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Any smooth connected one-dimensional manifold is diffeomorphic to either the circle or an interval of real numbers. The discussion illustrates the process of rotating a line segment into higher dimensions, demonstrating that as the number of dimensions approaches infinity, the resulting structure converges to a single point. This concept is pivotal in understanding the nature of infinite-dimensional spaces and their implications in theoretical physics.

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Any smooth connected 1 dimensional manifold is diffeomorphic either to the circle, or to some interval of real numbers.

Take a line segment of length 1. It is one dimensional.

A-------B

Find the midpoint of the line segment and rotate it into 2 dimensions

A
|
|
|------B


Each leg is 1/2

Rotate into 3 dimensions, and each leg is 1/3

A
|
|
|------C
|
|
B



rotate into N dimensions and each leg is 1/N

Continue this process as a limit

N---->oo

By the above process, an infinite dimensional universe is a point.
 
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Originally posted by Russell E. Rierson
Any smooth connected 1 dimensional manifold is diffeomorphic either to the circle, or to some interval of real numbers.

Take a line segment of length 1. It is one dimensional.

A-------B

Find the midpoint of the line segment and rotate it into 2 dimensions

A
|
|
|------B


Each leg is 1/2

Rotate into 3 dimensions, and each leg is 1/3

A
|
|
|------C
|
|
B



rotate into N dimensions and each leg is 1/N

Continue this process as a limit

N---->oo

By the above process, an infinite dimensional universe is a point.








A
I
I
I
D------I------B
I
I
I
I
C

So this is four-dimenisional?..how do you account for the fact there is only 26 letters in the alphabet?

The problem is that a Four dimensional space has inner products made from A+B..A Rotation does not constitute a added Dimension?
 

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