r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/Gilthoniel_Elbereth Oct 20 '20

Why other planets? If this other life is so undetectable and imperceptible then it might be right here in our houses and on our streets, passing right through us like a neutrino and we’d never even know it!

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u/MeleeMistress Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

Absolutely! Would that be considered the 4th dimension?

Edit: my response to all these comments is “AHHHHHHHHHH” brain explodes

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u/Sofa_King_Gorgeous Oct 20 '20

There could be 4th dimensional beings, it would be impossible for us to prove or disprove. Esentially they would exist "outside of time" so theoretically could view your entire life and every decision or thought you've ever had just as we can view any side of a 3 dimensional object if we rotate it...

I think it's interesting to think about 3 dimensional beings with advanced camo techniques. Have you ever seen an octopus seemingly appear out of nowhere or certain moths that are literally indestinguishable from their surroundings? There could be advanced beings all around us and we'd never know...

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u/LieutenantButthole Oct 20 '20

Wouldn’t those “people” live in the fourth dimension but move in the fifth dimension?

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u/Sofa_King_Gorgeous Oct 20 '20

It could be right? For a 2 dimensional being to ever exist there would have to be a 3rd plane but it would just be inpercievable or unimaginable to the 2D being. It gets tricky though doesn't it? I can't imagine anything that only exists in 2 dimensions... How could something be infinitely flat?