Hidden In Plain Sight 6 Quotes

“The combined speed of any object's motion through space and its motion through time is always precisely equal to the speed of light.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“If someone was to tell you that the sum of all the numbers was minus one twelfth I suspect you might imagine the person was mildly crazy. Well, this is actually an established mathematical fact: the sum of all the numbers is minus one twelfth (or, in decimals, -0.083).”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“Bertrand Russell once described mathematical beauty in the following words: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“if the Sun disappeared instantaneously, the Earth would continue to orbit the position of the Sun for seven minutes until the bad news reached us in the form of gravitational waves.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“everything travels through spacetime at the speed of light.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“the addition of a fifth dimension has the effect of introducing the electromagnetic field in four-dimensional spacetime.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“the fifth dimension is proposed to be circular and microscopic.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“We assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“Three is a natural result for the number of dimensions. It is natural because it is a number close to one. The closer to one, the better, the more in line with our expectations.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“We can see that the Kolmogorov complexity describes the compressibility of the pattern:”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“By understanding how the same scene can appear different, depending on the viewpoint from which it is perceived, we learn to separate the accidents of viewpoint from the properties of the thing itself. By treating subjectivity objectively, we master it.”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?

“Why are there only three dimensions? It”
― Andrew Thomas, Hidden In Plain Sight 6: Why Three Dimensions?