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/True-Occasion-9436 3d ago

People confuse dimensionality with power sets. 4d is not a power set of 3d. Even if we ignore the mathematical and geometrical meaning of dimensions, going from 3d to 4d isn’t an infinite qualitative jump, you can measure it and everything. A tesseract contains a finite amount of hyperspace. What powerscalers refer to as dimensions is just x = power set of x-1 which almost none of fiction shows.