One problem I think is that our spacetime is actually already a three space, one time metric while the Cs talk about a 4th non-Kaluza Klein space. For a Lethbridge interpretation, it actually makes more sense to have the visualized pentagrams be a visualization for 4th density and have the appeared triangles of fire be an observation in 3rd density. You would effectively be turning a 4-dim all space metric into a 3,1 metric where the S1 is time for third density. I also wonder if your map turning a pentagon into two triangles via mapping a vertex to an edge point could also map a 5-vertex 4-dim 5-cell to the 4-vertex 3-dim tetrahedron via mapping a vertex to a cell point thus relating to the clue about what a tetrahedron in 3D is in 4D. R4 is also homeomorphic to R3xR1 right off the bat so going spherical for your map with S1 (cylinder) before S3 (torus) is kind of just turning R1 to S1. There's no problems with a discrete spacetime. Models like Loop Quantum Gravity and Feynman Checkerboards do that already.If we identify all points A in R4 with A + u for some fixed point u in R4, then we get a space which is homeomorphic (for all intents and purposes exactly the same) to R3 x S1. This is a product space, and is exactly like R3 with an additional Kaluza-Klein dimension. What I don't like about this space is that there seems to be a preferred direction.
If we suppose that the term "density" refers to ether density, and that the perceived structure of space comes about as a result of the interactions of ether particles (i.e. space looks the way it does because of the way light travels through it,) and if the set of ether particles is discrete then I think maybe the Kaluza-Klein stuff makes more sense. But I think this then means that space is discrete, which maybe has more problems.
A few years ago there was a discussion on the Electric Universe forum where they were talking about space as being a fluid. They said that if you look closely enough at a fluid it no longer looks continuous. I gathered that the idea was that quantum effects start to appear when you look at scales where space no longer appears continuous. This fits with in with the idea of discrete space.
Anyway here's another picture,
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If we have a pantagon in R4 arranged in a specific way, then under a specific map from R4 to R3 x S1, one of the points gets mapped to some point on the opposite edge. I don't know if what Lethbridge found was that pentagons in 3D are just one triangle in 4D or if they are two.
A couple of people here hinted that it would be nice if this was simpler. I once said to Tony that I wished triality (a math concept used for physics) was easier to understand and he replied that he wished it was easier to understand also. This is kind of an area where the more time you put into understanding it, the harder things get to understand (you previously would just conveniently skip over those hard parts). I'm going to use Tony to make this as simple as I can. At the level I understand it, it actually isn't as difficult as it often sounds.
Last but not least, cell 24, with 24 octahedral faces. This is a citizen of the 4th dimension with no analogue in the lower dimensions:
The latest session (Session 4 July 2020) contained this fun snippet,
This stuff relates to something I've been thinking about recently. Suppose the ether is made up of particles which are more "fundamental" than space. I.e. Space is an illusion created by the way these particles communicate with each other. The thinking is that these particles are ether particles and they communicate using light.
@John G these are like space vertices, communicating with each other like a cellular automata.
Now suppose that the number of particles which a single particle can communicate with directly is equal for all particles. Then if we map these particles into 3 dimensional space (R^3), such that "close" particles are close in 3D space under the map, then maybe if we draw in the edges (light paths), the edges pass through the vertices of a platonic solid whose center is at the particle.
I'm not explaining this very well. Here's a picture,
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Here's 3rd density, The black lines are the axes of R^3, the red points are the images of the ether particles under the map to R^3, and the blue lines are the octahedron (which is a platonic solid) formed by particles closest to the particle in the center.
Here's another picture,
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This is what I think 4th density might be like. There are 4 black axes, which give us something like 4 dimensional space (R^4), the red points are the ether particles and the blue lines form a cube (another platonic solid) of "close" particles. So the way light moves in 4th density gives space the structure of R^4 with some funny geometry.
So if this is right and a pentagon in 3rd density is a triangle in 4th density, then there must be some map which takes pentagons to triangles or something, I dunno. This is as far as I've gotten.
So what about 4D? Do they make works of art that have 4 dimensions that are represented in 3 dimensions?
One problem I think is that our spacetime is actually already a three space, one time metric while the Cs talk about a 4th non-Kaluza Klein space. For a Lethbridge interpretation, it actually makes more sense to have the visualized pentagrams be a visualization for 4th density and have the appeared triangles of fire be an observation in 3rd density.
(Gaby) I think it was pentagons that he drew in 3rd density, and that was triangles in 4th density.
