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This animation hints at the complexity that emerges when points in 4D are linked together to create basic four-dimensional objects. The object shown here is the 4D equivalent of a cube, known as a tesseract. To create this animation, the tesseract was rotated in four dimensions, then projected into three dimensions.
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>>8772397
>the meme dimension.
You have to understand we can't and we will never can see 4+ dimensions in our reality.
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>>8772397
If someone said the universe were 4D, would that mean that it wraps around itself, and you could go in one direction and end up where you started? If you follow a specific point on that gif you get a loop.
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I thought it was just a 3D projection of a 4D object, not the 4d object itself. The same way a series of squares would be a 2D projection of a 3D cube
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ever heard of this thing called string theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory
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>>8772397
This shit distracted me all the way through that episode of Space Dandy.
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>>8772424
It's actually a 2D projection of a 3D projection of a 4D object.
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>>8772413
wrong. We are capable of some n dimensions visualization in the mind. Took a long time but I can visualize a tesseract rotating and understand it as something beyond that projection. It is possible.
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>>8772415
you're an idiot.
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>>8772526
>visualize
vision is fundamentally 2d
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>>8772537
Pedantic wordplay. You are a weak mind.
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The fourth dimension was time I thought. And I thought it doesn't exist because time is just distance travelled according to einstein. It's a nice picture but I would think you perceiving the 4th dimension would be like your eyes going inside out as your point of observation spread across a large area, or even the entire universe. Some shit like that.
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>>8773019
time is a dimension but there are conceivably more spatial dimensions as well as dimension that regard neither space nor time
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>>8772397
>then projected into three dimensions.
not to be a dick, but it appears on my screen in only two dimensions.
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>>8773066
If that's not a pipe how can I smell the tobacco from it? Checkmate Aristotelian metaphysical materialist literalists.
Or maybe I'm just looking at a 5th dimensional pipe.
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