gaara Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 hello, kids, what is a hyper cube and i understand wat the first four dimensions are but wat are any other dimensions that can be talked about. like i can comprehend time and space but wat else could ther be. thanks men of earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 a hypercube(terrasect) is just a cube with four spatial dimensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaara Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 please exlpain wat the fourth spatial dimension is. like wat is its nature or components Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 it is just math. it is a pretend extra direction for space. instead of (x,y,z), it is (x,y,z,some other letter). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaara Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 oh i see, is it at all tangible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 somebody here has a 2D representation of one for their avatar. i think it may be terrasect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaara Posted April 13, 2005 Author Share Posted April 13, 2005 wat is the hyper cube used for do u know. a model for something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 idk. afiak, it is just math. it may be used in a kaluza-klein(sp?) thype thing or for one of the string theories or m-theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Here are some threads that talk in more detail about higher dimensions and hypercubes. I've done the search parameters so the word hypercube will be highlighted in red: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7967&highlight=hypercube http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1068&highlight=hypercube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 its nothing other than concept. if your asking for some tangible meaning in it your going to be sorely dissapointed. were 3 dimensional. our brains arent even equiped to understand the vastness of our own universe in its 3 dimensions. a four dimensional object is meaningless to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaAotS Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 Theres actually a simple way to understand a 4th dimension... possibly more, however it technically couldn't be called a 4th spatial dimension. Anyways, if you just added gradient as a 4th dimension... then you'd see the 3d object, the the 4th d made by the light / darkness of the gradient. You could even add another if you made another gradient using 2 colors. Get creative, and you could probably think of many ways to "add" dimensions to an object. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaara Posted May 4, 2005 Author Share Posted May 4, 2005 o right , kewl. thanks for ur response Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severian Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 Or you could use time for the 4th dimension. So a unit hypercube would be a unit cube which existed only for one unit of time. It would not exist, then suddenly flick into existence, last a unit of time and disappear again. (I will leave the Minkowski metric to one side...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaAotS Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 That'd be a bit hard to measure though lol... if time was another dimension, it would have to be able to accelerate, decelerate, speed up etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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