If a human being is exposed to additional unfurled spatial dimensions, would he/she..

[Braznor]

...survive the ordeal?

I know that increasing spatial dimensions in the context of laws of physics makes the effect of the laws increase or decrease geometrically as distance between objects varies in that dimensional space. Is this true?

My question is how detrimental would such a change in the effect of such laws and structure of spatial dimensions be for a human being who has basically evolved in three dimensional space?

Would the various atoms of his body simply fly apart by being exposed to such an environment or would it survive grievously injured or would there be no effect at all by some unknown(for me) factor reducing out all the changes and leaving things as they are.

If the change would destroy the living being, how long could it possibly take?

 

[TecHNooB]

*Spins the wheel*

Bankruptcy.

 

[firewolfsm]

It's like, even if there WAS some other dimension, we would totally be confined to one side of it because we were created by the dude in 3 dimensions.

 

[Murloc]

you can make an analogy: a 2 dimensional being, like a square, when exposed to the third dimension would risk a collapse, because in 2 dimension there is no need for an additional support.
All of his internal organs would fall in the third dimension.

If you put the square in a perfectly flat surface though, and put another flat surface over it, the square will be able to survive.

 

[Ninjahedge]

Maybe.

Or, just like a piece of paper, they might simply not exist in that third dimension (since it is a relative dimension anyway. Not all of us are aligned in X, Y and Z....)

This is probably kind of a fun fictional exploration (such as the characters in a Wrinkle in Time being placed in a two dimensional world after warping through the otherworld), but realistically, I do not thing this is a possible solution. We may be living in a 30 dimension plane, but we only EXIST in 3 (maybe 4 if you consider time) of them. All the others, like the subatomic micro-dimensions they were talking about (are they still theorizing on that?) simply do not enter our own realm of Being.

Now, aside from Buckaroo Bonzai talking about the space between atoms (which still did not call in other dimensions, just another plane in the space that was unoccupied) is there any real reason for asking this?

 

[Cattlegod]

technically we already exist in the extra dimension(s) - we just occupy a point and not a measured distance in the extra dimension. it is like a 2d square in 3d space. the square exists on the 3rd dimension as a specific location point, but it does not occupy a measurement. you can move it in the 3rd dimension by moving it to a different point, but it never occupies the space.

 

[SlitheryDee]

you can make an analogy: a 2 dimensional being, like a square, when exposed to the third dimension would risk a collapse, because in 2 dimension there is no need for an additional support.
All of his internal organs would fall in the third dimension.

If you put the square in a perfectly flat surface though, and put another flat surface over it, the square will be able to survive.

That's interesting. So if we could use an extra-dimensional construct to shore up the parts of us that would otherwise fly or fall off into that extra dimension, we could survive?

 

[PowerEngineer]

If string theory (or M-theory) is right, then we're all actually existing in an 11-dimensional universe where one is time, three are the spatial dimensions we are able sense, and another 7 dimensions are so small in extent that we are unaware of their existance.

I'd therefore suggest that the proper analogy would be that a being who perceives himself to be two-dimensional might find that he is actually in a three-dimensional universe where the thickness of the two-dimensional "paper" is too small to sense.

So, I think the answer would depend a lot on how fast any of the spatial dimensions is expanding. For instance, the three spatial dimensions that we perceive are all expanding at a rate that is slow enough that the other forces (i.e. gravity and electro/weak/strong) are easily able to hold us together without injury

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I believe we're "exposed" to them all the time. Maybe you mean aware of/perceives?