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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The problem I think you are having is determining the difference between a 3+1 dimensional and a 4 dimensional situation. The former is a physical description of the universe and the latter a mathematical construction with no proven relevance to the physical universe.

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