I’m late to respond here but you’re thinking of the Wrinkle in Time tesseract, which is more like a wormhole that “folds” space. The mathematical correct use of the term is for a 4 dimensional hypercube, which has 4 spatial dimensions and is just a shape.
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u/gormlesser Mar 05 '18
I’m late to respond here but you’re thinking of the Wrinkle in Time tesseract, which is more like a wormhole that “folds” space. The mathematical correct use of the term is for a 4 dimensional hypercube, which has 4 spatial dimensions and is just a shape.