Difference between revisions of "Talk:Tesseract"
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Could you rephrase that in a complete sentence without non-words like "definitivy" and then explain why this concept is encyclopedic? [[User:Claude|Claude]] 14:21, 6 December 2007 (EST) | Could you rephrase that in a complete sentence without non-words like "definitivy" and then explain why this concept is encyclopedic? [[User:Claude|Claude]] 14:21, 6 December 2007 (EST) | ||
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| + | The tesseract is a mathematical concept (I will add a link to a more detailed page). It was used in L'Engle's book, which is how most people become acquanted with it. [[User:Boomcoach|Boomcoach]] 14:22, 6 December 2007 (EST) | ||
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| + | The tesseract is a construct in multidimensional geometry. Useful in mathmatics but a bit hard for an understandable definition. In L'engles book the tesseract was used to move from earth to other planets. The implication was that many remarkable things are possible with a greater understanding of the universe. I consider it more a fictional device in the book rather than a reality based thing. When the book was written it may have been much more unusual. There was also a movie based on construction of a hypercube. [[User:Markr|Markr]] 19:28, 17 October 2008 (EDT) | ||
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I don't want to step on toes, while this page is being created, but it would be better to say that a tesseract can be "depicted in three dimensions as a cube suspended inside another cube, with connections at each if the corresponding vertices." The three dimensional representation is not an actual tesseract, any more than a drawing of a cube on a flat piece of paper is actually a cube. Boomcoach 14:05, 6 December 2007 (EST)
What exactly is this article about?
Is this something from a children's book or something? Claude 14:16, 6 December 2007 (EST)
Sort of, the theory was used in a wrinkle in time though definitivy not elaborated upon.
Could you rephrase that in a complete sentence without non-words like "definitivy" and then explain why this concept is encyclopedic? Claude 14:21, 6 December 2007 (EST)
The tesseract is a mathematical concept (I will add a link to a more detailed page). It was used in L'Engle's book, which is how most people become acquanted with it. Boomcoach 14:22, 6 December 2007 (EST)
The tesseract is a construct in multidimensional geometry. Useful in mathmatics but a bit hard for an understandable definition. In L'engles book the tesseract was used to move from earth to other planets. The implication was that many remarkable things are possible with a greater understanding of the universe. I consider it more a fictional device in the book rather than a reality based thing. When the book was written it may have been much more unusual. There was also a movie based on construction of a hypercube. Markr 19:28, 17 October 2008 (EDT)