There's no problems with a discrete spacetime. Models like Loop Quantum Gravity and Feynman Checkerboards do that already.
A couple of people here hinted that it would be nice if this was simpler. I once said to Tony that I wished triality (a math concept used for physics) was easier to understand and he replied that he wished it was easier to understand also. This is kind of an area where the more time you put into understanding it, the harder things get to understand (you previously would just conveniently skip over those hard parts). I'm going to use Tony to make this as simple as I can. At the level I understand it, it actually isn't as difficult as it often sounds.
For this link Tony got mentioned for the 24-cell which is a 4-dim shape. One simple way to picture a 24-cell is to start with how you can picture the 3-dim cuboctahedron using 2-dim shapes. The cuboctahedron is simply starting with a 2-dim hexagon and adding above it and below it, 3-dim equilateral triangles. This gives you 6+3+3=12 vertices in 3D. Now start with the 3D cuboctahedron and add above and below it in the 4th dimension, the 3D six vertex octahedron (diamond shaped thing). This gives you 12+6+6=24 vertices in 4D (the 24-cell).
The cuboctahedron inside the 24-cell represents Ark's conformal gravity. It's the hexagon the Cs talk about. The actual hexagon would connect a vertex on 6 different axes: XYZTzt. The cuboctahedron representation though is 3D so it sticks the 6 dimensions as endpoints of 3D axes (XY ZT zt). A point like XT would be a vertex of the cuboctahedron (negative one on the XY axis, positive one on the ZT axis). The zt axis would be curled up Kaluza-Klein dimensions added to the normal XYZT ones. The other not mentioned yet axis (xy) would add in the two octahedrons to get the 24-cell and for Tony relates to positive and negative charges of the non-gravity forces.
Now let's switch away from geometry to information bits since information is fundamental. We have 8 bits (XYZTxyzt) where say the XT boost of Ark's conformal gravity would have the X and T bits as ones and the rest as zeros. XY would represent a rotation in the XY plane. XZ and YZ would be rotations for the other two planes. XT, YT, and ZT (boosts) as one bits would be for constant velocity movements. Xz, Yz, Zz, Tz (translations) get related to the cosmological constant that expands the universe. Xt, Yt, Zt, Tt as one-bits are special conformal transformations that can relate to complex number shortcuts through spacetime (thus making our 8-bit information an octagonal complexigram).
Thank you Archaea for the link you provided: platonic. Seeing the figures helped to better materialize the words that you want to represent those figures. It really is a visualization exercise to look closely at those geometric figures. It's like making a new "space" in your mind.
It requires a new way of making movements in the mind. I remember the year 2013, when I entered art school (one year only), I chose sculpture. At first it was difficult for me to express the three dimensions of space (nowadays, it is still difficult to understand 3D, it is a work in progress) in sculpture you work with volume in space. It was the first time that I was aware of the 3D. I realized that in formal education, we are not taught to visualize these 3D correctly.
In secondary school you don't go into geometry in depth. Just a little technical drawing, with the beloved projections, but it's flat geometry practically. I think this thread is fundamental to "stretch" the mind. I follow the thread closely, I learn with you.
Looking at the images you put here, the vertices and axes, tell me, do you think there is a relationship between the geometry we see here and how we interpret the geometry of the atomic arrangements in the elements and other chemical arrangements? Maybe we can't fully understand 4th density geometry if we don't observe that 4th density is half ethereal and half physical. In that sense the changes in the geometry of an element or chemical link changes the properties of the same making it either more physical or more ethereal.
If density is 'dense' then additional point is in bonduary to be more dense. Number of geometry point is secondary.
This thread is way above my head, but I had a thought about art today. When you draw, you're representing a 3D object on a 2D surface. But you can also sculpt, which is making a 3D object in 3D.
Then you can use a computer program to model a 3D object. But that is still 2D, because it's on a screen and you can only see it from one angle. But if you animate it, you're sort of virtualizing the third dimension across time within the program.
So what about 4D? Do they make works of art that have 4 dimensions that are represented in 3 dimensions? Can you take a 3D program and model a 4D object? You'd need another dimension, right? I guess it has to be your mind that adds the extra one? I'm thinking about the book Consciousness: Anatomy of the Soul.
If you could take all of the time slices of a hypercube animation and put them together and somehow extract them into "hyperspace" or the 4th dimension, would you see it in your mind's eye as a real hypercube?
