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HYPERSPHERES AND TESSERACTS 107 Figure 4.19 Fish in higher dimensions, by Peter Raedschelders. less book, namely to encourage in the races of solid humanity that estimable and rare virtue of humility. We will continue to appreciate Flatland more and more in the years to come. Distance Many readers will be familiar with how to compute the distance d between two points (x^y-f) and (x^Jh) on a plane:
108 <strong>surfing</strong> <strong>through</strong> hyperspace Figure 4.20 Butterflies in hyperspace, by Peter Raedschelders. (You can derive this equation by drawing diagrams and using the Pythagorean theorem, which states that the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle equals the square root of the sum of the squares of the other two sides.) Simply by adding another term, this formula can be extended so that we can compute the distance between two points in three dimensions: Similarly, we may extend this formula to 4, 5, 6, ... or k dimensions! Various scholars have debated whether humans can truly grasp the meaning of a
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surfing through hyperspace Understa
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This book is dedicated to Gillian A
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An unspeakable horror seized me. Th
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X contents Appendix E Four-Dimensio
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xii preface I first became excited
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XIV preface problems—from a four-
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XVI preface My soul is an entangled
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XVIII preface I've attempted to mak
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The trouble with integers is that w
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XXII introduction cal and national
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xxiv introduction snaps a few photo
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degrees of freedom FBI Headquarters
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DEGREES OF FREEDOM 5 Figure 1.1 A f
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DEGREES OF FREEDOM 7 Figure 1.3 A f
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DEGREES OF FREEDOM -9 1800s. Howeve
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DEGREES OF FREEDOM -11 Although phi
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DEGREES OF FREEDOM 13 angles and lo
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DEGREES OF FREEDOM 15 with other my
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DEGREES OF FREEDOM 17 Figure 1.4b K
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DEGREES OF FREEDOM 19 Figure 1.5 An
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DEGREES OF FREEDOM 21 time-like cha
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the divinity of higher dimensions F
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THE DIVINITY OF HIGHER DIMENSIONS 2
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Figure 2.9 A ball being pushed thro
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SATAN AND PERPENDICULAR WORLDS 55 a
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THE GODS OF HYPERSPACE 159 The mana
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THE GODS OF HYPERSPACE 161 Kindling
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CONCLUDING REMARKS 165 If intellige
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CONCLUDING REMARKS 167 swered. I ho
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appendix a mind-bending four-dimens
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MIND-BENDING FOUR-DIMENSIONAL PUZZL
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Figure A.3 (right). The capture of
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appendix b higher dimensions in sci
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HIGHER DIMENSIONS IN SCIENCE FICTIO
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appendix c banchoff klein bottle It
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BANCHOFF KLEIN BOTTLE 187 Figure C.
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QUARTERNIONS 189 Figure D.I author.
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FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MAZES 191 graph. T
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SMORGASBORD FOR COMPUTER JUNKIES 19
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EVOLUTION OF FOUR-DIMENSIONAL BEING
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Figure H.2 An artist's renditions o
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HYPERSPACE TITLES 213 tinctly diffe
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HYPERSPACE TITLES 215 meaningfully
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notes Only God truly exists; all ot
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notes 219 4. Unfortunately, there a
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notes 221 tiny discrete units. To q
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notes 223 less universes could be v
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notes 225 less mass, the universe e
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notes 227 Appendix C 1. For more in
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notes 229 Ben Brown suggests that 4
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further readings 231 Ehrenfest, P (
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about the author Clifford A. Pickov
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addendum As this book goes to press
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index 10-D universe, 15 Abbott, Edw
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Index 239 Slade, Henry, 123, 129 So
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