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Rotating shadow of a tesseract rotating on a single axis and a single plane.

There are three conventional spatial dimensions: length (or depth), width, and height, often expressed as 'x', 'y' and 'z'. 'x' and 'y' axes appear on a plane Cartesian graph. In the 3rd dimension, typically a 'z' is used and is found in functions such as a "z-buffer" in computer graphics, for processing "depth" in imagery. The fourth dimension is often identified with time in physics, and as such is used to explain the non-Euclidean space-time used in Einstein's theories of special relativity and general relativity. Fourth dimension or 4D can mean a number of things: Fourth dimension, the concept of a fourth spatial dimension Spacetime, the concept of time forming a fourth dimension The Fourth Dimension (book), a novel by Rudy Rucker The Fourth Dimension (book), a book by Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho The Fourth... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Tesseract (disambiguation). ... 2-dimensional renderings (ie. ... Cartesian means of or relating to the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. ... This article is about the concept of time. ... The term non-Euclidean geometry (also spelled: non-Euclidian geometry) describes both hyperbolic and elliptic geometry, which are contrasted with Euclidean geometry. ... In special relativity and general relativity, time and three-dimensional space are treated together as a single four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifold called spacetime. ... For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to special relativity. ... For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to general relativity. ...

When a reference is used to four-dimensional coordinates, it is likely that what is referred to is the three spatial dimensions plus a time-line. In this case the space is sometimes called Poincaré space or Minkowski space or (3 + 1)-space.^[1]If 4 (or more) spatial dimensions are referred to, this should be stated at the outset, to avoid confusion with the more common notion that time is the Einsteinian fourth dimension. In physics and mathematics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) is the mathematical setting in which Einsteins theory of special relativity is most conveniently formulated. ... “Einstein” redirects here. ...

If time is considered as the "fourth dimension", the additional fourth spatial dimension would be referred to as the fifth dimension. Alternatively, time can be considered as the 0th dimension, and all positive-numbered dimensions spatial. For other uses, see Fifth Dimension (disambiguation). ...

Another spatial dimension orthogonal to the other three spatial dimensions has been discussed. The cardinal directions in the three known dimensions may be referred to as up/down (altitude), north/south (latitude), and east/west (longitude). When speaking of the fourth spatial dimension, an additional pair of terms is needed. Attested terms include ana/kata (sometimes called spissitude or spassitude), vinn/vout (used by Rudy Rucker), and upsilon/delta. The word space has many meanings, including: Physics The definition of space in physics is contentious. ... In mathematics, orthogonal is synonymous with perpendicular when used as a simple adjective that is not part of any longer phrase with a standard definition. ... Ana is a mathematical/geometric term referring to a direction in the fourth spatial dimension. ... Kata is a mathematical/geometric term referring to a direction in the fourth spatial dimension. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Henry More. ... Rudy Rucker, Fall 2004, photo by Georgia Rucker. ...

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Concepts

The fourth spatial dimension and orthogonality

A right angle is defined as one quarter of a revolution and "orthogonal" (from the Greek) refers to coordinates or functions that are at right angles to each other. Cartesian geometry arbitrarily chooses orthogonal directions through space, which means that they add height. The fourth dimension is therefore the direction in space that is at right angles to these three observable directions.

Vectors

Demonstration of objects with 1 to 5 dimensions

The fourth spatial dimension can be thought of in terms of vectors, analogous to arrows, fixed from some single place in space which we call the origin, that point to other places. These are called geometric vectors. Image File history File links Dice_analogy-_1_to_5_dimensions. ... Image File history File links Dice_analogy-_1_to_5_dimensions. ... This article is about vectors that have a particular relation to the spatial coordinates. ...

A point is a zero-dimensional object. It has no extension in space, and no properties^{[citation needed]}. If one were to think of this point as a geometric vector, like an arrow, it would have no length. This vector is called the zero vector. A spatial point is an entity with a location in space but no extent (volume, area or length). ... In linear algebra and related areas of mathematics, the null vector or zero vector in a vector space is the uniquely-determined vector, usually written 0, that is the identity element for vector addition. ...

A line is a one-dimensional object. If we pick some nonzero vector in some direction, this vector has some definite length. That vector has a head at some point in space and a tail at the origin. If we think of stretching that vector so it is twice as long, three times as long, and so on and even stretching it backwards so it takes all possible lengths it can (even zero length, to get the zero vector), we get a single line with one dimension of length. All the vectors that describe points on this line are said to be parallel to each other. Even though any line we can draw must have some small thickness (so that we can see it), this theoretical line does not. Line redirects here. ...

