- published: 23 Apr 2016
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In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a space or object is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it. Thus a line has a dimension of one because only one coordinate is needed to specify a point on it (for example, the point at 5 on a number line). A surface such as a plane or the surface of a cylinder or sphere has a dimension of two because two coordinates are needed to specify a point on it (for example, to locate a point on the surface of a sphere you need both its latitude and its longitude). The inside of a cube, a cylinder or a sphere is three-dimensional because three co-ordinates are needed to locate a point within these spaces.
In physical terms, dimension refers to the constituent structure of all space (cf. volume) and its position in time (perceived as a scalar dimension along the t-axis), as well as the spatial constitution of objects within – structures that have correlations with both particle and field conceptions, interact according to relative properties of mass, and which are fundamentally mathematical in description. These or other axes may be referenced to uniquely identify a point or structure in its attitude and relationship to other objects and occurrences. Physical theories that incorporate time, such as general relativity, are said to work in 4-dimensional "spacetime", (defined as a Minkowski space). Modern theories tend to be "higher-dimensional" including quantum field and string theories. The state-space of quantum mechanics is an infinite-dimensional function space.
The "holy" shows your purpose
And you buy it, you buy it?
If it's your faith, is this your fate?
We all fail
We all break
So we fight it back for no reason but ourselves
We fight!
We fight it back!
We'll not abandon ourselves
We were stalled out and empty
On highways cracked and blanked out
And if in someway we were to get out
To walk out, we'd have to
No matter how far or high up
We all fail
We all break
So we fight it back for no reason but ourselves
We fight!
We fight it back!
In the dark it looked like they were sleeping
They looked like how I felt, how cold they were
And who would go to trouble to arrange them like that?
And in my panic, in my grief it struck me.
If it burns too bright then it'll burn too fast
We all fail
So we fight it back for no reason but ourselves
We fight!
We fight it back!