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Letter: Imagine that

Published 30 December 2014

From John Knutson

I thoroughly enjoyed Anil Ananthaswamy’s article on how to think about higher dimensions (13 December 2014, p 32).

I’m not a mathematician, but maybe extra dimensions are like imaginary numbers – not real, but necessary for things to work.
Winchester, Hampshire, UK

Issue no. 3002 published 3 January 2015

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