4-dimensional space-time and 4-dimensional space
As written in the book 2013: Ark of Photon (Light?) published in 2002 with Takehiko Sunako, a gauge theory researcher, a wave of spirituality movement came to the West as a counter-movement to the overly rigid modern rationalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In France, Eliphas Lévy revived magic through the study and practice of Kabbalah and alchemy. In England, the home of psychical research, MacGregor Mathers founded the secret society, Golden Dawn, to revive a Kabbalistic worldview. In the U.S., Madame Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society, and from this trend, the leading mystical thinkers of the 20th century emerged, such as Steiner and Krishnamurti. Of course, there were also many groups not to admire, such as the Thule Society (a German organization that became the mother of the Nazis). Still, at any rate, for better or worse, the period from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century was one of the extraordinary growth periods of the spirituality movement worldwide.
In parallel with these trends, a new stream of thought emerged. It was a pioneering new science that became popular in the 1980s, which sought to approach the human spiritual world from a scientific perspective to see if it could somehow be integrated with modern science. This movement was called the four-dimensional thought (hyperspace philosophy), and those who were mainly active were Edwin Abbott, Charles Howard Hinton (England), C. Bragdon (USA), and P. D. Ouspensky (Russia). The four-dimensional philosophy (hyperspace philosophy) sought to find a home for the human soul in the fourth dimension. It was an attempt to mathematically and scientifically explore a spiritual world that had been accessible only by religion and mysticism. This ideological movement sparked a worldwide “4-D boom” and has influenced the general public and art movements such as Cubism and the Russian Avant-Garde, literary figures such as Dostoevsky and Poe, and philosophers such as philosophers as Bergson. The public enthusiasm for the “4th Dimension” was so extraordinary that some major publishers offered bounties for papers on the subject.
However, the arrival of one great genius changed the course of thoughts from the enthusiastic exploration of the fourth dimension. That’s right. That was Einstein, whom you all know very well. He defined the fourth dimension as time, not space, and proposed the concept of 4-dimensional “space-time” in his special theory of relativity. This idea caused a sensation in physics at the time, and its aftermath spread quickly to the general public. As a result, Einstein’s concept of space-time blew away the claims of 4D thinkers that ‘the abode of human spirituality was the 4D space.’ Afterward, only the strange and seemingly incomprehensible discourse that ‘the fourth dimension is time’ became ruling over the world of modernism. Hmmm. The world seems indeed made up of three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. In this sense, Einstein was the central theoretical figure who led modern materialism to contemporary[1] [2] [3] [4] materialism.
Now, here is the problem:
Why did people choose 4-dimensional space-time instead of 4-dimensional space in that era of the 20th century?
From Noosology’s point of view, we can see a clever trap in the unconscious structure in this unconscious transition that humanity experienced in the early 20th century. I will leave the explanation of the trap for later, but first, let’s focus on the difference between “4-dimensional space” and “4-dimensional space-time[5] [6] ” from the perspective of physics. Perhaps, you will gradually begin to see the Noosology scheme.
First of all, when we speak of a 4-dimensional world, there are two different kinds of 4-dimensional worlds: One is 4-dimensional space-time[1] [2] (called Minkowski space), and the other is 4-dimensional space (called Euclidean space). 4-dimensional space-time[3] [4] consists of three dimensions of space and one dimension of time in relativity theory, while 4-dimensional space is purely space with four dimensions.
As noted in the footnote section of 2013: The Day God Sees God, Advanced Edition, the difference between 4-dimensional Euclidean space and 4-dimensional Minkowski space-time[5] [6] can be expressed mathematically in one word: the difference is the sign in 4-dimensional measurement. You can regard measurement simply as a standard of scaling that determines how to measure length. For example, the measurement of a two-dimensional Euclidean space is given by the following Pythagorean theorem expression (actually, the measurement is represented by a matrix equation, but we will skip the exact mathematical explanation here)
Δs^2 = Δx^2 + Δy^2 (Δ means infinitesimal)
Similarly, the measurement in 3-dimensional Euclidean space is
Δs^2 = Δx^2 + Δy^2 + Δz^2
The measurement in 4-dimensional Euclidean space is
Δs^2 = Δx^2 + Δy^2 + Δz^2 + Δw^2
As you see, we are simply increasing the dimension.
In contrast, the measurement for a four-dimensional spacetime (Minkowski spacetime) is
Δs^2 = Δx^2 + Δy^2 + Δz^2 – c^2・Δt^2
Now, you can see that the sign of the time term in the fourth dimension appears as “- (negative).”
In short, the directionality of the basis of the fourth dimension is in reverse between 4-dimensional space and 4-dimensional spacetime.
Noosology is a spatial philosophy that uses the catchphrase “inversion of consciousness” to describe in detail what the universe would look like in a world where our consciousness is inverted. To describe it in physical terms, the transition from a 4D space-time perception to a 4D spatial perception, as I have mentioned here, serves as the gateway for the inversion of consciousness itself.[1] [2] [3] [4]
–To be continued