My point about 2 dimensional reality is that physics would have little to say since it (1 spatial + 1 temporal dimension) would only be a line. Three dimensional reality (2 spatial + 1 temporal dimension) would be a plane, "flatland."
Note, in the book Flatland time is not a dimension - so two dimensional reality would be the plane, 1 dimension would be the line, the sphere is from the 3 dimensional world, etc.
I know what you said.. My point; is we are frogs in a well on this planet.. (all of us) and are like blind men in a room with an elephant.. using physics to measure and formulate what we cannot observe from our perspective(s).. A worthy task but limited.. I do have a contrary side to me.. Don't know where that comes from..