Tesseract

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

Tes·ser·act (ˈte-sə-ˌrakt):
origin: coined in A New Era of Thought (1888) by C.H. Hinton, from the Greek [τέσσερεις ακτίνες] "four rays"

noun
a.k.a. "hypercube", "tetracube", "polytope"; a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces (or a four-dimensional analog of the cube). In a real tesseract, which cannot exist in our three-dimensional space, each edge would be the same length.

➝ examples of:
➀ Variating in shape, a version of the cube is found in Salvador Dalí's Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1953).
➁ A wrinkling of time allowing two points to be connected through a 5th dimension thus permitting time travel, used in the science-fiction novel A Wrinkle in Time (1973).
➂ Ancient Asgardian artifact of unimaginable power kept in Odin's chamber, referred to as "The Cosmic Cube" and featured in Marvel Comic's latest series of films -- culminating in The Avengers (2012).

*request: Could we clean out the misspelled tags, please? I volunteer, if needed.

Comments

[murielle.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

(Is it a cube? Is it an emerald cut diamond? Is it a cube ...) ;-)

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

;-)

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I should have thought to use this one. Yay math!

Cleaning up the tags is one of the tasks on my plate -- feel free to start on it if I don't get to it soon.

---L.

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

Now that's a compliment! Thanks!

I don't think my powers extend to that arena, only The Mighty prettygoodword (mod) has command of that hammer! You must be at least as tall as a maintainer to get on that ride.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

That's probably good for me to know. *adds to list of TBDs*

---L.

[teal-cuttlefish.livejournal.com]

My icon approves of this post...

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

It's like a break-dance version of mathematics. Exquisite.