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Indeed. The usual layman example is that a string has two dimensions when you're close enough to it that it resembles a cylinder, but only one when you zoom out
by Arnavion 8y ago
Indeed. The usual layman example is that a string has two dimensions when you're close enough to it that it resembles a cylinder, but only one when you zoom out far enough that it becomes a line.
- codethief 8y agoIt took me second to realize that you're talking about actual real-life strings, not the strings from string theory which are precisely 1-dimensional. :)