• Siethron@lemmy.world
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      We’ve never seen anything 2 dimensional. Everything we can see has some form of all 3 dimensions in it. Even shadows are 3 dimensional. We conceptualize them as 2 dimensional on a wall, but they have depth. (Think of how when you see a line it’s actually 2 dimensional due to the width of the line, then apply that concept to depth as well)

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      And this is a 2d projection of a 3d projection of a basic 4d shape that we literally cannot comprehend

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      Two dimensional projections can be represented in three dimensional space. Even single dimensional entities are welcome here.

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        If you look at a sheet of paper on edge, you can see a poor man’s representation of one dimension, while hiding an additional dimension, made in the only way you can actually have a thing to hold with yet one more

        Edit: make guillotines great again, or whatever the tesseract deems uncouth