Jim Loy We live in a world of three dimensions. Well, we only perceive three dimensions. We can hypothesize many more dimensions. But, they are difficult to imagine. Because of Einstein, we often call time the fourth dimension.
Special relativity shows that time behaves surprisingly like the three spatial dimensions.
The Lorenz equations show this. Length contracts as speed increases. Time expands as speed increases. Scientists have been graphing time, as if it were a length, for hundreds of years. To the left is a typical graph, showing two things in motion, one to the left and one to the right.