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That video is incoherent nonsense, especially from the '5th dimension' and onwards, and in no way resembles the modern understanding of dimensions in physics or mathematics. I wouldn't bother watching it except for entertainment.



Care to expand? I'm not sure if it is possible to imagine these dimensions with the "modern understanding of dimensions in physics or mathematics", but it would be nice to at least know why this way is incorrect


One could waste one's entire life trying to correct rubbish attempts at physics on the internet, especially when it's full of non-sequiturs like the video. But as a start, the description of quantum mechanics is nonsense and I'm guessing the narrator got their understanding of it by reading popsci books (I'm trying to avoid a personal attack on the author, but it's hard when they've said a lot of wrong things so very confidently). The dimensionality of a typical QM Hilbert space is infinite, not five. People get wound up wondering what the N^th dimension is, when all dimensionality is, somewhat simplified, is how many numbers you need to describe the position of something.

The top comment on this stack exchange thread has more: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/55824/is-imaginin...


Thanks for setting the record straight. The video looked interesting and coherent for layman like myself (gotta admit though I only watched at first the older version that didn't mention quantum mechanics), but I never cared to check what real physicist made of it. Gotta love physics stack exchange!




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