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Just a hypercube anymation.Related content
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YES!!! Finally someone who understands that a Tesseract changes through time! Although this isn't a Hypercube. This is a two-dimensional illusions of a three-dimensional rendering of a four-dimensional object. Tesseracts are formed when Hypercubes are unfolded in the third dimenstion. Great job with the animation, though!
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Ha! Ever read Flatland? I love imagining higher dimensions, until my eyes cross and I start imagining everything as a 3D footprint from the 4th dimension. Generally all it takes is a nap to reset the skewed worldview.
And thanks for diggin on the cube, but I cannot take credit for the animation. I found it many years ago, and wish I knew the source ere I'd credit it. I shoved it into my scraps to show it to somebody ("HERE. THIS is what I'm trying to describe!") which cut out about a week's worth of arm waving and gutteral noises.
If you like it, you might enjoy the personal-size travel version in nift stamp form: [link]
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No, but I've been meaning to. Is it good? That's the world that Sagan uses to describe the Tesseract. But that's all a Tesseract/ Hypercube is really, a shadow. Hold a cube out in front of you. All right angles, correct? Now draw a cube, the way a 1st grader (and most people) would. There aren't all right angles! That's because you are projecting a three dimensional object onto a two-dimensional space. The shadow of a cube looks like the drawing. Physics lesson 
I found it all over the internet. I don't think that anyone knows who made it. Great description! Have you ever read The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy? Of any books by Michio Kaku? You seem like you would like it.
Thank you so much! What is the purpose of a stamp, anyway? Sorry, I'm new, and deligted to meet the first other person in real life that has heard of a Tesseract/ Hypercube! Where did you hear about it?
Also, I have a question if you can answer it. If the 4th dimension is time, aren't we living in 4th dimensional because we experience it? I think that we have is not time in the literal sense, but rather linear entropy. What is time, then? Perhaps a non-linear... (I don't know what word is suposed to go here).
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Welcome to DeviantArt! I hadn't realized you were so new until I peeked at your main page.
YES. Flatland is a remarkable book, easy to breeze through quickly -- assuming you're comfortable with the somewhat stilted 19th century writing style. It was published in 1884, after all.
But it's far from simple; it conveys mind-blowing concepts step by step until you actually start seeing things differently. And best of all, you can read the whole thing here: [link]
I've worn out copies of Hitchhiker, and watched the BBC series, and that dreadful movie. Douglas Adams was an amazing guy.
Kaku is fun, but his wide-eyed enthusiasm grates on me. His SciFi Science tv series is especially annoying, since he'll spend 15 minutes describing how to build a giant transforming robot JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES!! then design something that's nightmarishly stupid from an engineer's perspective. It's 30 minutes of facepalming for me.
The stamp is useful on DeviantArt if you have a premium account. Then there's a place on your main page to plug in stamps you find amusing. Some people have hundreds in their collection; it can become an obsession. Other than that, they're just pretty little snippets of fun that express anything you like.
Sure, I'll take a stab at your 4th dimension.
To mathematicians, the 4th dimension is not "time". It's just a linear extrapolation of our existing three perceived dimensions, and even conventional plane geometry can accommodate work in 4D by adding an additional axis: w. In other words, we can describe objects in 3D space via x/y/z coordinates, and objects in 4D space with x/y/z/w. It's pretty cut-and-dry. This is the realm in which your hypercube resides.
For practical purposes, it's common to model movement of objects using a "timeline" which for convenience is often presented as another axis of motion. If you play with 3D rendering software you'll instantly grasp this: an object's position can be represented with x/y/z/time coordinates. So in this sense, yes... time is the "4th dimension". But really that's just a convention. A way for humans (and machines) to communicate spatial data, and has nothing to do with physics.
So what is "time", in the real sense? You're absolutely correct; it's not linear. Time is very fluid.
SO WHAT IS IT?! A topic for another time.
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I'm fine with that type of writing, I rather enjoy it, actually. My library didn't have it! 
That's cool! I'm starting to see a lot of similarities between Flatland and a book that I read in 4th grade called Atherton...
I walked out on the movie. Have you heard the radio version? It originally started out as a radio series then it got popular and turned into a book. Well, actually it got started as 10 or 12 unconnected short stories describing the destruction of the Earth in many different ways, which actually explains a lot. Have you read Eon Colfer's fanfic of it, And Another Thing?
YES!!! FINALLY SOMEONE WHO GETS IT!!!I think the excitement is just a necessary telly personality, and he's paid for ideas, not for practicality, but still... I think that the robot bit is more about justifying it then stealing it. I think that the convention at the end it the same one, the same people are always there. either that or it's staged. One of his books is tolerable, though.
That's pretty cool. How do you make one?
That's so simple! I can't believe I didn't realize that before! How do you learn about it?
