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What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?

Maggie Miller explains why our intuition about three dimensions breaks down in four, and how she visualizes 4D spaces as a reel of three-dimensional snapshots. The post What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?

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