There are many problems relating to stretching or squeezing of sheet in which we obtain a dimensionless parameter which contains "x" or "t", symbolizing a local behaviour of the parameter on the flow. How is this justified?
If I understand it correctly. I'll risk answering that one needs an extra dimension to justify the dimensionless point. Lifting the analysis to 3 dimensions yields a result like Perelman's proof of the Thurston Geometrization Conjecture, in which Ricci flow with surgery becomes extinct in finite time.