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For some reason I feel a VERY strong urge to write a Flatland scenario outline called "At the mountains of flatness," but have no idea what it should be about except that non-Euclidean geometry should come in somewhere. Any suggestions?

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Or they move from a locally-flat region to a region with (increasingly?) higher curvature.

When talking about Kaluza-Klein theory I often imagine a Flatlander confined to the surface of a soda straw. In reality he is a 2-dimensional being, but one dimension is closed and rolled up so tightly that he thinks he is a 1-dimensional being, able to move only forward or backward along the soda straw.

This helps to visualize the multiple rolled-up, Planck-length-curvature dimensions our universe is supposed to have in K-K theory.

(I think my analogy even made it into a Heechee novel, a while after I discussed it in Fred Pohl's kitchen...)