Quote (Act1 @ May 18 2011 01:17am)
How in the world can the 4th dimension reflect a 3d object?
A tesseract is not the actual reflection of a 4-D object, it's just what the reflection would LOOK like.
Quote (Wowzers @ May 18 2011 12:31am)
So hes explaining how 2nd dimension is left and right, 3rd demension is left right up down but no one really know what the 4th demension is? And what could people mean by saying "moving into the 4th demension"?
You can't "move into" the 4th dimension. Objects in the 3rd can't interact with objects in the 4th, just as objects in the 2nd can't interact with objects in the 3rd. Referring to Sagan's example, the 2-D "Flat-land" person doesn't realize that the 3-D "apple person" is 3-D; the 2-D person only sees a plane of the 3-D person at a time. I'm not entirely certain what a theoretical 4-D person would see when looking down on a 3-D world. The link that I provided explains it much better than I could.