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[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Four dimensional? That is a tesseract. This is impossible to describe how an ant would even interact with let alone touch all eight cells only once.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Once done with the first cube, the ant takes a gondola, going along the 4th dimension and repeats the walk he did on the first cube.

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The ant is a mathematical metaphor - a point that can trace a path along any surface and can cross to another surface only by crossing an edge, but cannot leave the surface.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's not hard to imagine a 2d square sliding across a 3d surface or a line traveling across a 2d plane so an ant travelling across a 4d surface is not that weird.