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Post by Judge Sam on Jul 20, 2009 19:00:33 GMT -5
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Post by Judge Sam on Jul 20, 2009 19:05:25 GMT -5
Jenya was having trouble moving around in her new 2-dimensional world. It was kind of like walking around a garden maze blind – you couldn’t really tell where you were going until you felt your way around the corner.
When walking around one of those corners Jenya bumped into Levi. (Thankfully the circle bumped into the hexagon side-first so everyone was safe.) The two started talking about their new world.
“You know the one thing that really makes me wonder,” Levi started. “Is how people in this 2-dimensional world eat. Take Kirsten for instance. She looks like Pac-Man. If she were to actually eat one of those pac-man dots through her mouth, where would the dot go?
Pretend she has a full set of intestines starting from her mouth and ending at her rectum. That means she has a hollow 2-dimensional tube that goes straight through her body. This tube would effectively cut her completely in half!”
“That’s true Levi, however, that leads us to a more important question,” Jenya said. “How does she poop??”
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Post by Judge Sam on Jul 20, 2009 19:10:08 GMT -5
Meanwhile, poopless Pac-Woman Kirsten was about to demonstrate the finer points of two-dimensional defecation when… the baseball-bat smack boomed throughout the world as another dimensional shift took place.
“Where could we possibly be now?!?” shrieked Pete, his eyes closed, frightened of opening them to see what crazy world he would experience next.
“Guess, ya moron.”
Pete opened his eyes and saw --- the regular ole baseball field. Plain old three dimensions. Everything back to normal.
“Oh.” Pete said. He didn’t know how to feel.
“Well I for one am glad that’s over with!” exclaimed Jason. “I have enough trouble making my way around in three dimensions without bumping into things, let alone the crazy worlds we just went through.”
“Yeah, I guess so.” Levi said, looking around him at the others. Jason, Pete, himself, Kirsten… he knew Tiberius was trapped in 1-dimensional land, but where was Jenya?
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Post by Judge Sam on Jul 20, 2009 19:14:58 GMT -5
“Jenya is still trapped in flatland!”
It was true, there was circle Jenya, still her two-dimensional self living on her flat piece of paper. But as the others looked down on her, something looked different from this perspective. Something strange.
“Oh my god, we can see her insides! Her brain! Her intestines!”
Yes, as I’m sure you know, when you draw a square on a piece of paper you are able to see both the inside of the square and of course the outside of the square at the same time. From their perspective in 2-d land, of course, all anyone could see was the outside of someone’s body. But from this three dimensional vantage point they could see Kirsten’s beating 2-d heart and throbbing 2-d lungs.
“Ew.”
Additionally, as three of the baseball fans were about to find out, a similar property exists in the fourth dimension. From the fourth dimension looking into our world, you can see the entirety of the inside of people’s bodies. Just as if it they were all laid out opened up on an autopsy table…
Thwack.
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Post by Judge Sam on Jul 20, 2009 19:20:08 GMT -5
Levi, Pete, and Kirsten found themselves in the fourth dimension. Just one short simple sidestep away from the entire known 3-d universe.
Levi knew the first thing he wanted to do. He grabbed a bottle of wine and, without opening it in any way, drank all of it down.
After that, he skipped over to a UFO meeting of crackpots in Roswell, New Mexico. Tapping into 3-d space with his 4-d finger much like Georgia did to 1-dimensional Tiberius, he sent the kooks screaming in all three directions. All these 3-d people saw was an instantly-appearing and disappearing, constantly growing, shifting, and rotating, three dimensional figure that popped in and out of existence.
It’s hard to imagine the fourth dimension, and many people explain it better than I do. The simplest way is probably to imagine a square. Now put together a cube which has 6 square faces. A tesseract (a 4-d cube) has 8 cube ‘faces’ instead of squares surrounding it.
This video explains it very well. I’d skip chapter 1. Start on 2 if you want the 2-d to 3-d analogue, or start on 3 if you want to see a representation the 4-d stuff without a fuller explanation. Here is a table of contents which helps a lot. If you want something more entertaining, you could watch Flatland the Movie or read the 1884 novella it was based on.
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Post by Judge Sam on Jul 20, 2009 19:26:02 GMT -5
But those three weren’t the only denizens of the fourth dimension.  A 600-cell figure appeared and began to chase down one of the villagers. This menacing figure, with 1,200 faces, undulated and rotated through the mysterious fourth dimension, chasing someone relentlessly, until they were captured and taken to the zero-th dimension for all eternity…
Georgia has been fired and Imprisoned by the Spies.
You will never see her again. [/b][/center] Georgia : please post Final Words in your confessional immediately. Judge Sam: “One of the main reasons I run these games is to see new things happen. New twists, new people, new gameplay moves and new dramatic situations – I thrive on new experiences. And even in all the games I’ve seen I’ve never seen something as unique, different, and exciting as the way you played the game Georgia.  You are astute, very intelligent, relentless, to-the-point, and imaginative in a way I’ve never seen before and that made each Episode of following along with your play a delightful experience. Few people in the game have played as intensely and continuously as you did from start to finish and for that I am extremely appreciative. Your extensively updated confessionals were a delight to read, several times a day I would visit your forum to get the latest updates. Your maverick gameplan and determined way of playing the game breathed fresh air into the most routine of rounds. Thank you for giving so much to the game and I really hope you enjoyed playing. =) I’ll see ya in the loser’s lounge!” Judge Sam: “And so ends our three-part dimensional story as Georgia takes her leave after all these months of Spy hunting. During her time in the game she provided you with treasure troves of evidence – hopefully you absorbed and considered her thoughts and words carefully. She is able to help you out no more as she goes to join the 24 other eliminated players. Exile #12 will be live at 9:00 PM CDT Wednesday night, please vote before then. Fail to capture a Spy and you will have used up all your second chances and be in an Exile or End situation where one wrong guess equals game over. As the stakes rise higher and higher, fewer of you having voting power, making each and every vote that much more crucial. Recall that you will vote for two different players ideally both Spies, at the next Exile. One player you will assign three points; the other, two points. Read the stickied Episode #12 voting shift thread in the Burg if you have more questions. If you are a citizen, then 2 out of the other 6 players are Spies. That’s a third. Here’s hoping you can pin em down! Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
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Post by DC on Jul 21, 2009 0:42:48 GMT -5
Sam, LOL, what's with all the 4th dimension stuff? I haven't thought about any of this since I read "Flatland" in 9th grade. Missing math much?  |
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