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Goes to show how poorly adapted our intuition is in manipulating space across dimensions. Its scary to think about how much ground breaking science is still lef
by thegabez 9y ago
Goes to show how poorly adapted our intuition is in manipulating space across dimensions. Its scary to think about how much ground breaking science is still left uncovered because of this blindspot.
- tw1010 9y agoWhile you're definitely onto something, I think it's also worth pointing out that a lot of the scientists that really revolutionized their field were those who excelled at either intuitively or explicitly tackling the areas where human intuition was especially likely of doing poorly on (which in many cases acts as a good proxy for assumptions that other scientists have, in an unknown unknown sense, failed to question).
- thegabez 9y ago100% - This would make for an exciting opening lecture for any scientific educator.
- joenathanone 9y agoThe only thing I found surprising about this was that you were expected not to have known how it worked. It's the same sort of thing as trying to move a couch and having to angle it to fit it through a door, it's how 3D space works.
- 2bitencryption 9y agoyou're so smart!
- itg 9y agoI think the equivalent would be a door that is too small now matter what angle the couch is in. The only way to get it through would be to "stretch" the door in 4-d space and collapse it back into 3-d to allow the couch through.
- simooooo 9y agoThank you for using your intelligence to give us such insight