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Suddenly, a shadow fell over him—not a shadow cast by the sun, but a feeling of thickness . For a split second, Yendred’s perception tilted. He saw the "inside" of his own stomach, the internal gears of his watch, and the solid hearts of the mountains all at once. He saw the Kaaba-like square building at the world’s peak not as a line, but as a shape with four sides visible simultaneously.
To understand the significance of Dewdney’s work, one must first understand the shadow cast by Edwin A. Abbott’s 1884 novella, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions . Abbott’s book is a classic of mathematical fiction, introducing readers to a world of two-dimensional shapes. However, Abbott’s primary goal was social satire and mathematical analogy, not scientific realism. the planiverse pdf
