> the Empire State Building can fit entirely inside of an n-cube with sides of 1 cm, for sufficiently large n. My sole attempt at writing an essay for my local

> the Empire State Building can fit entirely inside of an n-cube with sides of 1 cm, for sufficiently large n. My sole attempt at writing an essay for my local SF fan club, when I was in high school, was to apply this observation to explain ... err .. handwave .. how the TARDIS can be bigger on the inside, eg, as seen in The Invasion of Time. Of course, back then the TARDIS was only 68,000 tons - about the size of an aircraft carrier. (In Castrovalva, 1/4 of the TARDIS - 17,000 tons - was ejected.) Figuring 400 meters length in a (2m)^n box gives at least n = 40,000 dimensions. Nowadays it has enough mass to fracture a planet, contains a collapsing star, etc. Life was simpler in the 1980s. :)