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But what if we visualized the space/time continuum as having multiple expanded dimensions or even infinite dimensions?

To make it interesting, we might consider Everett's Multi-World Theory which derives from Schrödinger's equation (the cat is both alive and dead.)

As MHGinTN said, paraphrased, in the absence of time events cannot occur and in the absence of space things cannot exist.

Both are very true, but a choice event whether quantum or classical (choosing a taco over a hamburger for lunch) - does not necessarily collapse the apparent other paths, e.g. the hamburger choice. At least in Everett's theory all choices were made and the consequences exist some where/when.

In a finite space/time continuum with volumetric time - past, present and future concurrently exist. But if his theory is correct then all paths would also exist.

If so, the Great White Throne judgment will be amazing as all the "what ifs" would be answered. Everything would be known.

But time and space (however many dimensions) are part of the Creation and not restrictions on the Creator of them. Moreover, we Christians are already alive with Christ in God and thus have a sense of not really being "home" in the flesh.

Every "natural" men Jesus was speaking to could physically hear Him, but only those with "ears to hear" could spiritually hear him.

But mortal (4D) Christians discern spiritually as well as physically, i.e. the Y axis. So we know things or have understanding on top of, or perhaps even in spite of, our sensory perceptions.

I've never been able to carry a tune in the flesh - very poor hearing - but hopefully, in the next life I'll be in that choir with you and whatever other beings God has gathered up.

But He may have some other function in mind. We'll see.

A person who does not have a glimmer of this insight must surely lead a dismal existence. What hope could he have?

Truly, Faith and Reason are not mutually exclusive but rather intensify each another in our walk with the Lord.

God the Father has revealed Himself in four ways: through the Person of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ - through the Person of the indwelling Holy Spirit - through Scripture - and through His Creation, both physical and non-physical.

All of His revelations are consistent.

The flight path of the fly is moot in the example - i.e. whether he is flying in a straight line in the car, circling your head or zig-zagging. In the example, it's simply the distance being covered over a certain amount of time and to the observer watching him from a roadside table, the total distance and total time, i.e. cumulative.

Likewise, since the fly-watching observer in the example is under the same gravitational pull of the earth, the distance shortened by the West-East rotation of the earth is moot. The observer is being taken on the earth's surface in the same direction and speed as the fly and the car.

At higher elevations, even while orbiting within the gravitational well of the earth, the differences would be more measurable. Likewise, the reduction of distance traveled by a man jumping West (or added by jumping East) would be moot though the affect would be measurable at higher elevations, i.e. away from the gravitational well.

This has been tested also concerning time. The lower the gravity, the faster time elapses. Conversely, the higher the gravity, the slower time elapses. So if you were in the vicinity of a black hole for a week, for instance, 40 years may have elapsed on earth.

Interestingly flights going East-West take longer than flights going West-East not in contradiction of these factors but because of the West-East direction of the jet streams (tail winds.)

The example I used presumes that, except for the fly-watching observer, mph observations are absolute, i.e. not relative to an observer "in" space/time.

For instance, if the observer were "in" the space/time fabric between the Milky Way galaxy and Andromeda - the 486,000 miles our solar system travels in an hour would be so small by comparison to the size of the Milky Way, that the whole Milky Way galaxy might appear to him as if it were moving in "slow motion."

Inhabitants of space/time all suffer from the "observer problem."

Only God the Creator can objectively perceive His creation. He and He alone sees "all that there is" all at once. Every where. Every when. And He alone knows the full number and types of dimensions (space, time, etc.)

That He cares to observe thrills me. For without that will, there would be no justice, no objective Truth - it would all be observer relative.

And that He numbers every hair on our heads - despite what we mortals can perceive about of the cosmos or the quantum - comforts me.