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Parallel universes cross in Flatland In 1884, Edwin Abbott wrote the novel Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions as a satire of Victorian hierarchy. He imagined a world that existed only in two dimensions, where the beings are 2D geometric figures. The physics of such a world is somewhat akin to that of modern 2D materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, which include tungsten disulfide (WS2), tungsten diselenide (WSe2), molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2). Modern 2D materials consist of single-atom layers, where electrons can move in two dim...

by Jonathan Cook / April 19th, 2021 Back in the 1880s, the mathematician and theologian Edwin Abbott tried to help us better understand our world by describing a very different one he called Flatland. Imagine a world that is not a sphere moving through space like our own planet, but more like a vast sheet of paper inhabited by conscious, flat geometric shapes. These shape-people can move forwards and backwards, and they can turn left and right. But they have no sense of up or down. The very idea of a tree, or a well, or a mountain makes no sense to them because they lack the concepts and exp...

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott. Flatland follows the adventures and enlightenment of A. Square, who lives in a strange two-dimensional society (the “Flatland” of the title) after being visited by a three-dimensional sphere. Flatland itself is a hierarchical society with strict gender and class rules. Shapes with more sides are considered superior to those with less sides; with circular males at the top of the proverbial social pyramid (or in this case, triangle) and single-lined females at the bottom. (That said, for the feminists among us, it should be note...

8 Times FUTURAMA Broke Our Brains Twitter 0 comments Futurama, the Sistine Chapel of animated television, is a show that never gets old. In fact, thanks to the series’ complex narratives and its warping of physics, it can basically be considered a Peloton for the mind. Here, for example, are eight Futurama episodes that continue to break our brains every time we watch them. Which is all the time. Fox / Comedy Central “The Prisoner of Benda,” the tenth episode of Futurama‘s sixth season, is one of the biggest brain-breakers ever. Not only for the viewers, but the writers as well; wr...

May not know she's being under paid on her first day of work and expends that period. why doesn't texas abide by federal law? attorney general greg abbott thought to exempt his state, and he won last year in the texas supreme court. abbott's clarification that he opposes additional pay equity laws comes the same day his office has a paycheck problem. the san antonio express news reported that female assistant attorneys general in abbott's office paid nearly $6,000 less than per year than male counterparts. overall, men in his office make $15,000 more than women. it is unclear if the women who ...