Comment on 4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 week agoI get what you are saying, but it is not wrong. It is not even a simplification. The surface of any object is 2D, and the surface of a flat object is the simplest form of a 2D coordinate system.
TheV2@programming.dev 1 week ago
What I meant is that some people portray the thin flat object itself as a 2D object, e.g. a piece of paper opposed to a box. I do understand that it’s intuitive to associate the absence of a dimension with a value close to 0 for it and vice versa, because that’s how we visualize it.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I haven’t heard anyone actually claiming that a piece of paper has zero thickness before.