Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 1 of 2. Tesseract. A generalization of the cube to dimensions greater than three is called a "hypercube", "n-cube" or "measure polytope".[1] The tesseract is the four-dimensional hypercube, or 4-cube.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word tesseract was coined and first used in 1888 by Charles Howard Hinton in his book A New Era of Thought, from the Greek τέσσερεις ακτίνες ("four rays"), referring to the four lines from each vertex to other vertices.[2] In this publication, as well as some of Hinton's later work, the word was occasionally spelled "tessaract.
" Some people[citation needed] have called the same figure a tetracube, and also simply a hypercube (although a tetracube can also mean a polycube made of four cubes, and the term hypercube is also used with dimensions greater than 4). Philosophie Forum - Was ist die fünfte Dimension ? Und die sechste ? Und..... Nein, sind sie nicht.
Es existieren in der Realität lediglich drei vollends nachweisbare Dimensionen des Raumes. Die Zeit als mysteriöse vierte ist ein reines Gedankenkonstruktum, ein Instrumentarium zwecks Beschreibung des Naturgeschehens, jedoch keinesfalls im realen Leben zu beobachten oder anderweitig zu konstatieren.