The Logical Progression of Dimensions: Abbott, Edwin A. Campfire
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Posted by Harper on September 07, 192001 at 13:56:20:
Flat-Land, though an entertaining book is also one with a depper meaning then what we see. I say this primarily because I feel that this deeper-yet-oft-missed-meaning is important mathematically speaking but also because it is an important one to the HUMAN NATURE. In Flatland, we are told of the three dimensions below ous and of ours. These dimensions are as follows; the non-dimension, the first dimension, the second dimension, and obviously our own. Starting with the first world we encouter, Flat-Land as our beloved narrator (A Square) affectionately names it, we see that our dimension is really just the logical expansion of his own. As I read it, i found his inelligence, or better to say his lack there of, to be insufferable at first but by the end, I realized that I was guilty of this same flaw. I was ignorant of this up until Square arrived at line land. At first, I thought his anger at the supposed monarch of line land humorous, and I saw the king himself as an ignorant linear teddy bear, who was simply to stupid to see the NEXT LOGICAL PROGRESSION. However, my eyes were not truly opened to the "deeper meaning" of the book until the Sphere came down from the heavenly third dimension to illuminate Square to the things that were true. Square in turn responded with blind rage at the intruders thoughts, and instantly sought to destroy him for speaking succh idiotic lies. But when Square asceneded to the next level, he himself was illuminated to the NEXT LOGICAL PROGRESSION. it is now that I point out my own infuriating stupidity. it took a square to sho me that truly the next dimension that we are all too blind to see is merely in reality theNEXT LOGICAL PROGERSSION.