A plane is a two-dimensional object. It has a length and breadth but no thickness — somewhat like a sheet of paper (but paper too has some thickness). Thinking of a plane in terms of vectors can be a little more challenging. If we think of taking one vector and moving it so that its tail is touching the head of the first and forming a vector with its tail at the origin and the head at the head of the repositioned second vector, we have a reasonable way of talking about adding vectors. If we have two vectors that are not parallel, we can talk about all the points we can reach by stretching either of the vectors (or not stretching them), and, adding these vectors together, these points form a plane. We say that the two vectors span the plane. This article is about the mathematical construct. ...

Space, as we perceive it, is three-dimensional. We can think of putting a line together with a "stack" of planes. These planes are "stuck together" like a sandwich, with the line passing through them like a skewer. To get to some point in space, we can imagine traveling up the line and then moving across the plane to the point. We then have three vectors to think about, one to travel some distance up the line and two to get to some point in space. Around 300 BC, the Greek mathematician Euclid laid down the rules of what has now come to be called Euclidean geometry, which is the study of the relationships between angles and distances in space. ...

The fourth spatial dimension, then, can be described by "sticking together", that is by attaching or merging, several three-dimensional spaces in a row, but in a way that extends into the fourth dimension. To understand this concept, think of putting pieces of paper side by side. The sheets do not extend into the third dimension until one puts them on top of one another (to add height, along with the other two dimensions). So in order to extend into the fourth dimension, it is necessary to add "ana" and "kata." To get to some point in the four-dimensional space, one travels along the three-dimensional spaces, and also across the fourth dimension. The total number of vectors involved is four.

Mathematically, the 4-dimensional spatial equivalent of conventional 3-dimensional geometry is the Euclidean 4-space, a 4-dimensional normed vector space with the Euclidean norm. The "length" of a vector Around 300 BC, the Greek mathematician Euclid laid down the rules of what has now come to be called Euclidean geometry, which is the study of the relationships between angles and distances in space. ... In linear algebra, functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a norm is a function which assigns a positive length or size to all vectors in a vector space, other than the zero vector. ... In mathematics, with 2- or 3-dimensional vectors with real-valued entries, the idea of the length of a vector is intuitive and can easily be extended to any real vector space Rn. ...

expressed in the standard basis is given by

which is the natural generalisation of the Pythagorean Theorem to 4 dimensions. This allows for the definition of the angle between two vectors (see Euclidean space for more information). In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem (AmE) or Pythagoras theorem (BrE) is a relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a right triangle. ... Around 300 BC, the Greek mathematician Euclid laid down the rules of what has now come to be called Euclidean geometry, which is the study of the relationships between angles and distances in space. ...

Dimensional analogy

A net of a tesseract

To make the leap from three spatial dimensions into four, a device called dimensional analogy is commonly employed. Dimensional analogy is studying how (n – 1) dimensions relate to n dimensions, and then inferring how n dimensions would relate to (n + 1) dimensions. Image File history File links Tesseract_net. ... Image File history File links Tesseract_net. ...

For example, in the book Flatland, Edwin Abbott Abbott writes about a square that lives in a two-dimensional world, like the surface of a piece of paper. A three-dimensional being has seemingly god-like powers from the perspective of this square: such as being able to remove objects from a safe without breaking it open (by moving them across the third dimension), see everything that from the two-dimensional perspective is enclosed behind walls, and remaining completely invisible by standing a few inches away in the third dimension. By applying dimensional analogy, one can infer that a four-dimensional being would be capable of similar feats from our three-dimensional perspective. Rudy Rucker demonstrates this in his novel Spaceland, in which the protagonist encounters four-dimensional beings who demonstrate such powers. For various uses of the term Flatlander, see Flatlander (disambiguation) Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a 1884 novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott, still popular among mathematics and computer science students, and considered useful reading for people studying topics such as the concept of other dimensions. ... Edwin Abbott Abbott Edwin Abbott Abbott (December 20, 1838 – October 12, 1926), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire and religious allegory Flatland (1884). ... Rudy Rucker, Fall 2004, photo by Georgia Rucker. ... Cover of Rudy Ruckers Novel, Spaceland. ...

A useful application of dimensional analogy in visualizing the fourth dimension is in projection. A projection is a way for representing an n-dimensional object in n − 1 dimensions. For instance, computer screens are two-dimensional, and all the photographs of three-dimensional people, places and things are represented in two dimensions by removing information about the third dimension. In this case, depth is removed and replaced with indirect information. The retina of the eye is a two-dimensional array of receptors but it can allow the brain to perceive the nature of three-dimensional objects using indirect information (such as shading, foreshortening, binocular vision etc.). Artists use perspective to give three-dimensional depth to two-dimensional pictures. Graphical projection in the visual sciences is an imaging procedure the protocols of which preclude the necessity of mathematical calculation. ... Human eye cross-sectional view. ... For other uses, see Eye (disambiguation). ... For the microarray in genetics, see SNP array. ... In a sensory system, a sensory receptor is a structure that recognizes a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism. ... Foreshortening refers to the visual effect or optical illusion that an object or distance is shorter than it actually is because it is angled toward the viewer. ... Binocular vision is vision in which both eyes are used synchronously to produce a single image. ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ... A cube in two-point perspective. ...

