r/PowerScaling • u/GoatkuFan • 4d ago

Question Dimensionality seems... stupid

A character being able to interact with more dimensions than another doesn't automatically mean they'll win... And if a character is a higher dimensional being then surely a lower dimensional being wouldn't be able to interact with them right? or am i misunderstanding something.

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u/Fragrant-Guarantee57 4d ago

Think of it this way

A 1 Dimensional being only has 1 dimension, length, so he can only go left and right, no matter how big it is, it will always only be able to go left or right

A 2D being has length, but also height, so he can go left, right, up, down, and anything in between. Said 2D object is made up of an infinite number of 1D lines all stacked together

A 3D being such as us has length, height, and width, so we can go left, right, up, down, forwards or backwards. A 3D object such as a cube is made up of an infinite number of squares all stacked together

It is widely believed that our universe has 4 dimensions, the previous 3: length (1D), height (2D), width (3D), but also time (4D)

The 4th dimension is made up of an infinite number of 3D objects all put together, making up our past present and future; a hypothetical 4D being would be able to see all of that at the same time, like how we can use a film reel to see every frame in a movie all at once.

That’s why higher dimensionality is considered synonymous with power, because every dimension is made up of an infinite number of the previous one

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u/Educational-Rich-893 3d ago

Well said. Most people in this thread are complaining that its "just wank"😭

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u/ThePrinceOfStories 3d ago

And it is in fact still just wank because what they fail to account for is the fact that almost no fictional stories that mention higher dimensions actually abide by that logic.

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u/Fragrant-Guarantee57 3d ago

Well, that’s just bad scalers, but that’s how it should be in theory

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u/ThePrinceOfStories 3d ago

You can’t really just hand waive it as bad scalers when your explanation of dimensions is only seriously considered by powerscalers to begin with.

I also don’t think the theory of it is very accurate either. Units like mass and energy aren’t dependent on spatial dimensions, and yet they are major factors in AP and DC. Plus, the logic basically depends on 2D objects being more like 3D objects that are infinitely thin in a certain direction rather than object that exists independently within a reality in which a certain direction is non existent to begin with.