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THE FOURTH DIMENSION
colours white, yellow, red, blue, to denote transferences in
each of the four directions—right, away, up, unknown or
fourth dimension.
Hence, as the plane being must represent the solid regions,
he would come to by going right, as four squares lying
in some position in
his plane, arbitrarily
chosen, side by side
with his original four
squares, so we must
represent those eight
x
four-dimensional regions,
which we
should come to by
Fig. 99.
A plane being’s representation of a block
of eight cubes by two sets of four squares.
going in the fourth
dimension from
each of our eight
cubes, by eight cubes placed in some arbitrary position
relative to our first eight cubes.
x
(1)
Orange hidden
Fig. 100.
Purple
Blue
Green
Light
purple
Light
blue
Light
green
(2)
Brown hidden
Light
brown
Our representation of a block of sixteen tesseracts by
two blocks of eight cubes. *
Hence, of the two sets of eight cubes, each one will serve
* The eight cubes used here in 2 can be found in the second of the
model blocks. They can be taken out and used.