Lorraine Ford
The idea of a dimension is an artefact of human mathematics, where numbers are plotted on a graph.
But there are no actual real-world dimensions, with numbers ranging from minus infinity to zero to plus infinity.
No real-world category, e.g. the spatial position category, has a dimension with an inbuilt number continuum, so that numbers can smoothly morph into other numbers, or so that numbers can jump to other pre-existing numbers.
When real-world “number jumps” occur, something (matter, i.e. a small part of the universe) has had to create new numbers, and assign these numbers to categories.
And when these number jumps occur, other numbers that apply to other categories are changed, due to the law-of-nature mathematical relationships.
This is the method by which a real-world mathematical system moves itself, because there are no such things as dimensions.
So, either there exists actual highly-inefficient real-world dimensions for categories where the vast bulk of the numbers just hang around and never get used, OR number change is more efficient, and involves the creation and assignment (to a category) of new numbers, plus the law-of-nature mathematical relationships between the categories.
With the second more efficient option, numbers are not things that exist on a line; numbers can only be special types of relationships between categories, where the numerator and denominator categories cancel out, leaving things that have no category.
With the second more efficient option, the real-world system (or small parts of the real-world system) is seen to be essentially creative (of new numbers and new categories/ relationships).
