tynor@uiucuxc.UUCP (02/12/84)
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uiucuxc!tynor Feb 11 15:05:00 1984
For an interesting story based on this type of idea, read:
Flatland by Abbot (can't remember the first name, Morris(?)))
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It's the story of a Circle (in a two-dimensional world) who
meets a Sphere (obviously in the third dimension...) The Circle
can only percieve the Sphere as another Circle (albiet one who
can shrink to nothing...) There is nothing that the Sphere can
do to convince the Circle that the third dimension exists, until
the Circle enters it... Then he tries to convince his fellow
2nd dimensioners...
Steve Tynor
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University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana