{"id":2731,"date":"2020-09-15T08:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T15:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2020-08-16T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T17:31:01","slug":"473-flatlandish-or-a-willy-in-four-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/473-flatlandish-or-a-willy-in-four-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"473 &#8211; Flatlandish&#8230; or A Willy In Four Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flatlandish.png\" alt=\"Willy poking... A panel from Weird Science #7, February 1951\" class=\"wp-image-2732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flatlandish.png 614w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flatlandish-300x279.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><figcaption>Willy poking&#8230; A panel from Weird Science #7, February 1951<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Weird Science #7 (February 1951) included the story &#8220;It was the Monster from the Fourth Dimension&#8221;.  In it, a farmer, who just happens to have a brilliant scientist for a brother who can explain things to him and us, encounters a four-dimensional being, as a floating, morphing pink blob.  The scientist goes on to explain the concept of how we might perceive things from higher spatial dimensions that was so well-explored and well-explained in 1884&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatland\">Flatland<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the pink blob is &#8220;pinned&#8221; to the three-dimensional realm by a torpedo and some chains, Willy, the scientist-brother, uses a machine to bring dynamite into the fourth-dimensional realm to destroy the creature.  Violence solves all problems!  When fourth-dimensional Willy returns he is dead&#8230; and horrified:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fourth-dimensional-willy.png\" alt=\"What did Willy see?  Another panel from Weird Science #7, February 1951\" class=\"wp-image-2733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fourth-dimensional-willy.png 680w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/fourth-dimensional-willy-300x258.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><figcaption>What did Willy see?  Another panel from Weird Science #7, February 1951<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird Science #7 (February 1951) included the story &#8220;It was the Monster from the Fourth Dimension&#8221;. In it, a farmer, who just happens to have a brilliant scientist for a brother who can explain things to him and us, encounters a four-dimensional being, as a floating, morphing pink blob. The scientist goes on to explain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[476,428,350,20],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-476","tag-dimensional-travel","tag-ec","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2738,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions\/2738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}