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Albert A. Michelson's Great-grandson Started conversation Mar 1, 2000
A super-cube is a theoretical object.
Consider if you will a piont. It has absolutely NO dimention.
A line however has but one dimention. If a shodow is cast by a line from the proper perspective it will anso shon no dimention.
A square has two dimentions. its shadow when cast from the proper perspective will show only one dimemtion. See where i'm going with this? Advance to a cube. A three dimentional object that casts a shadow with exactly real dimentions minus one.
Now for the leap. Consider that the cube we all know and love is actually a shadow of a multi-dimentional object. It seems to fit the equation, so why not? A super-cube is a multi-dimentional (ie. more that three and were not talking about time here) theoretical object used to model reality of more that three physical dimentions.cool huh?
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