Do 4 dimensional beings create 3 dimensional shadows?
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Actually, the first two answers are right; but, disregarding time, if we were 4-dimensional beings we would still only cast 2-dimensional shadows.\n\nEven 2-dimensional objects also only cast 2-dimensional shadows.  Anyway, what would your 4th dimension be?\n\nShadows are merely the result of an object being between the shadow and the light source; shadow is merely absence of light.  Shadows are always 2-dimensional.\n\nAnd as far as considering time to be a dimension goes, we are IN the dimension of time, but we are not IN the dimensions of width-height-length.  They are attributes used to describe us; they are part of us, we are not part of them.
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The four-character form IIII creates a visual symmetry with the VIII on the other side, which IV would not.\n\nEither IIII or IV is acceptable for 4, so I guess the "eyes" have it.
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Without the fourth dimension, no three-dimensional object would exist.  So the simple answer to your question is YES.\n\nThe more complicated one is SOMEWHAT.\n\nThere is no true stationary object in the universe that we know of.  Even an atom held at absolute zero still has velocity in that the medium it's being held in is still moving along with the rest of the earth, solar system, galaxy, etc.  Anything that moves through space is also moving through time.  So, without time (widely regarded as the fourth dimension), no motion would be possible.\n\nIf no motion were possible, then the ability to measure and quantify that three-dimensional object would also be impossible, and thus the whole question becomes paradoxical and irrelevant.\n\nConfused yet?  I am... :)
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It's depicted as planes, but it really is 4-dimensional. It's a lot of planes, in different positions.\n\nI can guess that the 4th dimension is chaotic... that means that the slightest movement in the 4th dimensions can make you wind up somewhere completely different, sort of like a fractal.
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One possible three-dimensional cross section of a cone in the fourth dimension is a sphere. (Think of the analogy of a cross section of a cone in 3 dimensions being a circle. It can also be an ellipse or hyperbola.) There are some interesting illustrations of such cross sections (not only spheres, but some other shapes analogous to the hyperbola or ellipse) at the following link:\n\nhttp://www.well.com/~abs/SIGGRAPH96/4Dtess.html
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consider your interesting question in 2 dimensions for example.\n\nthe surface a shadow exists on is its space or "nothingness" as you call it.  The shadow doesnt directly perceive this surface but exists ON it.\n\nwe exist in 3-D space but percieve it as nothing similiarly.\n\nthe "edge" that you refer to for the shadow is directly above the shadow at all times but the shadow cannot "go there" because it needs a surface to exist on ( a medium in effect ). \n\nFor us, the edge of the universe is always near us but in a direction we cannot physically point to.  We cannot ever reach the edge by traveling thru space.  It is like a shadow lifting off its surface and is a meaningless feat because a shadow cant exist without its surface or space.  \n\nsome physicist believe we live on the surface of a 4 dimensional sphere and if we traveled in a straight line thru space we would end up where we started ! \n\nregardless, your question cannot be understood by common sense but only abstractly.   simply put,  existence requires space and beyond space nothing exists  as far as rationalization.  \n\nanother way to understand it is to consider that space is something and not nothing.  "nothing" is that which is NOT space.\n\nyou see, it is all a matter of wordplay as no one has actually observed any of these ideas firsthand.
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we're in the third dimension. . Talking to your soul is a matter of trusting your intuition, and yes, witches are real\n\nA line is one dimensional. A piece of paper is sort of two dimensional. And a basketball is three dimensional. This is important to conceptualizing our relationship with the spiritual. \n\nImagine a piece of paper. Now imagine a race of 2 dimensional stick people living on the paper. You (living in this three dimensional reality) see one of these stick people, and you say, "hey you!" the stick man looks around, but there's no one near him on the page. You say, "Hey, I'm talking to you," and you push on the man against the paper. He feels an odd and unnerving sensation for which he has no ability to understand. You press yourself against the page, and a sort of shadow of yourself appears on the page. This is very much like the relationship which we have with beings from the other realm. Humans exist in a primarily 3 dimensional universe, but scientists predict that there are many other dimensions.Whether or not this is exactly what is going on, it feels a lot like what is going on.\n\nIntuition is the key to tapping into the spiritual realm. Develop that through meditation, singing bowls, or divination tools such as tarot cards, runes, pendulum, scrying, magic 8 ball, whatever\n\nWitches are very real. I'll be with about a thousand in a week\n\nI once saw a one legged witch turn a storm.\n\nMy first ritual, we were all comfortable throughout the ritual, but the instant the ritual ended, we realized that the room was cold. The heat hadn't been on and the whole time and it was spring equinox.\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could put healing energy into people and tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nFor a while, a witch and I maintained a karmic connection through an object which was divided and each of us kept half, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"
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That's not the earth's shadow.  That only happens during a lunar eclipse.  What you are seeing is the different phases of the moon.
