Playing Minecraft in 4D
<p>It’s really damn hard to envision a fourth dimension of space.</p>
<p>I tried! For years. I read <a href="https://www.math.ksu.edu/~cjbalm/570s14/flatland.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Flatland</em></a><em> </em>as a kid, and it fried my noodle. In that famous book — a “romance of many dimensions” — the narrator is a square who lives in a 2D world, filled with 2D creatures. He has no idea that a third dimension could even <em>exist</em>, until one day a 3D sphere floats down to visit.</p>
<p>The sphere talks to the square, and tries to explain how the third dimension works. But the square has absolutely no mental model for grasping such a concept.</p>
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