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Was there a practical reason for the restrictions on tight bends and creases?

sigh You'll understand when you're building biological spaceships: you see, the inversion of n-spheres under those conditions is the simplest workable model for how evolutionary phenomena interact with each other.

The inversion of an n-sphere of dimension 3 is representative of the evolution in just one layer of a system. After you discover the generalization of inversion across n-space in 2072, it will just take one ambitious biologists to apply it to genetic data, and generalize to most of the evolutionary phenomena around you: memes and cultures. By 2103, Human Directive 72 will be achieved, and all children under the age of four will be able to conceive of the basic geometries of infinite-dimensional topological models.



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