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Tesseract
February 7, 2008Now that I don’t have to study it, Physics fascinates me. Let’s see if I can explain this thing without bungling it up.
There are five dimensions: the first, line; the second, shape; and the third, space. The fourth is time; and when you place a thing - anything, be it an object or a person - within a continuum, you give it a history and a destiny. The fifth dimension - and this is where it gets interesting - is called a tesseract, often popularly called a hypercube. In her novel A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle had Meg Murry and her companions walk in and out of planets and dimensions using a tesseract. In the television series, Andromeda, tesseract generators can manipulate space, but must be used with caution because they interfere with time.
It’s a simple idea, really, and one that is breathtaking for precisely this reason. You select two points in the space-time continuum. You "fold" the line between them so that the points, rather than being at opposite ends, now touch each other. You cut a hole through the fold so that you can pass through. This hole is the tesseract, literally your wrinkle in the fabric of time.
Isn’t Physics beautiful?
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