Does anyone have a strict definition of time?
Also, next week I get to teach a lesson on higher dimensions in science class!!! Do you have any ideas? I only have about 30 out of 60 minutes of material. I wish that there was more information out there. Doesn't it drive you absolutely mad thinking about how much is unknown and how much will never be discovered?
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Flatland is an engaging read. The 19th century prose is not a problem once you're acclimated. I think THIS is the main source you should tap for your higher-dimensions talk.
Yes, I've listened to the entire run of the BBC radio show a few times. But it's been maybe 10 years. In many ways it's superior to the tv show and even the books.
Making a basic stamp is pretty easy if you have any kind of skills with MS Paint (or Paintbrush if you're Mac). You can search DeviantArt for templates and tutorials on how to create stamps yourself -- there's a whole subculture of Deviants who do nothing but stamps.
Making an animated one takes special tools. I use a number of things, but mostly GIF Movie Gear to assemble & manage the finished product.
'Time' in the physical sense is slippery. Physicists and mathematicians have their own definitions, and while those definitions work for them they're not entirely congruent.
My own personal belief is that time is an emergent phenomenon, in that it does not truly exist except as a concept in our heads.
It's like the concept of 'darkness'. Does that really exist? Who says? Just because OUR eyes stop working at a certain threshold of illumination does not make it a universal law. Even in 'absolute darkness' there exists radiation that we could use to 'see' with were we so equipped. Try and measure the 'speed of darkness' or its mass. You cannot.
And yet it's a concept we carry and experience daily, despite it being entirely a product of the way our mind and senses work.
And so it is with 'time'. We are wired in such a way to experience linear time, but there may be other beings who see things differently. Perhaps they 'see' everything at once, and skip forwards and backwards at will, and to them we're like 4D trees rooted in-place, stretching back to our births and forward to our deaths. They may not even recognize us as living beings, because living beings (by their definition) experience time-all-at-once.
Think about this the next time you see a rock, and consider it nothing more than a chunk of inanimate matter.
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I started reading it, it goes slowly, but is totally worth it. Thank you for the recommendation!
I can quote the entire series for heart. For whatever reason, my dad is not quite as proud as when I learned to quot every line that Spock has ever said. Perhaps it's because I keep pestering him with random quotes when he calls me down for lunch
Awesome, thanks!
Perhaps this sort of thing is why the Greeks and the Romans often considered science and philosophy to be the same thing. It is so fascinating! How did you leanr all of this?
If darkness is the absence of light, with no matter therefore does not exist...hold on a second...
Perhaps darkness isn't something on it's own, but signaling lack of something. But then if we see it it's still something(etc)... AAAAAGH!!! Can ANYONE make sense of it?
Time makes so much more sense! SO it's more like the Doctor Who perspective of time, everything is happening at once, it's just a matter of getting to the right place. I'm guessing this is where parallel universes also start to come in? If they skip forward and backwards at will, do they age, and when they leave one area of their life, what happens to the others? Etc... Confusion...
O_O O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O No words adequately describe this sort of confusion that makes perfect sense yet doesn't... is there a word for that?
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As a species, we're on the verge of cracking some primal questions about how the universe works. Time is just one of those things we'll figure out soon enough. I suspect the answer lies partially in us, the observers, and there really *is* no 'time' as we imagine it. It's probably just a helpful concept that helps us poor 3D creatures cope with reality.
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I see. That makes so much sense! Have you ever read the book Factoring Humanity? It's all about this sort of stuff, in sci-fi form. The writer won a Nebula Award for his work, and it's accurate, too! Thank you so much for putting up with my questions!
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I freaking love you (just don't come near my wallet - it's got its own security system).
I LOVED that movie and have been trying hard to remember what the hypercube looked like - seeing that its so hard to represent four dimensions in a mere two-dimensional image. Hence this animation is mind-boggling (and a bit painful, obviously confirming I'm fine and doing everything right) but I love it.
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Liebst du auch.
Glad you like the 'cube. I keep one in my pocket to mesmerize sales clerks. Surprising what a 4th dimensional discount nets you.
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Yes. If it doesn't hurt you're doing it wrong.
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Not good to be looking at that while eyelids are drooping...
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eyelids drooping
brain is pooping
everyone worship:
HY PER CUBE!
...repeat ad infinitum...
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I've got a little tune in my head when I read that... sounds like a cross between Vader's song and the Smurfs... and Sesame Street...
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You- you can't even relate right now. D8
I'm only slightly a hypercube fanatic.
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Stare deeply into the CUBE. The CUBE loves you. You love IT. Together you will be happy, and all the secrets of the CUBE shall be yours.
*grabs your wallet*
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Yes. Stare into the cube. Excellent.
Muhahahaha..!
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