If the 4th dimension is time, does that mean a quarter of the "space" is spread out over time? What does that even mean? Anyone familiar with n-dimensional space able to weigh in?
If the 4th dimension is time, does that mean a quarter of the "space" is spread out over time? What does that even mean? Anyone familiar with n-dimensional space able to weigh in?
When you look at time as the zeroth dimension rather than the fourth, it should be obvious that the fourth dimension is simply another spatial dimension. Think about how a two-dimensional plane is a cross section of a three-dimensional object, and line would be a cross section of a plane, and a (zero-dimensional) point is a cross section of a line. So too can our three-dimensional universe be looked as a cross section of a theoretical four-dimensional existence. A three-dimensional object that moves in the fourth dimension would simply cease to exist in our universe, and a four-dimensional object that moves in the fourth dimension would change which 3D cross section is visible to us.
When you think about the nth dimension as a projection of the n+1th dimension, it begins to make a lot more sense. That doesn’t mean you can necessarily visualize the 4th spatial dimension directly, but you can at least visualize how the 3rd dimension can be a projection of the 4th, just like how we can easily see that the 2nd dimension as a projection of the third.