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I found this video explaining quaternions to actually be a great way to explain (and visualize) higher spatial dimensions: https://youtu.be/d4EgbgTm0Bg https://
by nkrisc 3y ago
I found this video explaining quaternions to actually be a great way to explain (and visualize) higher spatial dimensions: https://youtu.be/d4EgbgTm0Bg https://youtu.be/d4EgbgTm0Bg
When you think about the nth dimension as a projection of the n+1th dimension, it begins to make a lot more sense. That doesn’t mean you can necessarily visualize the 4th spatial dimension directly, but you can at least visualize how the 3rd dimension can be a projection of the 4th, just like how we can easily see that the 2nd dimension as a projection of the third.
- withinboredom 3y agoThere was a paper that showed “bee dances” were very similar to some 6th dimensional shapes projected into 3d. IIRC, it was retracted due to people not taking it seriously and making it into a joke (maybe it was, but I wouldn’t know). But anyway, people who can visualize more than 3 dimensions should be considered magical wizards.