The Fourth Dimension

When we say that the third dimension is a solid, we are referring to this physical world that we live in. I'm sure most people are aware that we exist in a three-dimensional space; this is a fact within the confines of our human understanding.

What about the fourth dimension? When space is infused with time, then as time begins to move—with each passing minute and second—the physical entities within that space will also begin to experience motion and change. If time were to stop, every matter too will come to a standstill.

Thus, we can observe two facts here:

• Time and space are closely related.
• If all matters were to remain motionless throughout space, time will cease to exist. To put it another way, it is the movement of matters in space that renders meaning to time itself.

This is the concept of the fourth dimension.

Therefore, to a person inside the fourth dimension, this world would seem like a movie in constant edit mode, recording every single object at specific times in specific places, with different events happening at different moments. What this means is, if we could enter into this dimension, we would have transcended the limits of the third. In other words, like a movie director we can choose which time frame to view a person's life, from the time of birth to the time of death.

Imagine if you will the following scenario: when we're at home watching a movie, we can choose to watch it from start to finish or simply skip over the bulk of the story and watch the ending. To the characters inside a movie, time seems to progress slowly as the plot develops, but to the viewer in a different dimensional space, he or she can fast forward and see the whole story in a much shorter time span. By now, I trust that you should have a better grasp on the concept of the fourth dimension.

To summarize, people and objects inside the third dimensional space are constrained and restricted by time; to them, time is passing by the minute and second. But to someone inside the fourth dimension, time is irrelevant and has no meaning; the past and the future exist at the same time, just like a roll of film containing both the beginning and the ending of a show. 

In the medical field, it is not uncommon to hear of near-death experiences in which a person would see his or her whole life replayed before their eyes in a flash. Why did these people have such an experience? One possible explanation is they could have momentarily transited from the third to the fourth dimension, which could have happened at the sub-conscious level, or when their soul left the physical body, an out-of-body experience so to speak. The vivid details of every event in their childhood were recalled in an instant, as if a lifetime had been compressed into just a split second.

We'll have more to say when we look at the fifth dimension.