(August 10, 2010 at 4:54 pm)ABierman1986 Wrote: I have read papers theorizing gravity as a manifestation of a higher spatial dimension, but I'd like to hear responses to this. Since increased mass implies increased gravitational effects, and gravity may be associated with higher spatial dimension is mass an indicator of the effects that 4th dimensional motion has on our perception? (I know, the logic here is very faulty, but its the line of thinking I went through to try and disprove) And could the relative movement of two bodies in this higher dimension have the consequences of relativistic effects? I know this is borderline philosophical, but I'd like to hear theoretical contradictions to this idea as I'm not as well versed in this as I'd like to be.
Are you saying that light in ALL cases is affected by mass/bodies along the 4th dimension? Or only in some cases thus resulting in the observable non-constant speed of light?
Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?
"A man who keeps one eye on the past is blind in one eye. A man who ignores the past is blind in both."
