it is just presentation as it's a lecture given at the Royal Institution, and the speaker is very engaging.
Now, this is the sort of thing that is actually meant by the usual throwaway buzzwords like 'dimensions' (and the other bastardised term 'energy'). Appealing to real scientific concepts to impart layers of mystery to folktales only creates more of the very questions it's meant to deflect.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
