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Originally posted by dave420
His plane crashed in a place literally littered with wrecked planes. That's all. No wormholes, no interdimensional rifts, no aliens, no reptilians, nothing. A very unfortunate accident.
Come on folks, grow up a little and use that intellect of yours. Leaping to insane conclusions just makes all of us look like fruitcakes.
Originally posted by Tomis_Nexis
One thing Fossett has done is make himself disappear on paper. He technically now does not exist, he's presummed dead.
He has more money that I'd bother to count (and probably him too). Like what some have said in this the thread; the world is a strange place...and I say, so are it's inhabitants.
It's simply with that fortune to make yourself disappear and reappear as someone else, seperate bank accounts under an alias? etc etc....a 4th deminsion? Yes, it's called a fake ID and a fake life, but that's in this world.
I haven't really followed this story for the feeling that I got about his disappearnce being a...hoax on his part. If my best friend or family member had mysteriously disappeared...I would never stop the search. Somebody knows something...from the gov't (probably, considering where he "crashed") to his close family and friends (Branson).
I believe he's alive and well...living in Brazil on a beach in a nice place with a martini at hand, while talkin to Branson about how "it's too hot today.".
I'm not knocking Fossett, he did want most think of doing.
Cheers Fossett..or whoever you are now, cheers.
Originally posted by Odessy
All i know is, I bet Steve's having a blast right now!
He might not want to come back!
Originally posted by Tomis_Nexis
I believe he's alive and well...living in Brazil on a beach in a nice place with a martini at hand, while talkin to Branson about how "it's too hot today.".
Originally posted by NewWorldOver
People who experience 'near-death' (actually, after-death) say they go to the 4th dimension and that it is so marvelous and pristine and infinite that they start to 'lose' themself and forget about their mortal existence on Earth etc.
When they are told they need to go back and carry out their physical life on Earth they cry, beg to stay, etc. When they return to the physical body they feel almost ashamed for wanting to 'die' and leave their family/earth behind.
But the 4th dimension is so fantastic to them that it overwhelms their ego and all memory of the physical world.
Yes, if anybody did discover an entrance to the 4th, they would probably never come back
Originally posted by DraconianKing
This whole 4th dimension thing is absolute BS, no dimension exists that is an alternate world, that would be something different entirely.
Originally posted by gypsyblue
'killing' himself off and starting a new life, free of the cares of his past, living on an island somewhere, like a king.
Correct me if I'm wrong but, isn't the fourth dimension the time axis? Or are you using some other definition of the fourth dimension? And if so, can you please expound on it for those of us who have been wondering what the hell people are talking about when they bring this up?
Since it is hard to try to directly picture the fourth dimension in our minds, perhaps using analogy can help us.
In 1884, Edwin Abbot wrote a book called "Flatland". The book writes about A. Square and his world, Flatland.
You may have already guessed, but Flatland is a 2 dimensional, flat plane and A. Square is a square shaped guy who lives there.
He has two dimensions of free movement.
He can go left/right and back/forth, however because he is restricted to his 2 dimensional Flatland plane, he cannot go up/down off the plane. By analogy, we humans are restricted to our "plane" of existence... and it would be impossible for us to freely move in the fourth dimension. Let's go back to A. Square again.
Note that A. Square can only see what lies in his plane of existence, which means if a 3 dimensional sphere were to pass through Flatland, A. Square would not see the sphere, but just 2 dimensional "slices". Taking this further, imagine if a sphere passed halfway through Flatland but stopped in the middle. the sphere would interesect Flatland as just one circle and A. Square could see it!
Furthermore, imagine if as the sphere approaches Flatland, A. Square watches as the sphere slowly moves through his plane. What would A. Square see? Recall that A. Square can only see 2-d slices of the sphere (or circles) so what A. Square would percieve is a circle suddenly appearing, then growing... then reaching a maximum size as the sphere was halfway through and as it exited, the circle would grow smaller until it disappeared. This means that 3d objects could be explained to a 2d being as a bunch of "slices stacked" on top of each other.
Try to imagine taking a bunch of circles and stacking them. They would begin to form a skeleton framework of the actual 3d image.
Similarly if a 4d hypersphere would intersect our plane of existence, we would see a 3d sphere appear out of no where. It would grow until the hypersphere was halfway through, then it would shrink back to nothing. Theoretically, we could stack these spheres to form a hypersphere, but we can't stack them in the usual sense, but rather it would have to extend in the fourth dimension which takes us back to the original dilemma of trying to visualize it.