Hyperspace Star Polytope Slicer

I guess I have to admit I'm in the "ape" category

I've been an avid SciFi reader for long time (don't laugh ... there are often a lot of good 'possibilities' to consider, and some good cases of SciFi becoming Sci-Fact).

Although, sometimes I can get a brief glimpse of that which is greater than my current time-dimensional surroundings, it is never more than a glimpse.

My best-case tool is analogy (for instance, referencing the effects of being 2-dimensional [which is also difficult, but a little easier to comprehend], moving into 3-dimensions) to try to understand the ramifications of moving outside our own realm.

Sometimes, we can embrace the 'fact' of other time-dimensional realms, but, for me, I'm not sure how I can grasp it.

BUT, surely a tool like this could help (same as 3-D modeling helps some to see an object when they can't visualize it) ... AND, it IS pretty .

My best-case tool is analogy (for instance, referencing the effects of being 2-dimensional [which is also difficult, but a little easier to comprehend], moving into 3-dimensions) to try to understand the ramifications of moving outside our own realm.

With regards to a 3-D person trying to comprehend 4-D objects, yes, the most useful analogy seems to be that of a 2-D person interacting with 3-D objects. Edwin Abbott wrote "Flatland", a fictional book how 2-D beings might experience their world and also the encounters with higher dimensions. In one scene, a 3-D sphere passes through the 2-D world of Flatland. The residents there are baffled by what they see -- a point suddenly appears from nowhere, smoothly grows into a circle, then smoothly shrinks back into a point which suddenly disappears. Only by struggling with the difficult concept of "Spaceland" (3-D space), do the residents of Flatland begin to overcome their confusion about the mysterious visitor.

Now who has the more challenging task, Flatlanders trying to understand Spaceland, or us Spacelanders trying to understand Hyperspace? I think we have the tougher task (look at the Polytope Slicer to see what I mean), but fortunately we have nice bulbous brains instead of the thin pancake of neurons that passes as a brain in Flatland!

Very cool ...

Neat.

Get out of my mind!!!

Cool image! I like the way the inside surfaces of the inner cube become the outside surface of the outer cube (and vice versa). The thing constantly turns itself inside-out and outside-in. This reminds me of the warning that ordinary 3-D safes do not offer any security against 4-D beings -- hyperbeings can easily reach into a closed 3-D safe by exploiting the 4th dimension! And I imagine that 4-D surgeons would not need to split open the rib cage of a 3-D person when performing heart surgery.

That doesn't mean they won't do it, just for kicks. And they may even be sadistic enough to go 'old school' and cut ya in 2d.