What exactly do people mean when they say the universe is 4th dimensional?

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I frequently hear people say that the universe is based off of a 4th-dimensional space-time continuum. As a result, it could hypothetically do things like loop on itself if you went in one direction long enough. However, people often point out that the 4th dimension is not time, but rather an independent spacial dimension. At the same time though, they might talk about how the 4th dimension actually is time in the space-time continuum, which makes no sense to me at all. Is the 4th dimension time in the space-time continuum, or something else?

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Looping on itself is plausible, it’s a way to account for detecting anti-matter returning back to the beginning through space-time.

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