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From: "Walter Guinon" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: The flat earth notion
> While we laugh at the dimensional chauvinists of yester year who believed
the
> Earth was flat, how many of us are comfortable with our three dimensional
space
> being curved and distorted rather than flat?
I think this is a good point. We assume everyone else is like us, with the
benefit of a Western education, but really we are an elite minority. And
should not feel superior, my guess is that most of us would struggle to
comprehend the new worlds opened up by Einstein and others, just as people
who imagine the world is flat because it is so self evident would struggle
(and did) to comprehend the new worlds opened up by Galileo and others. Its
not a question of intelligence, 'primitive' people are just as clever, and
demonstrate this with 'intuitive' skills so well developed that they seem
like magic to us.
"The universe is not only stranger than you think, its stranger than you can
imagine" (or words to that effect).
