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Hinton cubes

Hinton s disciples spent days mediating on the cubes until some thought they could mentally reassemble these cubes in the fourth dimension—thus achieving nirvana. Figure 4.7 shows an unraveled hypercube. Although the cubes of this tesseract seem static, a 4-D person can fold the cubes into a hypercube by lifting each individual cube off our universe into the fourth dimension. Note that Hinton used the words ana and kata in the same way I use the terms upsilon and delta to describe motions in the 4-D world as counterparts for terms like up and down. (I find that upsilon and delta are easier to remember than ana and kata because of the up in upsilon and d in delta.)... [Pg.99]


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