Can there be a higher dimension than the fifth one? If we can define an object by its location, its existence in time and the version of it regarding previous decision outcomes, is there a sixth, independent coordinate which can not be derived by the first five dimensions?
Well, according to Rob Bryanton, there are ten dimensions - it's weird. Beyond six, it blows my mind. If you want your mind to be blown too, watch this:
Remember the tv series Sliders? That's what I'm talking about. If you could slide through the sixth dimension, you could access worlds that are completely different from ours. That would be cool, wouldn't it. In the contemporary series Fringe, the main character Olive is able to switch to a parallel universe where the twin towers are still standing, nobody uses paper anymore, all payments are electronic, and everybody works with touch screen tablet computers.
From the current point in time, you can make decisions, and influence your future reality. But what has happened, has happened - you can't change the past. So you can decide to start a new career today - but you can't choose to have had a completely different career in the past. From here, through the fifth dimension, you can only access the possibilities that exist based on this version of the universe.
Now, imagine that you could switch to other, completely different alternate realities. For example, to the parallel world where you already have won the lottery, or the one where computers have not been invented. How could you get there? Well, in order to do so, you would need to move through something else than space, time, or possible decision points. You'd need a sixth dimension. Let's call it transformation.
The sixth dimension is a transformation of object properties that is not feasible in spacetime by ordinary decisions. It's a kind of magic. Thus, a six-dimensional object is defined by six coordinates: The position in space and time, the version of it regarding the outcome of past decision points, and the version of it regarding some kind of higher dimensional transformation beyond the law of cause and effect.
Well, that sounds crazy! Of course, this is a very theoretical mind game; contemporary philosophy. But if you think about it, rationally, it makes sense. Imagine all the points that you can adress through location, time, and decision outcomes. If there exist points that cannot be adressed by these five coordinates, the only possibility for a dimension higher than 5 is something that can not be derived by a linear combination of decision outcomes in space and time. If there is a sixth dimension, its some kind of transformation beyond the one that can be achieved through ordinary decision points in spacetime.
