Played by Matt Smith, he journeys through "Time And Relative Dimension In Space" in his aptly-named ship, the TARDIS -- which looks like a blue British police call box on the outside, and is as iconographic a vehicle as the U.S.S. Enterprise, Millennium Falcon or DeLorean.

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Chandeliers are wonderful for adding dimension to a space, too.

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And, while traditional newspaper or magazine cartoonists are limited by space and dimension, GIFers are not.

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James Turrell's light installations toy with your sense of space and dimension, and Yayoi Kusama makes your reflection part of the art when you step inside her mirror-clad, polka dot mannequin room.

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Squash players also have a tendency to blow up - smashing rackets and outbursts - because they have to deal with the added dimension of sharing personal space in a non-contact sport, he says.

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After land, sea, air and space, cyberspace is now the fifth dimension of warfare.

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These exploit the fact that gravitational waves should cause space to stretch in one direction and shrink in the dimension at right angles to it.

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When light passes through, it behaves as a dimension of time, with the cobalt structure providing the foundation for two dimensions in space.

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