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To: hosepipe
Actually, physics per se deals with matter and energy. Geometric physics focuses on the structure of physical "reality" regardless of dimensions.

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.

12,916 posted on 04/17/2007 11:18:33 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl; betty boop
[.. 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. ..]

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..

12,917 posted on 04/17/2007 11:50:43 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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