RE: TI-M: Dimensions

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Subject: RE: TI-M: Dimensions
From: Lance Lachenicht <ElGeeLachenicht@WorldOnLine.co.za>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:45:23 +0200
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Well, the obvious way in which 4-dimensions are drawn is as projections into
a three-d world, and these are studied rather like we can study a shadow
cast by a 3-d object onto a 2-d surface in order to work out what the 3-d
object looks like.

There are some charming books about flatland (2-d beings) published in
Victorian times.

Lance

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this is the way i look at it:
because we are 3 dimensional beings, we cannot even imagine what the 4th
dimension is like unless we were to be taen into the 4th dimension by a 4th
dimensional being.  as far as drawing a picture of the 4th dimension, it is
mpossible.  though i may be possible tomake a 3d model of a 4d object, just
as it is possible to make a 2d drawing of a 3d cube or something.
i think.

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Re: TI-M: Diminsions

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