Behold the rotation of a rotating tesseract, a 4D cube:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._animation.gif
Where... the... hell... is the fourth dimension?
I can't understand it at all! :(
Behold the rotation of a rotating tesseract, a 4D cube:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._animation.gif
Where... the... hell... is the fourth dimension?
I can't understand it at all! :(
And why can't you read the article? It explains it all right there.
Why do you need to know it anyway? Isn't it just time?
Its the dimension I'm in!
Damn you Peter for finding me!
In string theory, there are 10 spatial dimensions, but they're all really really small.
I thought only 7 were really small and 3 were big, but i havent looked at it for a whileQuote:
Originally Posted by The Unknown Guru
that picture looks so trippy :choc:
Yeah, that's what I meant. I need more sleep.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackmage_nukeI thought only 7 were really small and 3 were big, but i havent looked at it for a whileQuote:
Originally Posted by The Unknown Guru
If it isn't time I have no idea what it is.
This is how I learnt it:
You can construct a 1-dimensional object (a line) by taking two points and joining them:
A • • B => A •--------• B
You can construct a 2-dimensional square by taking two parallel lines and joining them:
A •----• B => A •----• B
| |
C •----• D C •----• D
You can construct a 3-dimensional cube by taking two parallel squares and joining them in the same way. I'm not drawing that. :p
Finally, you can construct a 4-dimensional tesseract (or hypercube) by taking two parallel cubes and connecting each correlating point.
Since we only have three visually observable dimensions, most of the time the 4th dimension of 4-d hypercube is represented visually as permutations of the cube structure over time, which is why that picture you supplied is rotating like that.
I stole this image from Wikipedia and highlighted each cube so that you can see how each of the two cubes connect together.
Witch! Burn them! Burn them!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter_20
I tried watching a flash about the ten dimensions but I sorta lost track after about seven. Shows how fantastic I am, I'm sure.