![]() ![]() With waning confidence in String theory and the refusal of time to divulge her secrets, stuck with the arbitrary fix of Inflation theory, embarrassed by the refusal of dark energy to show up, and dabbling in science fiction with the multiverse, the Standard Model of modern cosmology is in trouble. Roger Penrose, Lee Smolin and many others write that we stand on the brink of a new paradigm. ![]() ![]() In a completely original treatment, William Brown takes the simplicity of Abbott’s structure to another level by nailing down a set of universal principles and delving into the way the characters perceive their world.Ĭould such a structure undergird our world? Mathematicians and physicists such as Carl Sagan, Michio Kaku, Ian Stewart and Stephen Hawking have all used the amiable inhabitants of 3D Spaceland, 2D Flatland and 1D Lineland from EA Abbott’s ‘Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions’ to show how geometric dimensions build and interact. In 1884 an English country schoolmaster wrote a book which still enthrals today. ![]()
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