From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed May 03 16:59:54 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 03 May 2006 16:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FbRG6-0001l3-Ab for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:59:54 -0700 Received: from imo-m18.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.208]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FbRG4-0001kt-15 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:59:52 -0700 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-m18.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id d.251.a735593 (48576) for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 19:59:46 -0400 (EDT) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: <251.a735593.318a9df2@wmconnect.com> Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 19:59:46 EDT Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V5 #63 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_251.a735593.318a9df2_boundary" X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) X-archive-position: 3175 X-Approved-By: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners --part1_251.a735593.318a9df2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 4/30/2006 4:23:13 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > On 4/29/06, c k wrote: > > Maybe I have my dimensions screwed up, but I thought that they went like: > > > > 1 - point > > 2 - line > > 3 - plane > > 4 - cube > > 5 - time > > A point has no dimensions, a line has one, a plane two, a cube three. > Time can be considered as a fourth dimension in space-time, along with > the three spatial dimensions (height, width and depth). > But time should not be included in this kind of list. It is not a spatial dimension. The appropriate term for item 5 instead of time would be "tesseract", i.e., a four-dimensional hypercube. stevo --part1_251.a735593.318a9df2_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 4/30/2006 4:23:1= 3 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


On 4/29/06, c k <letscli= mbhigher@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Maybe I have my dimensions screwed up, but I thought that they went= like:
>
> 1 - point
> 2 - line
> 3 - plane
> 4 - cube
> 5 - time

A point has no dimensions, a line has one, a plane two, a cube three.
Time can be considered as a fourth dimension in space-time, along with
the three spatial dimensions (height, width and depth).


But time should not be included in this kind of list.  It is not a=20= spatial dimension.  
The appropriate term for item 5 instead of time would be "tesseract", i.= e., a four-dimensional hypercube.

stevo --part1_251.a735593.318a9df2_boundary--