Flatland

Flatland Edwin A. Abbott starts his book Flatland with a very dry description of the figures in Flatland. This sets the reader up for the rest of the book, and quite simply, the rules of this foreign planet. The book is set in a world of only two dimensions, a flat land in you will. All shapes are seen as straight lines, this hardship is explained further in the later parts of the novel. Houses …

…available to them. We learn from experience, and for many it is hard to see abstract ideas. Ideas such as a 4th dimension. "Up-ward, not northward" even that can not be translated into another dimension. Flatlanders explored all directions, North, South, East, and West. We can do that, and explore up and down. Flatlanders could not contemplate a 3rd dimension, nor have it explained to them. Likewise, describing a 4th dimension would be as difficult.