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Re: Alien/Human Relations, Version 2

[Re: JacquesCousteau]
#2313893 - 02/08/04 09:10 AM (21 years, 2 months ago)

Well no, because we quite obviously do not live in two dimensions. I am 5'7 in height...if we were 2-D I would have no height at all, only length and width.

For the sake of the argument, I am imagining the skin of the soap bubble to have zero thickness...that is, it is a truely 2-D surface with no height.

However, we already do use the surface of the Earth as a rough analogy of a 2-D universe. When you tell someone you are going to meet them...how often do you provide them with coordinates above/below sea level? :smirk:

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Re: Alien/Human Relations, Version 2

[Re: trendal]
#2314002 - 02/08/04 10:35 AM (21 years, 2 months ago)

"For the sake of the argument, I am imagining the skin of the soap bubble to have zero thickness...that is, it is a truely 2-D surface with no height."

K, this clears it up.. I interpretted the first post about it as if you were suggesting the beings on the surface of the bubble were like us, or something. heh. I dunno.

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Re: Alien/Human Relations, Version 2

[Re: JacquesCousteau]
#2314997 - 02/08/04 04:29 PM (21 years, 2 months ago)

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JacquesCousteau said:
"For the sake of the argument, I am imagining the skin of the soap bubble to have zero thickness...that is, it is a truely 2-D surface with no height."

K, this clears it up.. I interpretted the first post about it as if you were suggesting the beings on the surface of the bubble were like us, or something. heh. I dunno.

either way, you can apply this example to a 5D universe, when we exist in 4d spacetime, and yes, it's something we may not be able to fully comprehend, but it's the same idea...

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Re: Alien/Human Relations, Version 2

[Re: nubious]
#2315204 - 02/08/04 06:12 PM (21 years, 2 months ago)

Bingo

It is much more productive to try and visualize things with fewer dimensions than our own spacetime than it is to attempt at visualizing more dimensions.

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