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jamesop
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Hi,
I've been reading quite a few popular science books (Michio Kaku, Stephen Hawking) where the specific example for us to visualise how a 4D creature would interact with us is portrayed through us interacting with 2D "flatlanders".
The specific example is how we would lift a 2D flatlander of its universe and then place him back down in some other location. The problem I have with this is for us to interact with, and pickup something it needs to have 3 dimensions, or else we'd have nothing to grip.
So surely a 4D creature would have the same problem picking us up, as we'd also be lacking a fundamental dimension that they need to manipulate us?
Thanks
I've been reading quite a few popular science books (Michio Kaku, Stephen Hawking) where the specific example for us to visualise how a 4D creature would interact with us is portrayed through us interacting with 2D "flatlanders".
The specific example is how we would lift a 2D flatlander of its universe and then place him back down in some other location. The problem I have with this is for us to interact with, and pickup something it needs to have 3 dimensions, or else we'd have nothing to grip.
So surely a 4D creature would have the same problem picking us up, as we'd also be lacking a fundamental dimension that they need to manipulate us?
Thanks