Do we really live in a three dimensional world? The truth is that human beings can only visualize three dimensions, but does that mean that there are only three? Some people call time the fourth dimension. Funny thing about time, it is often represented by a two dimensional graph. The face of an analog clock is a two dimensional region when it is drawn on a piece of paper. We can show the hands of the clock face pointing to a particular time. So it seems that we can illustrate things that are more than three dimensions in two or three dimensional space. Doesn't this seem a little strange?

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When you think of objects that could be more than three dimensions, such as a cube that is six dimensional you can figure out the math but no one can visualize the cube. But it may turn out some day that the three dimensional space we occupy may be different from the three dimensional space that non living objects occupy. As strange as this sounds a scientist named Vladimir Vernadsky said precisely this. He submitted evidence that he called "the fundamental material-energetic distinction of living matter in the biosphere". He stated that there are different laws for living organisms in the space we occupy. There has not been much advancement in this theory since it was proposed but maybe someday it will be proven to everyone's satisfaction.

The three dimensions that we occupy in space are accepted as being length, width and height. In other words we can move up or down, north or south, east or west. If you accept that time is the fourth dimension then you have to say that movement through time is always taking place. Movement through the fourth dimension then is involuntary. Of course if time travel is ever invented than time will truly be a dimension that we can travel through at will just like the other three. But it won't quite be the same since, for the period we are in a particular moment of time, we will still age, therefore travel through time will still be partially involuntarily even if its for a mere speck of time. So I think you really would have to say that if time travel becomes a reality then we will have both voluntary and involuntary travel through the fourth dimension at the same time.

Some scientists say that we have many more dimensions than four. But how can this be? What else can we do to move through more dimensions? Not much really at this moment. The other dimensions that the scientists are referring to are on the sub atomic level. The string theory is very popular right now with some scientists. The basic blocks of this theory are one dimensional strings rather than zero dimensional points that are used for traditional physics. But there is a problem with the string theory, it has yet to be tested in experiments for no one has yet figured out how to do this. So why are scientists so interested in the string theory? They believe that some day it may be used to explain everything in our universe. Will this ever happen? Who can say for sure, but as with everything else, I wouldn't be surprised if new theories come along that are better suited for this task.

As I discussed in an earlier article some people believe that a vortex can be a doorway to another dimension. There are people that swear that they have gone through one. One is a man who was walking along a road in Australia heading for a town that was about three hours away by foot. After about twenty minutes he saw the town, a cold chill ran down his back. He had only walked for twenty minutes but had covered three hours worth of road. Did he walk through some sort of dimensional doorway? He thinks so.

The most famous area on Earth that is suspected of having some sort of dimensional portal is, of course, the Bermuda Triangle. While many of the famous disappearances from this area have been explained, many have not. There are those that would swear that the missing people are still alive but occupying a different reality or dimension. Some in different religious communities believe that death is nothing more than the passage form one dimension to the next.

Will future people have access to more dimensions than we do today? It very well could be, but they may also find out that no more dimensions exist.