![]() ![]() Building something so ambitious has consumed ten Bosch's life. The game, essentially a series of puzzles, augments the usual arsenal of in-game movement by allowing the player's avatar, with the press of a button, to travel along the fourth spatial dimension. Mathematician Rudy Rucker wrote that he had spent 15 years trying to imagine 4-D space and been granted for his labors “perhaps 15 minutes' worth of direct vision” of it.īut for the past five years, ten Bosch has been trying to take us directly into it, in the form of a videogame called Miegakure. People have written papers, drawn diagrams, taken psychedelics, but what we really want to do is witness it. Still, most of us are no closer to fundamentally comprehending the fourth dimension than we were when Riemann first conceived it. Cubism was in part an attempt by Picasso and others to visualize what fourth-dimensional creatures might see. Wells' Invisible Man disappeared by discovering a way to travel along it. Writers from Wilde to Proust, Dostoevsky to Conrad invoked the fourth dimension in their work. Mathematician Bernhard Riemann came up with the concept in the 19th century, and physicists, artists, and philosophers have struggled with it ever since. From this fourth dimension, we would be able to see every angle of the three-dimensional world at once, much as we three-dimensional beings can take in the entirety of a two-dimensional plane. ![]() Most of us think of time as the fourth dimension, but modern physics theorizes that there is a fourth spatial dimension as well-not width, height, or length but something else that we can't experience through our physical senses. They're all devoted to helping our brains break out of the three dimensions in which we exist, to aid our understanding of a universe that extends beyond our perception. A young-adult novel called The Boy Who Reversed Himself. The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art. Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty That Causes Havoc. There's a row of books on a shelf in Marc ten Bosch's living room that contains a crash course in higher dimensions. ![]()
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