Exploring other dimensions - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
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Imagine a two-dimensional world -- you, your friends, everything is 2D. In his 1884 novella, Edwin Abbott invented this world and called it Flatland. Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan take the premise of Flatland one dimension further, imploring us to consider how we would see dimensions different from our own and why the exploration just may be worth it.
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- Educator Alex Rosenthal, George Zaidan
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What if there was a 2 dimensional world in the vertical plane, like a window or the screen of a TV?
How could creatures live in that world with similar constraints as in Flatland (i.e. they can’t pass through each other and have to be able to see or sense their world)?
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Roman Jones
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they wouldn't be able to see it due to it being flat
Lauren Tyger
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they couldn't see nor survive
Kaiden Branan
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They couldn't see it because it would be flat.
Gavin Kelly
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they would barely be able to see anything and they wouldn't survive
Marianne Boothman
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They couldn't see it because it would be beyond their perception
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John Myers
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They couldn't see it because it would be beyond their perception. They basically couldn't see 3d shapes with 2d eyes.
Travis Calvetti
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If there was a 2 dimensional world in the vertical plane, there wouldn't be good ways to observe the world around us, kind of like the example from the video.
Savitri Arpita
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If there was 2 dimensional world then creatures can't able to see the things that are in 3 dimension they just can't recognize it
