Virtual reality game lets you play with hypercubes in four dimensions

By Leah Crane

Marc ten Bosch

We may not be able to step into the fourth dimension of space, but a new formulation of the physics of objects in many dimensions can help us understand what it would be like.

While it’s fairly easy to picture a one-dimensional or two-dimensional object, and we interact with 3D objects every day, making the leap into four dimensions is difficult. The 19th century novella Flatland imagined how beings on a 2D plane might perceive 3D objects, but scaling that up into more dimensions is not particularly intuitive.

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