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Higher Dimensional Aliens

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Tesseract

Tesserax was popularized by Marvel Comics movies and made an appearance as an alien probe in Threshold, a short-lived sci-fi show from 2005. A Tesseract turned at the right angle just looks like a cube. If you were walking around on a cube shaped planet or construct, it would have 6 faces, two for each dimension,. but a Tesseract or 4th cube actually has 8 cubes for its surface. What would be disorienting and is moving around 1 or watching someone do it?

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