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no, two- dimensional objects aren't real in that sense... even a sheet of paper (as close to 2-d as you can get in the physical world) is really 3 dimensional and does have wieght and mass.
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The 4th dimension is time. It is essentially equivalent to "flat land" falling through the 3rd dimension.
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This past year in my house will see dark shape very briefly-shape seems to be moving  but am not afraid . Shadow has shape that indicates person but doesn't indicate male or female.  It'll startle me sometimes but never feel threatened or intimidated. Don't know what the shadow shape is--do know not a demon for there are no demons at least not the kind reflected in art or illustrations.No mentions of God creating demons and Satan does not have the ability to create-perhaps demons are only  a human concept but not real. Not sure if I believe in ghosts for if we die and move on who are the ghosts.
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Shadows should be black, because a shadow is abscence of light. But really the air scatters lights, and what you see is the surface where the shadow is illuminated by this scattered light or by reflection on another surface.\nWhere there is no atmosphere you will see deep black shadows, for example in the pictures of astronauts in the moon.
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i saw many good answers to this question but none of them address your question from a theoretical standpoint.\n\n1. the question of whether "something" ( or any physical entity ) casts a shadow is irrelevant to us being able to "see" the shadow  or the entity ( which is what many of the other questions address ).\n\n2.  therefore, consider a single atom or molecule.  it "exists" in space ( but is invisible ) and when it is subject to light ( a stream of photons ), it WILL alter their paths. ( no question )\n\n3.  a shadow is defined as a variation in the intensity of light cast by an object.  any alteration from the original pattern of photons caused by these atoms CAN be measured ( on a surface or other medium ( film etc ))\n\n4. this ALTERATION is a shadow in essence.  \n\n5. whether or not the object or the shadow is visible to the naked eye is NOT the issue.  ( people with poor vision cant see many things and microscopes ( as well as other instruments ) enable us to see many other things.)  \n\n5.  the FACT is that any material entity ( i.e atom or collection of atoms ) alters light and its trajectory whether we see it or not with our own eyes.\n\nthe answer to your question is that every "something" ( that you call it ) ALWAYS has a shadow because it EXISTS ( irrelevant to it being invisible or not due the technology ( cloak ) you spoke about ).  its just a matter of measuring the "subtle" shadows with the relevant instruments.
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4th dimension is easy, since it's time.  Just imagine something moving in a 3d volume and you're imagining four dimensions, x,y,z and t.\n\nYou can imagine an object moving in five dimensions or more pretty easily, too.\n\nImagine two three dimensional volumes, one is x, y, z, the other is x, y, w.   Now imagine a point moving along a line in each volume, such that if the point is folowing some equation f(x,y,z,w,t) the x,y,z volume is tracking its coordinates in x,y,z and the x,y,w is tracking its coordiates over time in x,y,w.  You need to keep them coordinated in your head, which can be tricky, but if you get good at it you can also imagine rotating one or both 3d volume about any given axis and keep tracking the point.  So, you can rotate x,y,z into x,y,w, or z,y,w, or whatever, while still imagining the motion of the point.  And, there you are, imagining five dimensions simultaneously.   You can do this for any number of dimensions, keeping track of them via rotation of basis and/or multiple 3d volumes, but it gets a little tricky, sort of like keeping two or three songs running in your head at the same time, but with practice it can be done.   I can successfully keep track of up to eight dimensions this way with ease, any more than that takes serious concentration.  It can be trickier if using non-euclidian volumes, but in some cases, like the small curled dimensions used in string theory, it can actually be easier than dealing with many large dimensions.
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I dont believe it...\n\nBut human mind can make amazing illusions\n\n;)
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If you mean how are shadows formed, the answer is simple.  A solid object blocks light.  Since the light can't go through it, then the area all around it has light, but the area right behind it is dark.  \n\nSince light bounces around, it's not completely black inside the shadow.  Some light will still bounce in there and light it up a little, but it won't be as much light as the area around it.  Less light = shadow.
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the sensors we have in our body are only able to detect the 3 dimensions that we see. some physicists think that there are up to...11? dimensions existing, however we are unable to detect them and therefore...its not possible to "go" there. the same as we are not able to "go" into a 2D world...unless someone has figured out a way to become flat