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 #R:fortune:-21200:uiucdcs:10600006:000:498 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.