
        from THE COMPLEX VISION OF PHILO St JOHN                     FRIAR5
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        the  fourth  dimension  because the  world only had three dimensions.
        But the way they explained it, an  infinite  number  of  three-dimen-
        sional  worlds  can exist in a four dimensional continuum just as an
        infinite number of two dimensional surfaces can  exist  in  a  three-
        dimensional volume.  Do you think that might be it?"
             "Perhaps," the friar said.
             "I  mean, it's a  little far out, but still, it's plausible.  A
        fourth dimension could explain a lot of things.  Like  where  flying
        saucers come from.  And where they go to afterwards."
             "Except  that I don't think that the number four has much to do
        with ultimate reality," the friar said. "Nothing really important is
        arranged in fours."
             "That isn't true," Philo said. "There  are  four seasons in the
        year  and  four  cardinal  points on the compass.  Animals have four
        legs.  The fourth power relationship in  the Stefan-Boltzmann law is
        confirmed both by experiment and thermodynamic theory."
             "True," the  friar  said. "But  if  you think on it for a while,
        you will discover that things that are arranged in fours are usually
        the result of things that are arranged in twos, happening twice."
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