RE: TI-M: Dimensions

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Subject: RE: TI-M: Dimensions
From: Nick Disabato <nickd@nickd.org>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 18:30:24 -0500
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At 11:45 PM 5/15/2000 +0200, you wrote:

>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.

Dimensions are just an arbitrary definiton thought up by humanity to make 
mathematics more simple.
Perhaps only three dimensions really *do* exist, and the fourth is just our 
attempt to explain the phenomenon of time.

Does "time" exist, anyway?

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