Re: Marathon for Win95

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From: cste... Christopher Stetson
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:00

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In article <45hq1p$p...@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, Kai Koehler <koehler> wrote:

: 5-dimensional means that you would need 5 real numbers to describe the
position
: of a point relative to a nearby point. Thus this overlapping effect is neither
: 4D nor 5D.
: Don't tell me about time as a fouth dimension, a marathon level doesn't change
: with time.

Classically, if the fourth dimension is time (the vector "out" from a 3
dimensional point) then motion approaching c is the 5 dimension (changing
time). This is not an option in the current Marathon Physics model. ;-)

Chris

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From: cste...@panix.com (Christopher Stetson)
Subject: Re: Marathon for Win95
Date: 1995/10/12
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