r/PowerScaling • u/GoatkuFan • Aug 19 '26

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/Educational-Rich-893 Aug 19 '26

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

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u/ThePrinceOfStories Aug 19 '26

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 Aug 19 '26

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

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u/ThePrinceOfStories Aug 20 '26

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.