eli5: what is 4D space?

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I just dont know what Is 4D space and i can’t imagine it…

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4D space isn’t something that we can intuitively imagine because it’s not a part of our sensory perception.

There are various ways to think about it though. For example, imagine you need to graph something in 4 dimensions. If you know what a 3D plot looks like, imagine you add color to the data being plotted. The color is the 4th dimension.

Another way to visualize it in your mind is by imagining a cube. The cube is 3D. Now imagine there are infinitely many more cubes to its left and right (like a number line, but made of cubes instead of numbers), that’s 4D space.

If the 4th dimension were time, you can imagine each 3D cube as one specific moment in time.

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