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What Is The Shape Of Space? Is It Flat, Or Is It Bent? Is It Nicely Laid Out, Or Is It Warped And Shrunken? Is It Finite, Or Is It Infinite? Which Of The Following Does Space Resemble More: (a) A Sheet Of Paper, (b) An Endless Desert, (c) A Soap Bubble, (d) A Doughnut, (e) An Escher Drawing, (f) An Ice Cream Cone, (g) The Branches Of A Tree, Or (h) A Human Body?

Intellectually, Perspective [drawing] Is A Breakthrough, Because Here, For The First Time, The Physical Space We Live In Is Being Depicted As Ifit Were An Abstract, Mathematical Space. A Less Obvious Innovation Due To Perspective Is That Here, For The First Time, People Are Actually Drawing Pictures Of Infinities.

Our Bodies Are The Time Machine.

Some Ideas You Have To Chew On, Then Roll Them Around A Lot, Play With Them Before You Can Turn Them Into Funky Science Fiction.

Now, Being A Science Fiction Writer, When I See A Natural Principle, I Wonder If It Could Fail.