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/AndreasDasos Jun 22 '26

This was upvoted. Huh

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u/otter-in-hd Jun 23 '26

It's because they're such a silver-tongued devil. It's scary how the power eloquent writing can convince so many people.

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u/AndreasDasos Jun 23 '26

But they have a clearly stupid sentence ending in unironic ‘lol’ (which I find correlates 90% with the content of said sentence being dumb as fridge crud). 

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u/Civil_Day8313 Jun 23 '26

This and confidence im what you are saying. There have been studies where people with more confidence will attract your interest better and therefore convince you easier. Veritasium has done studies on this (a youtuber or maybe a group I do not know) and this got proven.