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Old 07-28-2008, 02:46 AM   #14 (permalink)
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here's an e-version of edward abbott's flatland
it'll help think about this, despite the mysogyny.

Flatland: A romance of many dimensions

the novel enacts what jj mentioned above from sagan, but tries to figure out the "relative to what...?" question raised by the idea of right angles with respect to this dimension.
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