Re: Welcome back Androcles

To V

Spot the difference -

"You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can
represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they
think that by models of thee dimensions they could represent one of
four-if they could master the perspective of the thing. See?'"

http://www.bartleby.com/1000/1.html


"In the first place, we imagine an existence in two-dimensional space.
Flat beings with flat implements, and in particular flat rigid
measuring-rods, are free to move in a plane. For them nothing exists
outside of this plane: that which they observe to happen to themselves
and to their flat "things" is the all-inclusive reality of their
plane....and on and on"

http://www.bartleby.com/173/31.html


I am certain that you could have a conversation on warped cyberspace
but I assure you that I do not need convincing.

Maybe geologists will follow their physicists counterparts and adapt
'Journey To The Center Of The Earth' as a working model for geology,who
knows !,for if there is nobody good enough around to spot where this
relativistic nonsense comes from it is more frightening than the
adherents to the exotic science fictiion trash that could be found in a
bookstore in 1901.

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