Talk:Dimension

Disambiguation required

There is some serious need to distinguish the different meanings of "dimension". The way it is right now the article switches back and forth between many different meanings without making it clear which is which. Either add some sort of note on each instance of the word to clarify which meaning is being used, or separate the article into different articles (or at the very least, different sections), one for each meaning. --186.204.49.142^{talk to me} 01:29, October 29, 2014 (UTC)

Time as the fourth dimension

The First Doctor stated that the "fourth dimension" (as humans understood it) was time. (TV: An Unearthly Child) ^{[disputed statement]}

When did the First Doctor state this? I don't remember this at all. He mentioned him and Susan being "wanderers in the fourth dimension" and cut off from his home planet, but that's basically it, isn't it? -- Tybort (talk page) 20:35, October 30, 2014 (UTC)

You are correct as usual, the Doctor didn't state it.

Susan and Ian have a classroom discussion about dimensions, and Ian says time must be the fourth dimension, and Susan says space is the fifth. Shambala108 ☎ 20:45, October 30, 2014 (UTC)

The prose Spiral Scratch seems to imply there are an infinite number of dimensions.

"Imagine, if you will, a vortex. A really powerful vortex that drags into itself anything that comes into its trajectory. A vortex made up of an infinite number of well, levels for want of a better description. And if they seem to diminish as they get towards the bottom of the vortex, rest assured, it’s an illusion. For this vortex has no bottom. It is, being constructed of chronon energy, and thus temporal in nature, endless. Eternal. Bottomless, topless, middleless. It is neither linear not multifaceted in existence. It is completely unique and is, theoretically, situated at the centre of creation. Of course, in a multiverse that expands exponentially and is unfixed and infinite in nature, a ‘centre’ is a theoretical and practical impossibility For millennia, scholars have tried to fathom the true nature of what they have come to refer to as ‘The Spiral’. They have failed because, of course, they cannot tell whether each time they examine the Spiral they are seeing it exponentially or randomly."

It also distinguises between dimensions and realities.

"It is theorised that creatures live within the confines of the Spiral, creatures that have access to multiple dimensions and realities."

This seems to contradict a bit with the 11 dimensions of the multiverse, but the prose in question refers to the omniverse in total, not any singular multiverse.SpiralMaster ☎ 05:33, March 18, 2015 (UTC)