| Game_boy said: The fourth dimension doesn't have to be time. It could be probability or, like the Playstation 3 uses its GPU for, chicken nuggets. |
Ok, sure it doesn't have to be time...but in no way could it be probability or chicken nuggets. Neither of those two things can contain the 3 spacial dimensions.
Basically in order for something to be a new dimension it needs to be able to contain every X, Y, Z at any given point along its axis. So for example, at any given point in time there exists every point in space. So as a result any location is not accurately defined by just X, Y, Z but also requires T.
I can illustrate this by saying "Meet me in Central Park NY City, at the yellow bench just inside the southeast entrance." which is an X, Y, Z coordinate. To which you would probably reply "When?" which is your way of asking for the T coordinate. Your question is valid because at every point in time there exists the space that is currently occupied by Central Park. So I might answer your question with "Tomorrow at noon". In any case all of this information gives you the exact location in space-time we are to meet which is defined by the coordinate quadruplet (X, Y, Z, T).
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