The Amazing Tight Sheet Walker!

[Jay]

I was thinking of how there seems to be a lot of mention of things we can't do because we aren't tetronians. But there are some things relatively easy for us to do that would be very difficult for the average tetranian to do.

For example, just as it takes great skill to walk on a tightrope for us, it would take a great deal of skill for a tetronian to walk on a "tight sheet" or 2-d plane.

I wonder if this means balance is generally harder in the dimensions. I mean, bionians walk on lines all the time, and and a unian (1d guy) would have no trouble balancing on a point.

[alkaline]

well, the higher the dimension, the more directions you can fall, so balance is harder the higher the dimension.

[sup2069]

Nice topic Jay

I hadnt thought of this idea. Fred would be laughing at bob for trying to walk a tight rope, Bob would be laughing at Emily for trying to walk on a sheet of paper.


EDIT: I meant *sheet of rope*

Talk about reverse teasing order.

[Keiji]

Then again, Bob would just tear the paper

But this is interesting though.

[Myriaract]

But rope is 3D (but looks 1D), so Fred would fall through it!

[Keiji]

Wow, this topic is old.

I wonder which would be easier: us walking on a rope, or a tetronian walking on a sheet. In both cases there are only two directions to fall but the latter has two dimensions to move in whereas we only have one.

It suggests to me that they're better off...

[papernuke]

But it would be harder to balance wouldnt it? because we equalize our center of gravity by waving our two arms in the two directions perpendicular to the rope like idiots. But the tetronian would have to swing however many arms it has in 4 directions to balance.

[Keiji]

No, it'd be easier to balance if they had more arms to move.

[papernuke]

But if they had more arms to move, then it would be harder to balance . because you would have to control like.. two more arms.

[Keiji]

But they would have to control more limbs no matter what they were doing - it isn't something specific to walking tightsheets.

[wendy]

I really can't see the advantage of tight-hedrix-walking, over tight-latrix.

Firstly, note that the activity is essentially to get from A to B, using the minimalist amount of solid. This would still be a latrix, all be it with some hedrous cross section.

A path is a kind of thick line from A to B, for which the width section is space divided by (height * forward), ie n-2. with a fairly large latrous section going from A to B.

A plank and thence a tightrope is just progressively thinner paths, ie the across-section becomes progressively smaller. So the effect would be mich more interesting and captivating if the across-section is minimal, and the suspension matches the journey: a latrid affair.

W

[quickfur]

Perhaps it wouldn't be too much harder for a 4D being to walk a "tight sheet" than for us to walk a tightrope... but I'd imagine it would be much harder for a 4D being to walk a tightrope (think, a thin spherindrical cord). It'd be like us trying to balance on point.

Now imagine a 5D person trying to walk a tightrope... I don't think we have anything to compare it to in our space. (It'd be like a 4D being trying to balance on a point.)

[DefyGravity]

According to my theory their point in space would be all the gravity for a 4D person to balance perfectly because their point is a sphere to us. If you think about Fred and his living he actually walks on a tight rope for a living without having left and right to fall he is able to keep perfect balance. I'm not sure if a 1D being could actually exist but I will keep my mind open for the time being. When you add in the forth dimension which many people still don't get the grasp of you allow in my theory less ways to fall. Since a 4D being could move in 3Directions with ease it would be able to walk around a ball with absolutely no problems. But in my theory there is no solid objects in a 4D Universe because you cannot move freely through any solid objects so .. I don't think that 4D Beings even exist only fluids, gas, and zero-gravity space.