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B1 Intermediate English 7:24 Educational

Cosmos - Carl Sagan - 4th Dimension

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B1

CEFR Level

5/10

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Subtitles (154 segments)

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in discussing the large scale structure

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of the cosmos astronomers sometimes say

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that space is

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curved or that the universe is finite

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but

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unbounded whatever are they talking

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about let's imagine that we are

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perfectly flat I mean absolutely flat

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and that we live appropriately enough in

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a flat land a

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land designed and named by Edwin Abbott

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a Shakespearean scholar who lived in

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Victoria in England everybody in

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flatland is of course exceptionally flat

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we have squares circles triangles and we

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all Scurry about and we can go into our

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houses and do our flat business now

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we have width and length but no height

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at at all now these little cutouts have

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some little height but let's ignore that

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let's imagine that these are absolutely

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flat that being the case we know us

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Flatlanders about left right and we know

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about forward back but we have never

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heard of up down let us imagine that

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into flatland hovering above it comes a

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strange three-dimensional creature which

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oddly enough looks like an apple and the

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three-dimensional creature sees an

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attractive congenial looking Square

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watches it enter its house and decides

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