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**Video 2. Dr Quantum - Flatland**
I. Before watching the video: 1. What do you think the video will be about? 2. What do you think "flatland" means?

Image taken from. [] on Aug 12th, 2009 II. Now click on the following link and watch the video. While watching, please answer the following questions: []

Who are the main characters in the video? What's the difference between the worlds in which the characters live in? What does Dr. Quantum decide to do? What does this cause to the other character?

III. After watching the video, please answer these questions. How many dimensions do you know? Please mention them and define them. Would you like to live in a two dimensional world? Why?


 * ANSWERS:**

I. 1. I think it might be about a book i read about 6 months ago: Flatland. It is a world where everything is flat and geometric. It a bit strange and rare, but I did like the idea and the way the author presents his ideas about that world. Maybe this video will show us some of the ideas he wrote on his book.

2. Flatland, in Abbot's book, is a different world where everything is flat and two-dimensional. That's also what I think it might be.

II. -Dr. Quantum, who is also the narrator, and Little Circle. -The world in which Dr. Quantum lives is three-dimensional and Little Circle's world is two-dimensional. -Dr. Quantum decides to show Little Circle the up and down, in other words: the third dimension. -When Little Circle gets into the real three-dimensional world, it becomes a happy sphere.

III. -I know three dimensions in real life, but in math I have studied n-dimensions when we talk about matrix. What I call the real three-dimensions are length, width and depth. In this story, Little Circle lives in a world where there is no depth, but only length and width; that is why it is only a circle and not a sphere. -No, I would not like to live in a two-dimensional world. First of all, it would limit my visibility in my surroundings too much. Then, everyone would be simple lines and you can't recognize them without talking. Also, you might want to consider that you would bump a lot with the walls of your strange two-dimensional world.