Re: TI-M: Dimensions


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Re: TI-M: Dimensions




Great, just what we needed, a math conspiracy theory.
kc8apf
kc8apf@ti-files.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Disabato" <nickd@nickd.org>
To: <ti-math@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 7:30 PM
Subject: RE: TI-M: Dimensions


>
> 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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