40-Tude wrote:
slowguy wrote:
40-Tude wrote:
ironclm wrote:
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Not sure I like the Green category much. Three of them are geometric or dimensional terms, and then one is a state of matter.
I was thinking the same but nothing else seemed to fit so I took a (correct) guess.
Made sense to me. I didn't see solid as in solid-liquid-gas, but as a geometric object.
I put plane and file together earlier, looking for woodworking tools.
Yeah, I get what they were going for, but a three dimensional object isn't necessarily solid.
Thinking about it more ...
Solids can also be drawn/shown in 2-D.
And a plane could be 3-D. As in a line graph with x, y, axes as 2d, and a 3rd-axis (z) puts a planar surface into it.
Yeah, weak category.
What they've never done, is connect 4 words together into a phrase.... I remember they had sponge, bob, square, pants ... which would've been a perfect answer. But wasn't the connection.
So, I think technically (a mathematician or physicist could correct me):
1 point has zero dimension.
2 points create a line which is in 1 dimension (length)
3 points create a plane which has 2 dimensions (length and width)
If you add a 4th point not on the original plane, then you get three dimensions (length, width and height)
It's been awhile, and I'm sure this is just middle school level math/science, so there are surely all sorts of multidimensional hyperplane constructs, but I doubt that's what Connections is getting at.
Slowguy
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