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Re: Conlangs of mischief (Was: Re: I'm back!)

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Friday, September 24, 2004, 1:33
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:08:51PM +0000, Robert Hill wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 23 September 2004 23:41, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > > > Keep 'em comin'! ;-) > > Beh, 4d conworlds are confusing enough for me, Teoh. Just throw a > hypersphere.
[...] (Un)fortunately, the Ferochromon is not a 4D conworld. Actually, I don't even know what to call it... it has several parts to it, the tamest of which are the 3 sections that the Ebisédi live in, which are approximately 3D Euclidean spaces. But even here, there are some phenomena that can only happen if it's actually more than 3D. In other words, unlike the well-behaved N-dimensional Euclidean spaces, the Ferochromon is a very exotic, unusual place. It's not even non-Euclidean space in the conventional sense (hyperbolic, parabolic, spherical, etc.); it's a place where Terran geometrical methods are only crude approximations. I'd write more here, but this is grossly OT, so I won't continue except off-list, and only if people are actually interested enough in this crazy stuff to ask me. T -- English has the lovely word "defenestrate", meaning "to execute by throwing someone out a window", or more recently "to remove Windows from a computer and replace it with something useful". :-) -- John Cowan