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where everything pretends to be one dimension thinner than it really is
means The outermost layer or face of something — the boundary where an object meets the world, and what you see before you look any deeper.
from From French surface, built by stitching Latin super- ("above, over") onto face ("face"), itself from Latin facies. So a surface is literally an "over-face": the face laid over the top of a thing — a 17th-century coinage modeled on Latin superficies, which carried the same idea.
- water trick
- surface tension lets bugs walk on ponds
- all skin
- a soap bubble is almost entirely surface, no inside
- hidden vastness
- your lungs' surface area rivals a tennis court
- deep myth
- most icebergs show only a tenth of themselves
- math limit
- a fractal's surface can be infinitely long, finite area
mount everest north face — 1953 first ascent, 8,848m vertical rock and ice surface in nepal/tibet
mariana trench challenger deep — deepest ocean floor surface on earth at 10,994m depth, pacific ocean
atacama desert — driest exposed earth surface, chile, 1mm annual rainfall in some areas