Wait.......ing

Do you ever think about how much time we spent waiting for something? I did, while waiting. I remember waiting for the day I enter college, waiting to be independent...

I waited in line to get my breakfast this morning, waited in another line to pay for my breakfast. I waited for the light to turn green to cross the road, waited for the masses to get out before entering Maass 100. I waited for the next lecture to finish, waited for the last lecture to end. Then I waited a bit more at the Metro station, waited a little longer to get to my destination.

The wait for sunset didn't seem long over the engagement in the Fifth Dimension, though disrupted by the wearing of my body couldn't wait to receive a little supper. But I waited..waited for the sky to darken, the air to shrink, the moon to rise... I waited for the clock to strike twelve, then pick up some grocery on my way home. I'm waiting at the terminal for bus transfer, sitting down, writing this, and waiting for the last train to come.

The midnight commuters carry a common sober look; their countenance says it all about the day's happening... Their slight lean against the poles of the train, just to buy a little comfort while waiting a few minutes until they get home, and wait for the sunrise to start fresh another day in their lives.

We wait for everything.
Waiting for that day, for that person
perhaps someone to enter our life
perhaps a special someone to love.
While we wait, someone, too, await us
But the wait will be over one day,
At a random place, a random time
As she says,
"What took you so long.."

Theory of the Fifth Dimension- PART II: The Fifth Dimension

The human mind is a complex thing. Different philosophical schools have argued for centuries over the nature of the existence of the mind as a separate identity from the physical brain. I'm not going get into the cyclical debate over that matter (no pun intended), rather, I'm taking a practical approach to establish the theory of a Fifth Dimension of the human mind.

NATURE OF THE 5D

At times we are engaged in some activities, we mentally separate from our physical selves. Those phenomena are common if you were to have any experience in competitive sport, yoga, or solving differential equations etc. Those activities previously described are temporary state of "physical detachment". However, for some people, they live almost completely in worlds they created in their minds. THAT world, is what I call the Fifth Dimension. The fact that time does not stop during the engagement in this "mind-away-from-body" period proves that it is an extension of the fourth dimension (hence Fifth) instead of having its own entity.

As spontaneous as a touch of rain drop on the skin, the transition from 4D world to the 5D is instantaneous. A connection is made to the 5D when the mind is highly engaged in a series of thoughts, in which the physically senses are perceived but not processed.

SOCIAL PHENOMENA

Some people find the 4D world disagreeable. For whatever reason they aren't content with a world that is flawed, filled with imperfections (by these, I mean a 4D world that is different from what they wanted it to be, relative to those standards, the world is imperfect)

Therefore, instead of having to encounter "real" people and do "real" things, they complement their life experiences in the fifth dimension, where they can even form ideal friendship and relationship, and experiences they could not otherwise pertain in the 4D world.

SOURCES OF 5D ENGAGEMENT

As established neuroscience suggests, people's emotions and experiences are much associated with certain types of neurotransmitters released. To live is to experience these emotions, which is ultimately controlled by chemistry; while one feels the adrenaline rush of sighting the finish-line, another experience the same chemistry by obtaining the most powerful weapon in a violence-based video game. Any experience from a virtual reality that results in changes in body chemistry is due to the existence of a fifth dimension.

If I were chatting with a friend on Facebook while someone asks me what I'm doing, I'd say I'm chatting with a friend, EVEN THOUGH, what I'm physically doing is looking at a 2D plane while pressing buttons with my fingers. But, my mind is engaged in the fifth dimension while I receive all the emotions (not that I have emotions..if you know me) and chemistry as if I were to talk to the person in my room. I had to talk to this friend via a virtual space called internet, because I am unable to do so in the 4D world.

ON UNIVERSAL 5D

The highly established fifth dimension bothers can be misleading. Do understand that I'm not saying the 5D is a negative dimension, the 5D gave us the Oscar movies to watch and Pulitzer books to read. But, with the outpour of 21st century technology in "highly-realistic virtual-reality simulators", some people extended their engagement in the fifth dimension just a little too much. What can I say to those people? What can I say to those who watches TV 14 hours a day, those who is "dating" 3 hours on MSN each night, those who live on Facebook (or the internet) and updates status three times every hour in order to get attention, and me, who just spent 30 minutes once in a while typing these useless articles on an insight that he thinks is worthy to share?

What should be said, has been said.
Thanks Voltaire.

Theory of the Fifth Dimension - PART I: Summary of "What is Where, up to now"

This came to me one day when I was having lunch at the Bishop Mountain Hall cafeteria. In enjoying my meal, I lost track of time and did not realize the time that had passed. These thoughts gave rise to the theory of the Fifth Dimension.

DEFINITION

I'll begin with a definition of "dimension": property of space (dictionary.com). Mathematically, there exists a 4-Dimensional world. While modern physics theories have suggested up to 12 dimensions, I'm not getting into that. Five is enough for me.

KNOWN DIMENSIONS

We start with 1D, it's simply a virtual point. Take a point on a Cartesian plane for instance, the point (4,3) is not the same as (3.999999, 3.000001). One could extend this argument that a point is finite, therefore infinitely small change to it entirely changes the property of the point. The "Big Bang" theory gave rise to the concept of compacting infinity into a point in space. Therefore a point is infinitely small or infinitely large, depending on its parameters.

2D is simply a plane, 3D is the dimension of the world we live in; we can mathematically represent any physical object. As an analogy, 3D maps "what is where"; for example, a treasure box with width of 20cm, length 40cm, and height of 50cm, is located at the location (400, 300, -20).

Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity brings 4th Dimension into consideration. The 4th Dimension is somewhat non-trivial, it consists the property of time. One can think of the 4th dimension as the independent variable that corresponds to a 3D representation at that instant. Take the previous example, the 4D addition would be, "The treasure box....on January 8th, 1991.

Now... the fifth.

PROBLEMS WITH THE 4-D

Though the 4D is sufficient to map "What is where at what time, up to now", it did not take in the account of the human mind. I shall introduce the 5th Dimension in PART II