A 4ªDimensão Uma proposta de sequela para Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions de Edwin Abbott
(…)I began to approach the Stranger with the intention of taking a nearer view and of bidding him be seated : but his appearance struck me dumb and motionless with astonishment . Without the slightest symptoms of angularity he nevertheless varied every instant with gradations of size and brightness scarcely possible for any Figure within the scope of my experience . (…) APARIÇÃO DA ESFERA
APARIÇÃO DA ESFERA DA PRESPETIVA DO QUADRADO Stranger. Pooh! what do you know of Space? Define Space. I. Space, my Lord, is height and breadth indefinitely prolonged. Stranger. Exactly: you see you do not even know what Space is. You think it is of Two Dimensions only; but I have come to announce to you a Third—height, breadth, and length.
A 4ª Dimensão (…) My Lord, your own wisdom has taught me to aspire to One even more great , more beautiful , and more closely approximate to Perfection than yourself . As you yourself , superior to all Flatland forms , combine many Circles in One , so doubtless there is One above you who combines many Spheres in One Supreme Existence , surpassing even the Solids of Spaceland . And even as we , who are now in Space , look down on Flatland and see the insides of all things , so of a certainty there is yet above us some higher , purer region , whither thou dost surely purpose to lead me.(…)
Se escrevêssemos uma sequela do livro " Flatland " em que a Esfera é visitada por uma esfera que habita na 4ª Dimensão, qual seria a representação da esfera da 4ª Dimensão vista da perspetiva da esfera da terceira dimensão (de Spaceland )?