Randall's maze 5

Now for another term. You know how I said that physicist and mathematicians put numbers onto our axes? Well this may seem like not that bit of a deal when we are just moving a string around a table, but when theorist make up new math these numbers become very very important, they even get their own name. They are called the metric of a system. If you’ve ever dabbled in relativity you will hear this work a lot, usually preceded by someone’s name. All they means is a specific system of units and measurements that goes along with the coordinate system they are talking about.

Now if I could I would like to take a moment to talk about time. Einstein declared it to be one more dimension and stated that we now had 4 dimensions. How does that fit into all of this? Well it is an extra dimension by not an extra spatial dimension (you know I just learned how to spell spatial…what a weird spelling). But how to picture this? Well…just like we normally would. Imagine yourself as a baby, a 5 year old, a 15 year old, a 20 year old and so forth to your current age. If you string these images together you get your 4-D projection. We are in all honesty 4-D creatures. We grow and change with time.