February 21, 2013

4 dimensional being

If you take a cross section of a three dimensional object, you get a two dimensional object, right? Cross section of a sphere is a circle. A cross section of a cube can be a square or a hexagon or a triangle or a rectangle, or a lot of other shapes, depending on where you make the section and at what angle.

If you take a cross section of a four dimensional object, the result is three dimensional. I've been having this image in my mind that my cellphone is such a section. There's this monstrous four dimensional object with millions of tentacles extending off it, and every cell phone is a cross-section of one such tentacle. They connect to each other (and the rest of the telephone network) via those four dimensional tentacles back to the main body.

Which is all very fine, but it doesn't explain why my phone keeps dropping coverage.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 01:06 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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1 Because your cellphone's tentacles spend most of their time in Japan, of course. Tentacle coverage is very solid there, especially near schools.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at February 21, 2013 02:08 PM (fpXGN)

2 From Russian bash: "pointed to my dreds, asked the daughter (2 y.o.) what they are. she replied `Tentaklis!!'. proud for the baby but need to hit hubby upside the head"  (yes, wearing dreds is a fad among Russians)

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at February 21, 2013 03:01 PM (RqRa5)

3 Now I'm thinking of the Logrus, from Roger Zelazney's Amber novels. It's especially apt if for smartphones.

Posted by: Boviate at February 21, 2013 05:28 PM (ZtwQN)

4 This reminds me of Einstein's joke about radio and cats.

Posted by: pgfraering at February 21, 2013 06:06 PM (56zZx)

5 Your cellphone is a tesseract?

Posted by: Wonderduck at February 21, 2013 06:23 PM (plIxv)

6 How do you calculate the roaming charges on a pan-dimensional tentacle phone?  By the number of tentacles involved in making the connection?

Posted by: Siergen at February 21, 2013 07:38 PM (Ao4Kw)

7 I didn't need to read the phrase "roaming tentacles".

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 21, 2013 08:55 PM (+rSRq)

8 Huh.  You joke, but that actually wouldn't be a terrible way to do communications, if you have the technology/magic/whatever to link up into 4D space.  It'd be like having a corded phone where the cord is intangible.

The only real problem would be keeping the "cords" from getting physically tangled. 

Posted by: metaphysician at February 21, 2013 09:48 PM (3GCAl)

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