Is That Legal?

I hear NC Central is going to a 27 Dimensional String Theory based program.

hrm. i'm skeptical of UNC's law-physics collaboration. back at our alma mater, eric, the 4th dimension is part of the mathematics program, not physics. (math 8 with banchoff, to be precise.)

:-)

I hope you'll bring Tom Banchoff in on that. I remember well when he generated a hypercube -- 4-D cube -- on the Brown mainframe and then, while I watched through the goggles and prisms that made it 3-D, rotated it. I think my optic nerves twisted around each other.

I'm sorry, but I don't think a 4-d law program is such a good idea. IIRC, access to the fourth dimension permits time travel. How long will it be before desperate students start taking advantage of that by rewriting statutes and opinions to fit the answers they gave on the test? If you think interpreting precedents is tough now, just wait until the first year class gets through with them.

Ha, Tom Banchoff seems to have made quite an impression on those who knew him. Especially considering that Jenny and I are probably a couple of decades apart -- I was at Brown 63..73, physics and then CS.

awww, bob, what's two, three decades between fellow brunonians?

banchoff may have become odder as time went by, though. his obsession with a-squared (edwin abbott abbott) 's flatland was astonishing.

So they're going to transform their law program into a 3-D program, we're already in 4-D (unless you go with the weird theories that make my brain hurt). So, what do they lose? Length? Width? Height? Time?

Will that extra bit of space allow out of staters a better shot of getting in? I'm hoping this four-dimensional deal can be of good use to all.