Why is the “Fourth Dimensional” representation of a cube a tesseract? If time is a dimension shouldn’t the higher dimensional representation of an object be it’s worldline/timeline?

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Why is the “Fourth Dimensional” representation of a cube a tesseract? If time is a dimension shouldn’t the higher dimensional representation of an object be it’s worldline/timeline?

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While time is considered a dimension, it’s not quite the same thing as dimensions regarding physical objects. Where a tesseract, or an object constructed with sides of 3-dimensional sides, is a physical, interactive thing; time (while technically interactive), is more of an “observable” dimension.

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