Fresh Hacker News | Geography is four-dimensional

21 points by galfarragem 1 hour ago | 4 comments

▲admiralrohan 15 minutes ago

Same is true for humans too. About their personality. Constantly changing and you will never meet the same person twice in that sense.

▲pella 51 minutes ago

Every geography has a timestamp.

▲soco 41 minutes ago

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.

▲deweller 37 minutes ago

Altitude is the third dimension, but I presume you knew that.

"Geography is three dimensional" doesn't correctly communicate the time dimension.

▲soco 26 minutes ago

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.

▲OutOfHere 2 minutes ago

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.

▲roywiggins 24 minutes ago

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”