Flatland

[slinks]

Anybody else read this? I can't seem to get the implications of four dimensional space out of my head after reading it -.-

[Kirl]

Read it and loved it!

Simple enough to understand and extrude simple geometry into 4 (and more) dimensions but impossible to visualise just the same. I always get vague impressions of tangled calabi yau-like objects when trying to actually visualise anything over 3 dimensions. I'll need something unusually strong to get me out of my 3 dimensional mindset.

Upward, not northward...! 

[Yaloopy]

...the novella written in 1884? I'll check it out!

[combatking0]

If only my mind could expand beyond its current 3.141 dimensions. Then I would be able to imagine such shapes.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

I found it an excellent tool for really understand how limited the human mind is. Just because we collectively cannot fathom something does not necessarily mean that it is not plausible even existent.

[rdc]

This kind of stuff makes me think of a story I read a long while back about a house that was built as a multi-dimensional structure. Some sort of hyper-cube thingy. The doors in the house opened up onto other dimensions not rooms. It was a neat story but I can't remember the name of it now.

[Kirl]

One of the last (and best) books I read was "house of leaves". About a house with inside spaces larger then the actual house was, and these were slowly changing in size as well, forming a cold, dark, shifting labyrinth with rooms so big they were devoid of echos and flashlights didn't reach the walls. Expeditions were set up to explore the insides and several got lost in the infinitely large shifting spaces. The book itself was in fact written as a kind of labyrinth with certain blocks of text written upsdide down or even through the depth of the pages (wikipedia example).

All this dimensional weirdness reminds me of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. I think it was the secret ruler of the universe who had his little shack built inside out, so that the entire universe was actually inside and the small space that his shack enclosed was outside.

Love to know the name of that book rdc, it sounds interesting!