- Same is true for humans too. About their personality. Constantly changing and you will never meet the same person twice in that sense.
- Every geography has a timestamp.
- I get the latitude, longitude, and they added time. But what was the fourth dimension? Or third rather, because the post assumption is that time was the fourth added.
- The lat and lon are actually 3d since we live, up to a first approximation, on the surface of a sphere. The correct way to think about it is xyz in a reference frame anchored in the center of the Earth
- Altitude is the third dimension, but I presume you knew that.
"Geography is three dimensional" doesn't correctly communicate the time dimension.
- Hmm I thought that, but we don't really live in a 3D world (or use the altitude parameter in a very meaningful way in life) so I wondered whether there's something else I was missing.
- I wonder what makes you belittle the altitude dimension? Buildings have storys, humans can sit and stand, birds can fly, your eyes can move up and down your monitor.
- I think the closest thing to the fourth dimension in this context is money. If used correctly, it alters ones experience meaningfully by altering what's in one's proximity.
For example, I could be living in a polluted region, but if I have sufficient money, I can ensure the air I breathe indoors is very clean and comfortable via aggressive filtration and air conditioning. I could also ensure I live by the water or near sufficient greenery.
- “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
