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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 2093792" data-attributes="member: 16221">This is how I set it up (mostly because the following makes sense to me).  In the following method of describing reality, there are functional differences between it and the ring cosmology, and it has benefits such as describing the relative difficulty between moving from here to various different theres.  It also describes in more detail the degree of seperation between two locations, and also details certain powers that certain beings would possess as a matter of hand.Assumption #1: Objects of n-dimensions must "move" through (n+1)-dimensions.Example: A 2-d object, such as a cartoon character on the TV, exists as a series of still frames.  When you place these still frames one after another, in the 3rd dimension, you get animation. 2d objects move in 3d.Example 2: We are 3d objects.  It has been postulated (by Einstine) that time is just another space, and we move through the 4th dimension.So, to extend this analogy...If you were suddenly made into a 4d object, what would you be moving in?  Well, you'd be moving in the 5th dimension (by assumption #1).  But what is the 5th dimension?  Well, since 4d is time, 5d must represent a change in time... thus I present that the 5th dimension is the set of all possible timelines... all possible "What-Ifs".  As you exist in 4d, your actions change events in time, causing timeline jumbles.Now, if you were a 5d object, as described above, what would you be moving in?  You'd be moving in the 6th dimension (by assumption #1).  The 6th dimension must represent a change in times (plural).  Thus, I would now suggest that the 6th dimension is the set of all possible rule-sets.  In that while the 5th dimension encompasses everything that is possible to happen, the 6th dimension encompassing things that are completely impossible to happen here.  This is kinda like a larger set of what-ifs, but instead of "What If Hitler was never born" you can have things like "What if gravity repelled instead of attracted?" or "What if magic worked, and it worked like <this>?"Going higher in dimensions becomes exceedingly more difficult.  Remember that any given dimension must contain an infinite number of n-1 dimensions within it.  (3d contains an infinite number of 2d planes, 4d contains an infinite number of 3d moments, 5d contains an infinite number of 4d timelines, 6d contains an infinite number of 5d possibility-sets...)  If you have any thoughts on how a 6d object could "move"... let me know.Now, any higher-dimensional being has certain advantages over any lower-dimensional being.  Let me begin with our advantages over 2d.From our higher vantage point, we can see all of the 2d world in a single glance.  While a 2d being would only be able to see things in terms of straight lines (just as we can only see things in terms of 2d planes, though we can extrapolate into 3d in our heads) we can see them.  We can see past any barriers that may block a 2d person's view.  We can see inside a 2d person, all their inner organs, which only work in 2d.  Likewise, we can touch any object from outside the 2d person's "universe".  We could take a sword and poke it through a 2d person's heart and that 2d person would be able to do NOTHING about it.  There is no defense.  We don't even have to be visible to the 2d person to do this.  We are outside.Likewise, we can see the past and future of a 2d person's life in a single glance (if we lay out a filmstrip on a table, for example).  Assuming there are laws of physics in the 2d world, we can touch a frame near the beginning of the strip, alter something, and watch as all the future strips are effected in some interesting manner.  We can tweak and weave and do all kinds of things, all sight unseen.  Kinda like... gods.Now anything we can do to a 2d creature, or a 2d plane, a 4d creature could do to us and our universe.  And a 5d creature could do likewise to a 4d.... and a 6d to a 5d, and so on forever (I don't believe there is an end to the dimensional progression, though it does become nearly impossible to imagine after a certain point).</blockquote>

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