reply to post by waffleprime
Lets hold out a cube in front of 1st,2nd,3rd and 4th dimensional beings...
A being in the 1st dimension,a 1 dimensional being,would only be able to see 1 side of the cube,no matter how, no matter what angle they were looking
at it from,thats all they would be able to see,1 side and they would only be able to move backwards and forwards...Or...Only left and right,they would
not be able to move both ways and when seen from our 3 dimensional perspectives,they would appear as a flat,thin line...
A being in the 2nd dimension,a 2 dimensional being,would only be able to see 2 sides of the cube and they would only be able to move forwards and
backwards... and... left and right,they would not be able to move up or down and when seen from our 3 dimensional perspectives,they would appear like
a person drawn on a piece of paper...
A being in the 3rd dimension,a 3 dimensional being,you and i,can only see 3 sides of the cube,its length,width and height.We cannot see a fourth side
of the cube,even if we change our position,we are still only able to see 3 sides at any one time.Looking at the cube from any angle and from any
perspective,we cannot see more than 3 of its sides at a time...
A being in the 4th dimension,a 4 dimensional being,would be able to see 4 sides of the cube at the same time.if a 4th dimensional being were within
our 3 dimensional world,they would be able to see through and around the cube and when seen from our 3 dimensional perspectives,they would appear to
be able to walk through solid objects,time travel at will,while moving in and out of our visible spectrum,flying without wings...
edit on 17-5-2012 by blocula because: (no reason given)