In 1900, in England, an American named Donald Frazier apporaches elderly Oxford Classics Professor reginald Smythe-Yates. Smythe-Yates is well known to be interested in the "mysterious fourth dimernsion," although of course he has never bothered to study any mathematics or physics relveant to the topic. Frazier says that he has found ways of getting small ordinary objects into the fourth dimension and bringing them back for inspection. He offers to demsontrate, under the assumption that Professor Smythe-Yates (who is from a very wealthy family) will offer him suitable financial support for further research. Here are the demonstrations he does: (1) Frazier is wearing a neat vested suit. He removes his suit coat and askes that Smythe-Yates tie his wrists together with soft clothesline. The rope between the wrists hangs down in a U about halfway to the floor. (The piece of rope used is about 4 feet long.) The ties around the wrists are tight enough that it is not possible for Frazier to slip his hands free of the rope, and the knots are taped so that they cannot be untied without the tampering being obvious. "Now watch carefully," says Frazier, "but I beg one indulgence. The entry into other dimensions requires somewhat obscene posturing. I would prefern to do that posturing in private, but I will be no more than a step away beyond this door into this other rooms, which i can see is small, with no other door and no windows. wait for me to return and do not move please." Frazier then steps into the adjacent room and out of sight. In much les than a minute he steps back into the doorway. His vest is on inside-out, and front to back, and still buttoned! His wrists are still securely tied. How was he able to do this? (2) The next day Frazier does the same thing, but this time his suit is on! That is, he steps out of sight wearing his vest and coat. When he steps back into sight, again in much less than a minute, under his unaffected coat his vest is seen to be inside-out and front-to-back, and still buttoned. How did he manage this? (3) The next day frazier takes off his coat and vest and asks if the professor has a pull-over long sleeve sweater that because of its weave looks totally different on the inside than on the outside. "A skeptic may think that, because a vest can be unbuttoned, there is some trick used. I will show this is not the case." In his shirtsleeves, frazier puts on the sweater. His wrists are then securely tied as before. Again, he steps out of sight for a moment. When he returns, after a few seconds, he still has the sweater on, but it is inside-out! [Smythe-Yates in his credulous book Beyond Our Frame Entire, does not say whether the sweater was also reversed back to front; perhaps, if it was a hand-made sweater, he had no way to tell.] (4) The next day frazier says he wants to show the ultimate convincer. he asks that his wrists be securely tied with the rope as before. This time he steps out of sights for only one second! When he returns, there is a real, ordinary knot tied in the very middle of the rope stretching between his tied wrists! The knot can only be untied after the rope is cut free on either side. The rope is not faked or gimmicked in any way, the knots are not untied or tampered with in any way, there rope is not slipped off or up, in any way, at either end, nor is its position on the wrists adjusted at all.
