Condensed matter physics in flatland

Adventures in Flatland In everyday life we think of most objects as having three dimensions. But what would life be like in a two-dimensional world? For one thing, it would be harder to move around. We could no longer step over things but would have to move around them. In 1884 Edwin Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions , under the pseudonym, A. Square, a satirical novella about…