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Stanley Huang wrote:Is the earth round? This depends on the location where you observe. It is true that the earth is flat, looking at here on earth, the earth is flat.

But looking at it from outer space, the earth is round. Which one is correct?

Both are correct? The earth is flat if you look at it on earth and the earth is round if you look at it from outer space.

I understand what you're attempting to illustrate but a different appearance or change in perspective of an object doesn't physically add anything new to the object and doesn't change it's inherent characteristics. While the Earth appears flat while on the Earth and appears round from space, it is in fact still round. We are not able to look at the Earth in any other way so it remains round to any perspective we can achieve.

Let's no talk about what you are saying right now. But what I am saying before is that looking at things from different locations will result in different dimensions. So there are infinity dimensions because there are so many different ways of looking at a thing. And I said that different appearances of a thing may just be different dimensions of one thing. Since there are so many, this makes infinity dimensions possible.

Do you understand?