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Recently a friend of mine asked if I would provide him with information concerning tesseracts. I have been teaching about these curious objects for over 25 years to honor students. It was part of a half semester course on cosmological theory; a course which we hoped would encourage them to think deeply and logically. During all that time I never bothered to put anything down in writing, except for a brief recap once or twice. One of the reasons I had not done so was because I tend to be somewhat lazy, and if I can remember something, why bother to put it down. But this was a request from a friend whom I could not deny. However, as I was putting this in writing I decided to also include some related things which were taught during the same half semester. So here is the result, for better or worse. Obviously any error in editing or judgment is my own, for which I apologize in advance. We are going to attempt to explain, to the best of our ability via the written word, an object of the fourth dimension. This paper is not meant to be a panacea for anything. It will not solve world hunger, bring universal peace, or hail the coming of a messiah for any religion. The only thing this paper and its understanding are good for is mental exercise. But that may be a good enough end in itself. In the process of everyday living we sometimes become involved in such minutia that we become bogged down with the unimportant to the point where the important seems to be unreachable, just beyond our fingertips. We know it is there for us to grasp, but it seems to be just beyond our reach. A mental exercise such as that upon which we are about to embark can sometimes purge our thinking process. And often, after such an exercise, we will find that many of the cobwebs which had been clouding our thinking, to the point of making the understanding of our goal very obscure, have been cleared away. We may find that we can see more clearly that final thought or thought process which had been eluding us previously. With that in mind as to the why of this paper, let us begin. In order to attempt to understand something about the fourth dimension we will be using progressive mathematics. As an example: 2, 4, 6, 8, or 2, 4, 8, 16. It will be noted that this is very simple stuff. You don't want to try to read, nor I to write, one of those papers with so much mathematics involved that you can't even begin to understand the first page, let alone the entire concept the writer is trying to impart. However, there is one progressive mathematical concept for which I must apologize. It is involved to the point where I am not sure I can explain it to the reader's satisfaction. It has to do with the edges of objects. If ,when reaching ...... continued on next page Previous Page <-> Next Page |
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