Writing
But if being able to move back and forth in "something" is the only qualification for it being a dimension, then why aren't things like temperature a dimension? I mean if you have an object, it can get heated and cooled just as easily as it can be moved up and down. You can graph temperature with respect to time the same way you can position, I mean that's literally what a weather map is. So isn't temperature a dimension? Hell, what even is a dimension?
This post originally appeared on my old blog and includes images, references, and formatting from that page. I am keeping the full version there rather than recreating it here.
It is an early piece, but it captures a thread I still care about: using writing to take an abstract scientific idea, overthink it, and eventually turn it into a question about how people create meaning.