Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin A. Abbott

Amazon Classics

2017

112 páginas

3h 44m

ISBN-10: B074J77XWL

Flatland is populated by Squares, Triangles, Circles, and Lines, all of which are strictly divided by class and gender. However, our narrator, A Square, living a practical life in this two-dimensional universe, dreams of other worlds. Perhaps A Sphere, a figure from a three-dimensional realm, can help drive home the point. But, as A Square soon discovers, educating Flatland about the shapes of things to come proves to be a dangerous infraction.

Published in 1884, Abbott’s intricately imaginative novella, which became a classic in the era of Einstein, was a skewering of social hierarchy that inspired Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and anyone who dared to think—literally—outside the box.

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Upward, not Northward

Would it be amusing for one being to contemplate more than our usual three dimensions reality conjecture? Confined to a limited dimensionality, Abbott invite us to stretch our imagination in a multidimensional romance, when suddenly a visitor from the third dimension manifests itself in the two dimensional world, the Flatland.
If somehow we could behold the fourth dimension and expand our scope of reality, the inferred conjecture when in comparison that we so vainly try to synthesize and always end up with analogies could reveal itself poor, shadowy and not solid at all. Many eyes would indicate incredulity, calling it madness, hell, tricks by enchanters, when it’s just knowledge.
To paint a picture of a lesser dimension it’s quite easy when you live in a higher one, but when you invert the papers, it is by no means a simple matter. We can only speculate a direction in which we cannot look and even granting the facts, each individual explain them in different ways.
Hungry for empirical truths, the facts not yet discovered before us could be beneficial to our understanding. In a not so distant future, the exponencial terminal points conceit should not limit or spread fear in our miserable race. It should bring enlightenment and a greater hunger, a rebel spirit for the objective truth.

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