From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!grunwald
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Time as the Fourth Dimension - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.311
Posted: Wed Aug  4 16:26:12 1982
Received: Thu Aug  5 06:23:54 1982

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uiucdcs!grunwald    Aug  4 16:03:00 1982

The point that was made before was that just saying something is so does not
indeed make it so.

As an example, consider the Flatland world, where everything is supposed to be
two dimensional. However, we are told that the creatures which inhabit this
world can move, and that others can detect their movement. This only makes
sense if the flatland world moves through time, otherwise everyone would sit
still. Thus, perhaps Time is the first dimension, although not the first
geometric dimension.