Shadows of 4-Dimensional beings.

Hello folks! long long time no see, I hope you all are safe and sound. Here is my first article of 2024. Interesting title isn't it? Why wait, let's dive into it.

Imagine a scenario in which there is no life and matter in the universe. This would mean there are no stars, or galaxies, and therefore no light or mass and only left with dark matter. In this situation, would time exist? My answer is no. Time exists only if there is an observation of change. Without change, there can be no time. From the most widely accepted theory, time was created after the big bang. The idea behind the theory is that all the energy that makes up the universe was squeezed into an incredibly small space, much smaller than an atom. Then, this hot and dense space expands at a rapid rate, and time is created.

Following the Big Bang, a series of events occurred that eventually led to the formation of Earth, a planet with life. Time is fabricated into every living being here on earth. Every being has its lifetime. But everything on this planet, either with life or without life is bound to 24 hours, to be precise 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds is one full day on Earth. Did you know it takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun? This makes a day on Venus longer than a year on Earth.

Now let me ask you a question, Can you think of something which is bound to only 2 dimensions in this 3-dimensional world? or in a Layman's fashion something which has zero thickness in this 3 dimensional world. Atoms? No, they have thickness too. Energy? No, it can move in all three dimensions. How about light? No, it also moves in all three dimensions like energy. But there is something that moves in only two dimensions and it exists only because of light. Yes, there you go Shadows. They move only in 2 dimensions. If shadows of a 3-dimensional world make the 2-dimensional world. Then what makes the shadow of a 4-dimensional world? Guessing a 3-dimensional world, Interesting isn't it? If your shadow is in a 2-dimensional world, are you in a 3-dimensional world? Then the question is are we the shadows of us in a 4-dimensional world? There comes the question, What is the 4th dimension? I think the answer to that is Time.

Let me convince you how time could act like a dimension. Consider an example (below picture) in a "2-D world". One person is being imprisoned because of some crime that they committed in a two-dimensional world. Here the square acts like a prison so there is no way to escape out of the square box. But what if the prisoner can use the third dimension, confused? Let me make it simple. What if the person comes out of the screen (using the 3rd dimension) and then goes back into the screen (to the 2-D world again) to a place outside of the square box? escaped, didn't he? but it is never possible because a 2-D being can never be able to access the 3rd dimension. From the perspective of 2-D beings, it is like disappearing at one place and reappearing at another place. It is like a supernatural phenomenon for them.

Now, Let's do the same exercise in a 3-D world. In a 3-D world Cube or in simple terms, a closed room acts like a prison. So we are restricting the prisoner in all three dimensions? Then comes the question, can he escape? There is no chance, the prisoner is confined to that room unless someone opens the door or he gets creative and digs a hole to the outside. What if I say they can escape only if they can travel past in time where the prisoner is free or to the future in time when he is released from prison? Doesn't it feel supernatural? Here the prisoner is travelling through time which is a 4th dimension, similar to the above example about a person in 2 dimensional space using the 3rd dimension to escape. Here the 3 dimensional person used time as a 4th dimension to escape. I hope I convinced you that time acts like a fourth dimension. But in reality, this cannot happen because we all are 3-dimensional beings.

Let's go back to our original discussion on shadows. If shadows of a 3-dimensional world make the 2-dimensional world. Then I believe we (3-dimensional beings) are the shadows of us in the 4-dimension.The question is if light in 3-D makes a shadow in 2-D what is making 3-D shadows in 4-D ? It can be some undiscovered energy. Who knows what secrets this universe is still holding? Something to think about :)

Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed it.