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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 07:43:36 EDT
Subject: Flatland

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Alan Mole writes in part:

> The third dimension 
> in Flatland has been crushed  down to almost nothing. 

No. Flatland--the physical object--is thin. The third dimension cannot be 

thin--it is only a direction, not a physical object. Likewise, in string theory,
the physical world may be coiled in extra dimensions, but the dimensions 
themselves are not coilable; the concept just doesn't apply. It's a language 
problem. 

Robert Ettinger

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