Think outside the Tesseract

Tesseract

Tesseract

omnitruncated tesseract

bitruncated tesseract

Tesseract

Take six cubes.

Arrange them into the shape of a crucifix.

Take two more cubes

stick them either side of the crucifix

at the point where the cross is made.

Now you have a tesseract.

A tesseract is a 3 dimensional object.

A tesseract is also a 4 dimensional object

a hypercube

unravelled.

A square unravels to a line.

2 dimensions unravel to one.

A cube unravels to a cross.

3 dimensions unravel to two.

A hypercube unravels to a tesseract.

4 dimensions unravel to three.

You exist in three spatial dimensions.

In the same way that a one dimensional person

could not visualise a 2 dimensional square,

or a 2 dimensional person could not visualise a 3 dimensional cube,

you cannot visualise a hypercube.

A hypercube is a thing you are not equipped to understand.

You can only understand the Tesseract.

You can see the thing unravelled

you cannot see the thing itself.

Come to the edge" he said.


"We can't, we're afraid!"

"Come to the edge" he said.

"We can't, we'll fall!"

"Come to the edge" he said.

So they came.

And he pushed them.

And they flew.