Re: HyperCube (Diamond Explained)
From Sleeper <sle...@netidea.com.NO.SPAM.PLEASE>
· alt.ascii-art
· 14 Jun 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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Rumor has it that on Fri, 13 Jun 1997 21:59:50 -0500, Kevin Kreamer
<kre...@centraltx.net> wrote:
% Benjamin Francisco P. wrote:
% A cube in our world is a hypercube only if its length along the 4-D
% is equal to the lengths along the other 3 dimensions. Otherwise, its a
% hyper-rectangle. Time is the "official" fourth dimension, according to
% Einstein and physicists following him. Einstein saw the universe as a
% complete 4-D continuum, where you can "turn" it, and the fourth
% dimension will take the place of another one of the dimensions -- kinda
% like if you turn a regular cube, the width becomes the length or the
% height depending on which way you turn it. We can then represent a
% hypercube after we come up with a way to reconcile the time/length
% difference -- come up with a way to convert between meters and minutes,
% for instance.
The answer is...42!
Sorry, sorry, sometimes I just can't help myself. Trying to imagine a line 6
hours long blew my mind.
Does this mean that a hypercube could only exist for X secs before colapsing
into a "regular" cube?
Where X secs = 2 metres.
Or are all hypercubes really hyperRectangles until the end of time?
<shakes head vigorously to clear the clutter>
I'm getting a headache, I think I'll go read some nice, simple cultural
anthropology or something.
Sleeper
"It tasted better when I thought it was deer meat."
-over heard at a soup kitchen serving tofu chilie.
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