On 16, Jan 2007, at 5:45 PM, Don Dailey wrote:

For instance if there existed 2 dimensional beings, we could not show
them 3 dimensional objects,

The answers to this are in "Flatland: A romance of many dimensions" a nice short book by E.A. Abbott.

just reflections of them

slices

and any of our
objects would be infinitely large to them.

No, they would only be aware of the slice that intersects their world. It would still have finite extent in their world.

  If we could build
2 dimensional computers, we could stack any number of them
on top of each other

Which is essentially what we really do ...

and they would not take up any extra space,  no?

No.



Cheers,
David





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