Challenge To Theists

[laconicsax]

62. That is the point.

You could mime a line and say "this is the first dimension," but that line is only one of an infinite number of spatial possibilities and since time could also be assigned the first ordinal, the problems compound. There's no logical way to derive which line would constitute the first dimension and no reason that "the first dimension" must be spatial.

To refer back to the analogy I used earlier, we can determine that a bag of rice weighs five pounds, but there's an infinite number of possibilities for the "first" pound. Similarly, supposing there are an infinite number of dimensions, identifying the first would be like having an infinitely large jug of water and pointing to the first molecule.