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RE: PLATONIC SOLIDS...... Universal Geometry......Tetrahedron..Hexahedron..Octahedron..Dodecahedron..Icosahedron!
While i didn't understand much of what i read, because i'mnot so good at geometry, i did find this article interesting. and then the video on 4D. lol.. the shapes kept on messing with my mind. does 4D actually exist?
They mentioned that 3D space means you can pick any point in the space, and draw 3 axes out from that point, all of whom are perpendicular to the other 2. Easy enough to understand. But a 3D representation drawn on a 2D space (at 0:09 of the video) requires that some angles are mutated (the ones between red and yellow, for example). This is because in 2D space you cannot represent "the third axes perpendicular to the other two". However, our brains see that shape as 3D, probably because we live in a 3D world so our brain can "see" the 3 dimensional-ness of it.
Same goes for the 4D simulation. It is actually 4D, just that in a 3D space (2D, actually, since your computer screen is 2D) you can't draw all angles perpendicular to each other. Take 2:23 on the video, I think we can agree that green makes a cube, yellow too, one cube with the top shaded purple, one with the top shaded blue, one facing us with "yellow, red, green, red" vertices on top, and one at the back.
If a 2D square is made up of four 1D lines, and a 3D cube is made up of six 2D squares, what is a shape made up of six 3D cubes? 4D, of course, says my mathematical brain.
Awesome, simplified!
Yeah it's trippy the video I know. Just can't get my head around it either. 4-D exists but in a mathematical or abstract sense. We can never experience 4-D of space but we can work with it mathematically, string theory works in 11-D if i am not mistaken. 11-D? I don't want to abuse my brain, so i won't think too hard haha.
lol.. must be pretty awesome. who brought up this string theory? lol
The crazy physicist had to drop some heavy info in the conversation hahaha. Just say string theory and you seem like you know your stuff.
STRING THEORY :D
Awesome! simplified!