Pinyin: wéi English Definition: to preserve; to maintain; to hold together; dimension; vitamin (abbr. for 维生素 ); abbr. for Uighur 维吾尔 ; surname Wei Chinese Definition: ①系，连结：维系。维絷。 ②保持：维持。维护。维修。维生素。 ③纲：纲维(总纲，亦指法度)。 ④数学名词，几何学及空间理论的基本概念，通常的空间有“三维”，平面是“二维”，直线只有“一维”。 ⑤思考：思维(亦作“思惟”)。 ⑥以，因为：“维子之故，使我不能餐兮”。 ⑦文言助词，用于句首或句中：维新。维妙维肖。 ⑧姓氏。
No relation of all this to fractals is known, but in my work I've found that they do have a common property, that is, a non-integer dimension (at some scale).
This often results in workers arriving to find that they are far behind in their labor and have to stay longer in the alternate dimension in order to catch up.
