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Mathematicians and artists have engaged in the mental exercise of imagining extra dimensions. What would a fourth dimension — somehow perpendicular to the familiar three — look like? |
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Quanta Magazine
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To visualize a 4D shape, we can build up to it. Just as a square in two dimensions is bounded by four one-dimensional line segments, and a three-dimensional cube is bounded by six squares, the boundary of a tesseract — a four-dimensional cube — is defined by 8 three-dimensional cubes. |
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Norton H Pearl
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We already have a fourth dimension.
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