Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Patrick's Response

The mobius strip is a theoretical one sided object however in reality it is three dimensional. In order for me to picture the situation I simply thought of a true one dimensional object; a line. If a hole is poked through the center of a one sided object where would the other side go? I believe that this is impossible to even imagine because in order to poke a hole through a 1D object you would have to be in either 2 or 3 dimensions in order to lift the pin above the paper and poke through it. Because it is impossible to do this I would say that a one sided object would not only be impossible to obtain but also equally impossible to poke a hole in because one dimension is one dimension. The hole wouldn't exist because nobody would be able to make a hole in a true one dimensional object.

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