Quotes About Dimensions

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.

String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.

Keynes's contribution was not just to advocate spending government money in the middle of a recession. Every government had done that going back to the days of the Irish potato famine. What he gave to us was a way of thinking about the magnitude and the dimensions and so forth.

All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

All the gold in the world would fit in a cube roughly twenty meters on each side.

Ludwig Schlafi (1814-1895) proved that there are six regular four-dimensional polytopes (generalisations of polyhedra): the 5-cell made of tetrahedra, the 8-cell or tesseract made of cubes, the 16-cell made of tetrahedra, the 24-cell made of octahedra, the 120-cell made of dodecahedra, and the 600-cell made of tetrahedra.

The rhombic dodecahedron is a three-dimensional shadow of the four-dimensional tesseract analogous to the hexagon as a two-dimensional shadow of the cube.

Schlafi also proved that in five or more dimensions the only regular polytopes are the simplex, or generalized tetrahedron, the hypercube, or generalized cube, and the orthoplex, or generalized octahedron.

Twelve is the number which fits around one in three dimensions in the same way that six fits around one in two dimensions. The New Testament is a story of a teacher surrounded by twelve disciples.

My eyes don't quite glaze over when he starts talking about eleven-dimensional reality.

Of the two alternatives - a curved manifold in a Euclidean space of ten dimensions or a manifold with non-Euclidean geometry and no extra dimensions - which is right? I would rather not attempt a direct answer, because I fear I should get lost in a fog of metaphysics. But I may say at once that I do not take the ten dimensions seriously; whereas I take the non-Euclidean geometry of the world very seriously, and I do not regard it as a thing which needs explaining away.

Un rêve qui ne change pas les dimensions du monde est-il vraiment un rêve ?

An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.

One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days.

La fe es el conocimiento psicológico de que el bien despliega una fuerza que opera constantemente en todas las dimensiones. Nuestros intentos de dirigirla no hacen más que interferir en ella.

And outside the window was like a map, except it was in 3 dimensions and it was life-size because it was the thing it was a map of.