There is no "Fourth" dimension

Just because there are four dimensions doesn't mean there's a "fourth dimension"

4D rubik's cube: http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube...

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[imthemasterofpuppets]

Explain that to me multivariable calculus professor.

[TheGreatgby]

No evidence to support it, in our minds we can express things without words, we do not have a way to express something in our language. It is not so much language affects how we thing about things, language affects communication, thus we can only provide misinformation to others. In fact, in our heads we do not really take in sentences, if I ask you to repeat what I just said to you, you can only repeat the content. That is why so many linguists today are so against Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

[darkicemax]

...My mind hurts...

[ObscurityIsBest]

But when we think, we think in words. True, we don't remember every word said (we only remember the key ideas). However, those key ideas are often packaged in key words. If the key words are misdefined, then the ideas packaged in those words are misunderstood. Sapir and Whorf weren't completely off their mark.

[Tiffany Utley]

I can barley solve the real one in my room...I just screwed that one up...

[fmark1997]

one way is to use mirrors at certain angles to see 3d

[UnderoathLambofgod]

Let me get done solving this 3D rubix cube that I got 8 years ago first....

[DisconnectTheHype17]

That rubix cube looks hard

[monkerud2108]

no 3D and 2D are concepts. :P a texture with no volume or volume.

[NotedAngellover]

Whoah, wait... If what you're saying is true.. Then aren't the colours of the rubic's cube also a dimension, thus always four dimensioned? :P

[ReaumWingblade]

I can't even solve a regular Rubik's cube, get bored to quickly