# Time dimensionS **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 11, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-dimensions/1010090 "2024-11-11T18:19:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-dimensions/1010090/5 "2024-11-11T19:45:45Z")
To help those not closely following the thread linked by the OP, here is the question that set off the discussion about mutiple time dimensions: > [@Was the universe infinitely large immediately after the Big Bang?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-universe-infinitely-large-immediately-after-the-big-bang/1008983/54): > > My question: is causality absolutely linear? If we can observe eventual vectors and anicipate a result, we adjust our behavior based upon the likely/inevitable event. The passage of time is a flow of information, which can identify future events in the present, so I have to wonder if causality violation must be a deal breaker. Then there is what appears to be reference to entirely speculative view of the universe from a recollected reading but not something citable, followed by citing of an essay (e.g. a scientific paper on Arkiv not intended for peer review publication) by a fairly well respected philosopher/scientist: [[0812.3869] Multiple Time Dimensions](https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/0812.3869) I confess I don’t follow the scientific arguments, but the final paragraph is a good reminder to not blow scientific hypothesizing into more than that: > The study of multiple time dimensions here is rather preliminary. I have not discussed gauge fields or other massive fields, and on a conceptual level I have not tackled what may be the most difficult question of all, how to characterize observers and observation in such a theory. What I have shown, I hope, is that theories with multiple time dimensions are a live conceptual possibility, and that if nothing else, they serve to stretch our minds as to what may be physically possible. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-dimensions/1010090)._