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From: sleeper@netidea.com.NO.SPAM.PLEASE (Sleeper)
Subject: Re: HyperCube (Diamond Explained)
Date: 1997/06/14
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Rumor has it that on Fri, 13 Jun 1997 21:59:50 -0500, Kevin Kreamer
<kreamer@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




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