If you’re struggling to wrap your head around the idea of further dimensions, this scientist’s garden-hose analogy may help.

Greene offers up a garden hose as a good example of what the fourth dimension looks like. From far away, this garden hose may ...

THE fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry have achieved a prominence quite unprecedented for mathematical topics. In train, bus and tram, over lunch and at the theatre, intelligent man is ...

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Theoretical physicists believe math shows the possibilities of a fourth dimension, but there’s no actual evidence—yet. Albert Einstein believed space and time made up a fourth dimension. An example ...

The book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott explores the concept of physical dimensions through characters who encounter higher-dimensional beings. The protagonist, “A. Square,” ...

THERE are few fallacies which have done more to mislead the unscientific public than the misconception known as the fourth dimension. The use of this term is calculated to convey the false impressions ...