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Re: Alien/Human Relations, Version 2 [Re: JacquesCousteau]
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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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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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Re: Alien/Human Relations, Version 2 [Re: trendal]
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"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]
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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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No one knows the worth of innocence till he knows it is gone forever, and that money can't buy it back. Not the saint, but the sinner that repenteth, is he to whom the full length and breadth, and height and depth, of life's meaning is revealed. Good and evil loose all objective meaning and are seen as equally necessary and contrasting elements in the masterpiece that is the universe.

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Re: Alien/Human Relations, Version 2 [Re: nubious]
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Bingo :wink:

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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