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Feynman's also the one quoted as playing with the idea of what it would be like if 3 + 1 spacetime was instead 2 + 2 (i.e. 2-D space, 2-D time).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_time

I always love to throw this one at my friends once we get started talking about numbers/dimensions/philosophy.


Wikipedia has a nice summary on the arguments as to whether 3+1 is "privileged" in some sense:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime#Privileged_character_...




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