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There are many different "lines of reasoning" that lead to this conclusion as well. For example as an object approaches the speed of light, an observer will see it become smashed perfectly flat (length contraction) in the direction of it's travel, which is the logical equivalent of a "loss of one dimension".

In other words as something tries to "escape" our 3D manifold the effect that has is to remove one a spatial dimension. Also as something goes to nearer to speed of light, we know it also loses "time" dimension. No flow of time (from perspective of observer).

And all of these same "divide by zero" kind of impossibilities are precisely what's also happening on event horizons. In other words Special Relativity reinforces this theory. My claim is that even the Lorentz equations are showing us the way in which a dimension is lost. Lorentz is a "smooth" way of going from N dimensions to N minus 1 dimensions.

EDIT: So there must be a stronger relationship between Spinors and Lorentz than what's currently known! By having complex components, Spinors is the way to have "partial moves" in a direction, while still technically maintaining orthogonality to all other directions.






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