From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fortune!wall@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Time as the Fourth Dimension Article-I.D.: fortune.212 Posted: Wed Jul 28 09:42:11 1982 Received: Sat Jul 31 06:18:51 1982 For anyone who has read the math/physics short story (non-fiction) 'Flatland', it is known that time is certainly not the forth dimension. If indeed any forth dimension exists, it would be an extension of the third dimension, much in the same way that the third is an extension of the second. Just because we cannot conceive of the direction that one expands in after length, width, and height, does not mean that it isn't there. I very strongly encourage everyone who is interested to read both Flatland (any library will have it), it is very short and very nontechnical. Not only that it is even entertaining. Someone once told me that there was a technical follow-up called Physics of Flatland. - Jim Wall