Similarly, objects in the fourth dimension can be mathematically projected to the familiar 3 dimensions, where they can then be more conveniently examined. In this case, the 'retina' of the four-dimensional eye is a three-dimensional array of receptors. A hypothetical being with such an eye would perceive the nature of four-dimensional objects using indirect information contained in the images it receives in its retina. Perspective projection from four dimensions produces similar effects as in the three-dimensional case, such as foreshortening. This adds four-dimensional depth (depth, of course, being technically incorrect, but no proper word comes to mind) to these three-dimensional pictures. Foreshortening refers to the visual effect or optical illusion that an object or distance is shorter than it actually is because it is angled toward the viewer. ...

Dimensional analogy also helps in understanding such projections. For example, two-dimensional objects are bounded by one-dimensional boundaries: a square is bounded by four edges. Three-dimensional objects are bounded by two-dimensional surfaces: a cube is bounded by 6 squares. By applying dimensional analogy, one may infer that a four-dimensional cube, known as a tesseract, is bounded by three-dimensional volumes. And indeed, this is the case mathematically: the tesseract is bounded by 8 cubes. Knowing this is key to understanding how to interpret a three-dimensional projection of the tesseract. The boundaries of the tesseract project to volumes in the image, not merely two-dimensional surfaces. This helps in understanding features of such projections that may otherwise be very puzzling. For other uses, see Tesseract (disambiguation). ...

Likewise the concept of shadows can help us better understand the theory of four dimensions. If you were to shine a light on a three dimensional object, it would cast a two dimensional shadow. Therefore light on a two-dimensional object would cast a one-dimensional shadow (in a two-dimensional world), and light on a one-dimensional object in a one-dimensional world would cast a zero-dimensional shadow, that is, a point of non-light. This idea can be used in the other direction; light on a four-dimensional object (in a four dimensional world) would cast a three-dimensional shadow.

As an example of this, imagine that light is shone down through a wireframe cube onto a flat surface. The shadow that results is that of a square within a square with each of the corners connected. Similarly, if a four-dimensional cube were lit "from above", its shadow would be that of a three-dimensional cube within another three-dimensional cube.

Being three-dimensional we are only able to see the world with our eyes in two dimensions; a four-dimensional being would see the world in three. Thus it would be able, for example, to see all six sides of an opaque box simultaneously. Not only so; it would also be able to see what was inside the box at the same time, just like in Flatland, where the sphere sees objects in the two-dimensional world and everything inside them simultaneously. Analogously, a four-dimensional viewer would see all points in our 3-dimensional space simultaneously, including the inner structure of solid objects and things obscured from our three-dimensional viewpoint. For various uses of the term Flatlander, see Flatlander (disambiguation) Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a 1884 novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott, still popular among mathematics and computer science students, and considered useful reading for people studying topics such as the concept of other dimensions. ...

The dimensions can be determined by counting the basic line patterns on the object. 1 Dimension will only have 1 basic line, 2 dimensions will have 2 (appearing as a right angle), 3 dimensions will appear as the "corner" trick, or a peace sign. 4 dimensions can be represented with an X. The sides of the X are still intact, but our brain will not comprehend the fact that opposite sides of the X are still perpendicular, not collinear. Fig. ... Line redirects here. ...

Reasoning by analogy from familiar lower dimensions can be an excellent intuitive guide, but care must be exercised not to accept results that are not more rigorously tested. For example, consider the formulas for the circumference of a circle C = 2πr and the surface area of a sphere: A = 4πr². One might be tempted to suppose that the surface volume of a hypersphere is V = 6πr³, or perhaps V = 8πr³, but either of these would be wrong. The correct formula is V = 2π²r³.

MagicCube 4D, a 4 dimensional analog of Rubik's Cube

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See also

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References

1. ^ C Møller (1952). The Theory of Relativity. Oxford UK: Clarendon Press, p. 93. ISBN 0198512562. 

External links

• Garrett Jones' tetraspace page
• Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
• 4D visualization
• TeV scale gravity, mirror universe, and ... dinosaurs Article from Acta Physica Polonica B by Z.K. Silagadze.
• Exploring Hyperspace with the Geometric Product
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• 4D Building Blocks - Interactive game to explore 4D space

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