tynor@uiucuxc.UUCP (02/12/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1625000:uiucuxc:19400010:000:645 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(?))) -------- 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 ihnp4!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!tynor University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana