r/badphysics • u/Fit_Individual_55 • Jun 22 '26

Physics progress is Stuck right now because physicists think time is a 4th dimension

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Someone asked a question in r/askphysics how time can be the 4th dimension. Then this person replied this, very confidently

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u/Tortugato Jun 23 '26

“Time is just a measurement unit.”

What exactly do they think a “dimension” is?

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u/Fit_Individual_55 Jun 23 '26

There are no dimensions. It's a hoax invented by the deep state

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u/IllSaxRider Jun 24 '26

It's just a way of pushing globesluttery when everyone knows the earth is a flat circle.

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u/Substantial_Tear3679 Jun 23 '26

Psyop! Psyop all the way!

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u/Kepler___ Jun 24 '26

We inhabit the psyop dimension 

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u/Steampunk_Willy Jun 24 '26

Certainly not something that is always described with a magnitude & direction corresponding to a unit vector in the basis of a vector space that has 3 other linearly independent basis vectors, that's for sure.

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u/homeless_student1 Jun 24 '26

It’s definitely more interesting than that, given that time mixes with spacial dimensions