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The inner sphere is not defined as centered on the cube; it is defined as touching all the other spheres. That said, there is a symmetry argument that if it we
by spenczar5 5y ago
The inner sphere is not defined as centered on the cube; it is defined as touching all the other spheres.
That said, there is a symmetry argument that if it were centered anywhere else, something is wrong. But that only works if there is only one unique sphere that touches all the other spheres, which is also not obvious to me in higher dimensions.
- Dylan16807 5y agoYou can go ahead and define it as centered on the cube. That still demonstrates the strange nature of high-dimensional spheres even if there wasn't a unique solution for touching all the other spheres.
- spenczar5 5y agoAha! Right, this is pretty convincing to me. Thanks!