Re: Noisetracker VAMPS XFACTOR 4-D music disk

[glyn@gsb013.cs.ualberta.ca (Reade Glyn Devin)]

In article <RWIFALL.93Oct28162128@dante.nmsu.edu>, Richard J Wifall writes...
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> In article <CFKr2J.C25@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
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>>I was waiting for someone to latch onto the fact that the fourth dimension is
>>TIME :-)  Technically, all sequencers are 4D, since they play notes over time.
> >Of course, all live musicians are too. (:
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> 	Actually, time is rarely considered to be "the fourth
> dimension" if you talk to math guru type people.  Heat displacement in
> a three dimensional object or something similar is more common.

Actually, us physics-types use however many dimensions are necessary ;)
Probably the most common number is six (such as for phase-space; three
position and three momenta dimensions).  It's just an abstraction,
anyway -- mathematics is a tool we use to describe the world.  It has no
physical reality nor meaning in itself (he says as he quickly ducks to
avoid being hit by flying debris thrown by annoyed mathmaticians).

Devin

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