Eli5 What exactly is a tesseract?

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Please explain like I’m actually 5. I’m scientifically illiterate.

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A tesseract is a 4 dimensional cube.

If you think of a square drawn on a piece of paper as 2 dimensional and then a box as 3 dimensional, a tesseract is the same thing projected into 4 dimensions.

It’s hard to visualize as we’re not wired that way, but there are some [decent examples](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tesseract.gif) of this expressed in 3 dimensions.

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