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Has any one seen the movie Flatland?
If you have:
In Flatland there are "agreed upon" ideas that are not to be intellectually challenged. Are there similar "agreed upon" ideas in our own society that are generally not acceptable to challenge intellectually?
In Flatland a three dimensional being visits the two dimensional world of Flatland. How would a four dimensional being manifest itself to us in our three dimensional world?
If you have not?
Is time another dimension? What are some of the restrictions on how we perceive time and space?
1 Answer
- chan09Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
A principle aspect of the movie (and prior to that the book) is that we are incapable of picturing or comprending of a world that comprises more dimensions than we see or are used to. So when the 2-d characters tried to talk to a 1-d world, nobody from the 1-d world believed them. Likewise, when the 2-d characters were told of a 3-d world they didn't believe it. So there could logically be more dimensions that we could be existing in but, even if it makes empiracal sense, we still can't understand it.
