Re: OT hypercube (was: Con-other)

In a message dated 5/31/2008 10:25:36 AM Central Daylight Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:


> Or our view of the titular structure in in
> the Heinlein story "And he built a crooked house", where each room was
> a cube of a tesseract.
>
> Imagine that you are a 2d critter walking around the surface of a
> cube.  The angle change at the directions is completely invisible to
> you, so all you see is six square rooms, four in a line N-S, with one
> east and one west of the second-to-southernmost room.  Perfectly
> normal-looking, but they have magic doors!  If you stand in the south
> room facing south and look through its southern door, you find
> yourself looking into the north room from its north door - wraparound!
> Which is spooky enough.  But if you stand in the north room looking
> east through its eastern door, you find yourself looking into the
> eastern side room - facing WEST!
>
Heinlein's story house had doors that exited onto nothingness (or maybe the
cosmos, not sure).

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