Edwin Abbott's Flatland

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The fiction book Flatland written Edwin A, Abbott explains his new view of the dimension world using fiction characters and what they see and how their vision felt as. It gives me a how time to understand this book because I thought this is a non-fiction book. This gives reader a different view at different dimensions. People lives in one dimensions see things differently than people who lived in two dimensional and four dimensions. I understand Edwin is trying to create a wild theory on different dimension that we have never experienced yet. The argument between different dimensions made the story more interesting to children who don’t get interested with boring physic books. In the one-dimensional world, the one who can move around are named God, because he can suddenly appear and suddenly disappear in the two-dimensional world. A person that can move up and down the people of God, because he can suddenly appear and suddenly disappear (move above or below the plane, Flatland people would not see you); then in our three-dimensional world can suddenly appear or disappearance of four-dimensional world is God or people? Abbott, the famous British theologian and novelist, sci-fi novel "Flatland" become popular and made into a move.
At 1884, he published "Flatland" which brought
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I'm glad because of Einstein's theory of relativity, human have begun to study further the broader unified theory, superstring theory has been extended to the human field of vision 10 dimensions, although a long way off, or people thinking beyond the limitations in front of the 3-dimensional, to the more complex space

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