Einstein referred to TIME as the fourth dimension, most people didn’t get him then…he reasoned that it was important as everything in this world is relative.
Today after so many years I disagree with the great man.
As for me it should be the first and if required the last dimension to be followed. Its not that I don’t understand the importance of the x-y-z co-ordinates, but its just that today all that seems so blur. Coming to think of it, you can actually measure and understand, to your surprise and presumed disbelief, everything under the sun, using TIME as a dimension.
Just think of it…you can span your whole life on it ( and see whether it has been worth all the effort or not !!! I hope the answer is yes for you)…you can look at a marvelous building and get awed by the 3-D complexities of it, but at the end of the day you have to remember that even that man-made structure has a life of its own. Right from the time of it getting conceptualized, being transferred to the drafting table and then finally getting its shape on the piece of land where it finally stands. In the end if you see it all wrt to time I’m sure you would be able to understand and appreciate it in a much better way.
Time is that one little thing that would keep the element of variance in your life, it would not let you stop. So whether you do it voluntarily or not, time would plot a graph for you on its axis…the challenge for us is to make sure that we have more peaks than the troughs in the final analysis.
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it isnt that calling time the fourth dimension reduces its importance. Men can't manipulate time, we can manipulate space. So if we ever want to study time, we have to establish 'space' as a constant. Its just that the mysteries of 'space' have kept us so busy since several thousand years and einstein just happened to be the first person to theorize time. Ironically, chronologically time is and must be the fourth dimension.
Hi,
I agree with you about the chronological naming convention adopted and hence the 'constraint' of Time being called the 'fourth' dimension. Actually the purpose of this post was to emphasize on the importance of Time and view it from a philosophical point of view rather than a scientific one,therefore an intentional omission of 'space' in the given analysis though on principle I do agree with the concept of constant space for Time analysis.
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