Geography is four-dimensional (sive.rs)

20 points by galfarragem 2 hours ago

6 comments:

by admiralrohan 9 minutes ago

Same is true for humans too. About their personality. Constantly changing and you will never meet the same person twice in that sense.

by soco 36 minutes ago

I get the latitude, longitude, and they added time. But what was the fourth dimension? Or third rather, because the post assumption is that time was the fourth added.

by deweller 32 minutes ago

Altitude is the third dimension, but I presume you knew that.

"Geography is three dimensional" doesn't correctly communicate the time dimension.

by soco 20 minutes ago

Hmm I thought that, but we don't really live in a 3D world (or use the altitude parameter in a very meaningful way in life) so I wondered whether there's something else I was missing.

by pella an hour ago

Every geography has a timestamp.

by roywiggins 18 minutes ago

โ€œThe past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.โ€

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