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Originally Posted by cooke71892

well, that sounds good.....but ! hole in your explanation......wouldn't that paper be surrounded by air? so is our universe surrounded by a larger universe? answer that.

No, the paper is the entirety of its two dimensional universe; folding it in a third dimension is more representative of the kind of geometrical/topological transformation it goes through, not an indication of higher space it goes through.

The analogy is imperfect, as are all analogies. Don't take it at its face value but grasp the concept I am trying to convey.