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How can matter be one-dimensional?

Matter is usually 3 dimensional. If it's one, would it be a string, as in string theory? 

Posted - October 4, 2016
Tag : #Physics

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  • 5835
    String theory is eight dimensions, and has been expanded to other numbers. Nobody has tried to explain to me what that means. I get a feeling that it doesn't mean anything, just a sort of mental juggling act.
      October 4, 2016 5:47 PM MDT
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  • There was a book written in the 1800s by an Englishman about living in a two dimensional world ...  Quite an advanced concept for the time ...I think it was called flatworld or similar .. I can't conceive of a one dimensional object ... Unless it was that guy I went out with once!
      October 4, 2016 7:06 PM MDT
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  • What about zero dimensional; just doesn't matter.
    I know, I know, couldn't resist.
      October 4, 2016 7:16 PM MDT
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  • Mathematically a point is a zero dimension object .. :)
      October 4, 2016 8:17 PM MDT
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  • Mathematics?!
      October 4, 2016 8:21 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    Magnets!
      October 4, 2016 9:02 PM MDT
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