if you saw in a two dimensional manner, do you think you would see up/down and left/right, or up/down and forward/back, or forward/back, left/right. do you think it would matter or do you think they would be interchangeable? scientific answer if there is one or just opinion if there is none.
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I don't think you would be able too "see" anything.
also, in a 2D environment there is no forward/back, just left, right, up, down.
If you really want to get a decent explanation of not just the 2nd Dimension, but all the way to the 10th check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8Q_GQqUg6Ts
also, in a 2D environment there is no forward/back, just left, right, up, down.
If you really want to get a decent explanation of not just the 2nd Dimension, but all the way to the 10th check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8Q_GQqUg6Ts
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Given that you live in the standard 3D manner, do all of these directions make sense to you?
Oops don't forget time, another dimension. You're right in that we don't see well along the time dimension -- pretty much just 'now'.
There is a theory that all we experience is on a 2D 'brane, and we just imagine everything's in 3D but actually the real 3D (or more) universe we never glimpse.
This is something like (ok, not really like) the finger puppet theory of souls/bodies (our earthly experience is the finger puppet part). Maybe it's closer to the shadows on the cave wall theories of thinking (Ancient Greek AND Andean monks).
If I were a 2D only (not counting time) experiencing being , I think I'd prefer seeing right/left/forward/back with no up/down (living on a floor) to living on a wall (where forward and back would only reference which side R/L you were currently facing) because I think it'd seem more normal (except for the birds and the fish who do truly move in 3D most of the time). Walk like an Egyptian.
And no, I don't think most people would notice.
Oops don't forget time, another dimension. You're right in that we don't see well along the time dimension -- pretty much just 'now'.
There is a theory that all we experience is on a 2D 'brane, and we just imagine everything's in 3D but actually the real 3D (or more) universe we never glimpse.
This is something like (ok, not really like) the finger puppet theory of souls/bodies (our earthly experience is the finger puppet part). Maybe it's closer to the shadows on the cave wall theories of thinking (Ancient Greek AND Andean monks).
If I were a 2D only (not counting time) experiencing being , I think I'd prefer seeing right/left/forward/back with no up/down (living on a floor) to living on a wall (where forward and back would only reference which side R/L you were currently facing) because I think it'd seem more normal (except for the birds and the fish who do truly move in 3D most of the time). Walk like an Egyptian.
And no, I don't think most people would notice.
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Since we see in three lxwxh it would only make sense for 2d to be lxw...meaning that you woul see a line of singularity around you and you could only move front, back, right left. (You could turn too...). But no jumping.