Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
nautil.us
Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
1–10 of 89 posts
Re: Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
#2Do not skip the comments on this post. Priceless.
Re: Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
#3Do not skip the comments on this post. Priceless.
Thanks, I read the post but missed the comments first time.
Re: Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
#4Do not skip the comments on this post. Priceless.
Yes, great comments, I'd pay to see the deleted one though, based on the replies.
Re: Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
#5I'm still wondering why space is 3-dimensional.
Re: Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
#6I'm still wondering why space is 3-dimensional.
Doesn't need to be, but observations constrain extra spacial dimensions to be compact and under ~1mm in size.
Re: Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
#7I'm still wondering why space is 3-dimensional.
Because it's not 2-dimensional?
/s ;-)
Re: Why Understanding Space Is So Hard
#8Julian Barbour's The Discovery of Dynamics goes into great detail on absolute vs. relative pre-Einstein. His The End of Time reviews the ideas at a more popular level and continues the story into the 20th C.