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"Flatland" by Edward Abbott: two dimensions of the world?
How the inhabitants of "Flatland", written by Edward Abbott move two dimensions in their world? Do not use with "Sphere", a three-dimensional? I am completely baffled on sentense: "I jump … our method of propulsion and stop … our Alphabet and method of writing, adapted to our linear tablets … omission is not forgotten by the author, but his concern for the reader's time. "How to start the movement in a field in two dimensions, and why the author omitted this part? Thank you for your time in advance.
If I lived in a place that was really only one dimension, which would my experience of a place? By convention, call this place "Flatland. In Flatland, the dimension is the length, ie no height or width lower. As I moved along Flatland, I could not experience the space above me or I experience space beside me. There would be no meaning to the phenomena of right-left or up and down, not up and down. The evolution of my physical structure would be that, because there are no parties, my eyes, if I had two, one on one side of me and the other in the end opposite. I think the one-dimensional chain. Everything in me that need to be aligned one after the other component, as it is wide allows two components to the other side. Now, suppose that, during a walk last night, I met another person walking in mine. Our environment D be such that when we approach each other, neither would be able to go around each other. Neither would be able to go on the other. In Brief In other words, it would not be able to pass between them. If I developed an ulcer and the doctor had to operate to remove ulcer, the doctor would have to go through my eyes, then through the next component, for example my heart, liver and so on until my stomach. Flatland entire existence would experience. Everything in Flatland is a single file at the end of life. If this was unique existence in three dimensions on the ground, then my life would be a factor in the sun. What would be my experience of the sun? The light and the darkness did could not be explained by a planet rotates on a three-dimensional axis, the loans on the same side facing the sun and the other facing the sun. Remember it no coins Flatland. So what would explain the phenomena of light and dark experience. The indicator looks like one of my eyes, but not the other eye. Another look at the experience of darkness. A small point of light looks like an eye. This, of course, they have no height or width, length only. As light travels from its source to my eyes forward, they could not go further because there is no space around which one could travel. The eye on the other side could never experience light, but could never, at least during the time I living the experience of darkness. Because my eyes the images transferred in my brain, it would be somewhere in the middle of my long body, my brain simultaneously and continuously receive signals from the light and darkness. Consistency is a factor that the sun never one eye and stand up to the next. This is because the earth would not rotate on an axis. The rotation around a axis would have three dimensions through which they run. Can not be light or dark, always be both light and darkness. in the world of Flatland light and the darkness did not differ by time, but they coexist together in the same time. There would be a smooth transition from light to darkness, there would be a reciprocal relationship between light and darkness. This is the philosophy that the mind perceived in Flatland. This philosophy, when is passed from generation to generation, become values based on mutual exchange between light and darkness rather than a conflict between light and darkness. As people became more sophisticated Flatland, the exchange would result in a mutual exchange of life among the peoples of the light and dark complexion villages completion. Of course, predators would still go out at night to hunt. Therefore, it is always developed a fear of darkness. Now, suppose that I, a resident of Flatland, he woke up one morning and discovered that a new dimension, a second dimension of width. What effect would this second dimension to my perception of reality? Well, now, I have two eyes on one side of my body, assuming that evolution has. My organs are held side by side instead of being aligned. But there are still organizations that are above the other, because there is not yet as high. Now if I can get an ulcer, the doctor did not open his eyes to get there, you can pass through the area of the head between my two eyes. And finally, when I meet Flatland with another resident, I have more mobility, I have to finish my journey to the meeting of another resident, I can go around him. It is a great advantage, I now can not move back and forward and from right to left or diagonally. It follows an exponential increase in my freedom of movement. Presumably "Hey! This experience similar to a worm or other insect crawling on our three dimensional world should have." But in reality, it is not. No, because the worm can eat a piece ay, which means they move into a third dimension, height. Remember, two-dimensional Flatland, the Height does not exist. This was suggested by a dear friend, who was also a classmate of physics, which, in this existence two dimensions, the inhabitants of Flatland see the sun begins as a development and expansion in a large circle with the time (which is, again, because there is no measure of height), and, over time, reduce to a point and then disappeared. This idea came from the sun's existence, growth and death puts into perspective the concept of time. It also separates light from darkness instead of light constant on one side and constant darkness on the other side in the same time, as was the case in a one-dimensional Flatland. Now suppose that a whole decade! hmmmmmmmm.
