4-D Questions
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- List some examples where the fourth dimension may be found in popular culture. Think about movies, books, etc.
- Think of jobs that would be different if some or all of us had accesss to a fourth dimension. If a select number of people could move into a space-like 4th dimension, could we stop them from robbing a bank for instance? How would the police deal with this? Can you think of other jobs or entertainment that would change?
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Group 1
Mark 20:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC) Heinlein - 'And He built a Crooked House' - architect builds unfolded tesseract earthquake in night folds it up
Cube 2: Hypercube movie about people trapped in a folded up tesseract building (from above ?)
Flatland Movies --> the newest and slickest www.flatlandthemovie.com is about 38 min. slightly older at www.flatlandthefilm.com is over an hour but closer to the book. Plus a couple others floating around too
There are 2 books by Tony Robbin Shadows of Reality and fourfield: Computers, Art & the 4th Dimension in the latter be sure to get the 9 tessellated hypercubes and the red & blue stereo glasses for 3-D!
Bill: Not completely sure this belongs here but check out http://www.geometrygames.org/ particularly the torus games. Jeff Week's book SHAPE OF SPACE is also recommended.
Group 2
Group 3
If you watch the tv series "Lost," there is a lot of talk of time travel. One of the characters was named Minkowski, and another is Faraday.
I was thinking that time lapse photography might be a way of representing the 4th dimension.
A time-lapse photo of the video game Tempest.
The CN tower over a period of hours.
[Dimensions.] This is a free video and a lot of the material is on dimensions. It looks pretty good!
[[1]] I wondered what juggling in four dimensions would look like. This website has two links that show time lapse photos of juggling with light. - Debbie
Group 4
Books
1. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle.
2. Dr. Pak's Preschool by David Brin.
3. Fantasia Mathematica is a series of short stories. One is 'And he built a Crooked House' by Robert Heinlein. The man builds a 4 dimensional house. You can read the beginning of this online at Google books.
4. Factoring Humanity by Robert Sawyer. Decoding messages from aliens that allow them to build a hypercube to explore the fourth dimension. Check it out at Google books.
Movies
1. Movies like Star Trek where they talk about parallel universes.
Other Notes
1. In the 4th dimension Heather would join Christine in her mountain climbing and cave dwelling expeditions, because traveling would be easier and there would be no way to get stuck!
2. Tall skyscrapers built to sway in the wind - 3-dimensions + time.
Group 5
- Some movies: "Cube 2: Hypercube", "Deja Vu" (time as 4th dimension), "Groundhog Day", "What the Bleep do we know?!", "Minority Report"
- Books: "Sphereland", "Planiverse" (another look at a 2-dimensional world), time-travel reference in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
- TV: "Sliders", "Quantum Leap"
- Jobs that would be easier with access to a 4th dimension: coal mining (and any other mining). Laying telephone wires. Repairing wiring inside the walls.
- What is the shape of the universe?
- List of time-traveling TV shows: [2]
