Rotating Tesseract

The tesseract is a four dimensional cube.The tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square; or, more formally, the tesseract can be described as a regular convex 4-polytope whose boundary consists of eight cubical cells.

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[1Heirborn]

a 3D representation of a 4D object on a 2D screen. Fuck this, I'm switching to an art major!

[indnwkybrd]

No, actually, it is *just* rotating. It only looks like it's tensing and relaxing because what you're really looking at is 2D shadow of a 4D object. Imagine rotating a cube in front of a lamp... you would see a 2D hexagonal shadow on the wall that looks like it's morphing and changing shape, but the true 3D cube is only rotating, not changing shape.

[Koloszrodosthe]

If we had two probably even easier. But when I try to imagine a time plane like a 2d plane, then I see too much paradox and not enough logic. Like, 'bleeaaah...'

[anticorncob6]

I see what you mean. I do have a small visual of 4d. I've used it to figure out that two planes can intersect at a point, but 5d and above I don't even try. Perhaps if we had three time dimensions it would be easier for another one.

[Koloszrodosthe]

You can easily visualise an extra space dimension (but not two or more, I don't think) if you understand the logic, but imagining another time dimension is just fucked up.

[anticorncob6]

lol. In my opinion, extra time dimensions are harder to visualize than extra space dimensions (well, they're both impossible, but you know what I mean).

[Koloszrodosthe]

Fuck... My brain hurts.

[anticorncob6]

What if there were two dimensions of space and two dimensions of time?

[LunarKiwiGaming]

everyone stop commenting herp derp

[QueenMAB418]

Read "A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeline L'engle it's a science fiction fantasy novel first published in 1962. A story abt a young girl whose father has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called...a tesseract. The book won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award & was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. It's first in a series and explains the concepts very well. Excellent explanation here too, btw, KUDOS!! :)

[Jeremiah Noar]

my brain is making that same motion as i watch.

[Conner Hartsfield]

MIND=BLOWN