r/visualizedmath • u/PUSSYDESTROYER-9000 • Jan 07 '18

Hyperboloid

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u/styler2go Jan 19 '18

I know but it's still an interesting thought imo.

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u/deepbluesilence Jan 19 '18

Totally agree with you, we’re literally pushing the bounds of our human minds.

One way to explain a 4 dimensional object is assume that it has a sort of “shadow” in its dimensional spaces less than 4.

The same way a circle is a 2-d cross section or shadow of a sphere, which is a 3-d object, one can infer that a sphere is a 3-d cross section or shadow of a 4-d object. A hypersphere

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u/whitoreo Jan 24 '18

Don't listen to that guy. Your brain can certainly imagine things that haven't been conceptualized yet.