 | Henry Parker Manning - 1921 - 320 lapas
...dimension" arose. We have shown how the efforts of mankind to tear himself away from the numbers i, 2, and 3 and to generalize have given rise to two...physical experience includes only the three-dimensional. XIV. THE TRUE AND FALSE, IN THE THEORY OF FOUR DIMENSIONS. BY "PERGE DECET" (PERCY WILCOX GUMAER, URBANA,... | |
 | 1897 - 718 lapas
...far its actions have reminded me of the complaint of our old friend Omar Khayyam: Myself, when I was young, did eagerly frequent Doctor and saint, and...ever more came out By the same door where in I went. So much for our public duties. We must, for ourselves, recognize consumption in its early stages, for... | |
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... space, just as a line lies in a plane, or a plane lies in three-dimensional space. Just why one should stop at four dimensions is not made clear. In a brief way we have then shown how the term "fourth dimension" arose. We have shown how the efforts... 