They said it's an added spatial reference to visualize inward and outward at the same time not a Kaluza-Klein dimension.Did the C's say that 4th density was like a Kaluza-Klein dimension or that it wasn't? I remember them saying that there is no difference, but I can't find it now.
I think they mean an S3xS1 spheritorus where one can sort of sit on top of an S3 sphere and see around via the S1 to the inside of that same sphere.Q: (A) I have another question. In a session from April, you
made the following comment: 'four dimensional, fourth
density, see?' So you related four dimensions to fourth
density. I don't know a mathematical representation of
density. I know how to represent four dimensions. This was
the first time that you related dimension to density. Is there
really a relation?
A: Yes, because 4th density is experienced in 4th
dimensional reality.
Q: (A) Speaking now about 4 dimensional reality, is it four
dimensional reality of the Kaluza-Klein type?
A: Visual spectrum.
Q: (A) Does that mean that the fourth dimension is NOT
related to the fifth dimension of the Kaluza-Klein theory?
A: Yes.
Q: (A) Yes it is related?
A: No, yes it is not. There is a flaw in these theories, relating
to prism. What does this tell you?
Q: (A) To prism?! Visual spectrum? I don't know what it
tells me. I never came across any relation to prism. But,
what is this 4th dimension? Is it an extra dimension beyond
the three space dimensions, or is it a time dimension?
A: Not "time," re: Einstein. It is an added spatial reference.
The term "dimension" is used simply to access the popular
reference, relating to three dimensions. The added
"dimension" allows one to visualize outwardly and inwardly
simultaneously.
Q: (A) When you talk about this 4th dimension, what is the
closest thing in currently understood physics that
corresponds to this term? I cannot find anything that
corresponds. It is not in relativity theory, it is not in Einstein,
it is not in Kaluza-Klein...
A: Exactly, because it has not been hypothesized.
Is there somewhere where I can read about what Lethbridge actually wrote
You can project a 4-vertex 3D tetrahedron into its 3-vertex 2D triangle base. Similarly you can project a 5-vertex 4D 5-cell into its 4-vertex 3D tetrahedron base. Course maybe it has more to do with the 5-pointed star pentagram being a pentagon inwardly and triangles outwardly as in what the extra 4th dimension lets you view at the same time?Quote from SHotW :
In 1957, Lethbridge left Cambridge in disgust at the narrow-minded attitudes of the scholars there. He moved into Hole House, an old Tudor mansion on the south coast of Devon. Next door to him lived a little old white-haired lady who assured Lethbridge that she could put spells on people who annoyed her and that she was able to travel out of her body at night and wander around the district. She explained that if she wanted to discourage unwanted visitors, she had only to visualize a five-pointed star in the path of the individual and they would stay away. Lethbridge, of course, was skeptical.
But, being an experimenter, Lethbridge was trying the visualization one evening while lying in bed. That night, his wife awakened with the feeling that somebody else was in the room. She could see a faint glow of light at the foot of the bed, which slowly faded. The next day the old lady came to see them and told them that she had come to “visit” them the previous night and had found the bed surrounded by triangles of fire.
Leaving aside whether or not we can prove this story to be anything more than a subjective experience, there are two important points we would like to make. The first one is that somehow, this practice of “visualizing pentagrams” seems to have a causal relationship to the appearance of the old woman in Lethbridge’s bedroom. It was almost as though the practice “attracted” the visitor, possibly even inspiring the wish or compulsion to visit. The second is that the visualized pentagrams appeared as triangles of fire. Theories of how hyperdimensional objects might appear in fourth dimensional space-time, or how four dimensional objects might appear in three dimensional space time, in mathematical terms, lends a modicum of credibility to this story. If the old woman had seen fiery pentagrams, we would not take such notice of the event. That a pentagon in our world might appear as a triangle in another realm suggests something very mysterious here. I am also intrigued by the possible relationship to the differences of these hyper-dimensional solids and the difference between the perspectives of the “triangle people” and the “circle people”.
It's a math property that lets the spacetime (vector) and number of spin components for matter and antimatter (spinor) to be equal in 8 dimensions.What's triality?
Tony is like Ark up through conformal gravity but Tony just cited someone else for the bimetric 4-vector part so it's more like they are both bimetric gravity researchers in a more general sense. They also both in general seem like ER=EPR-like objective collapse researchers. I don't think either is upsetting the standard model too much; they are mostly unconventional for gravity.This is an interesting direction, it's completely different to what I'm thinking.