[PD] OT: Dimensions (WAS: Re: access to pd table from another application)

[András Murányi]

2011/4/5 Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>

> On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, András Murányi wrote:
>
>  i like it! when Matju mentioned 15 dimensions, this one came to my mind:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_GQqUg6Ts
>>
>
> Is this serious ? I don't know much about recent physics, but this doesn't
> sound like the same 10-dimensional system as is being talked about in string
> theory, for example. I mean the dimensions beyond the first four.
>
> Additionally, talking about all possible timelines as being only one extra
> dimension, is something really weird to me. With the usual expectations of
> connectedness and metrics, possible worlds that are similar to each other
> ought to be close to each other in the space of all possibilities, and there
> are lots of things that can vary, so, you need a lot of dimensions to go
> with all those possibilities. Probably billions of billions of... I don't
> know.
>
> But GridFlow's dimensions are a lot more mundane than that. I can have one
> dimension for rows-of-rows and columns-of-columns, that is, groupings of
> rows and columns. That was for the purpose of making mosaïcs. Usually, and
> in that case, time is not a dimension in GridFlow, though it can be, as in
> remap_video.pd and nervous_video.pd.
>

Yeah, i'm really uneducated in these topics but it seems this video is more
sci-fi than science... it is intriguing, nevertheless.
What I heard is that quantum-physics and string theories have not been
matched with each other yet, and to do so, you might need infinite-dimension
spaces indeed (or a brave simplification, in which direction the video is an
attempt).

Time being a dimension is perfectly ok, however - but that's not any news.

Andras
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