2.18.2007

Flatland Meets Elephant

I remember Carl Sagan's Cosmos series and I still have the book. In it, he used Abbott's thought experiment regarding Flatland, a 2-dimensional world with 2-D inhabitants, and what they would experience in a 3-D universe -- placed in a box, they could not climb out since they were unable to experience "up." This clip follows in the same tradition.


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Not always theoretical... not even always academic.. but always written..