The following are links of interest to Fourth Dimensional thought on
the Web, concentrating specifically on scientific, theoretical, and historical
views of the Fourth Dimension.
Hypercube's
Home Page
By far the most exhaustive and reader-friendly of
the Fourth Dimension sites, Hypercube's Home Page offers visitors a chance
to link with the primary texts of 4-D thought (Edward Abbott's Flatland
), a well-written "What Is the Fourth Dimension
FAQ", and a theory roundtable for hardcore Dimension enthusiasts. Also,
the site's 4-D Cafe Chat allows users to share and be part of the ongoing
theoretical, mathematical, and philosophical debate of the Fourth Dimension.
Fourth Dimension
Writings, C. H. Hinton, 1884-1907
No foray into the Fourth Dimension can be complete
without a study of its earliest vocalizer, the mathematician Charles Hinton.
This site offers a brief biography of the eccentric academic (including
a mention of his legendarily sexist death), but is more important because
of its deep online selection of Hinton's writings concerning the Fourth
Dimension.
Dynamic
Space: Virtual Reality and the Fourth Dimension
A sparse but highly technical site, Dynamic Space
serves as a forum for discussion of not only the Fourth Dimension as a model,
but its place in an Internet reality. The site poses the question of time
being the Fourth Dimension and offers some linked articles in support. What
is most interesting about this site is its positioning of the Fourth Dimension
as a virtual reality -- a late-20th century classification which could be
used in further (and past) descriptions of it as space as opposed to merely
geometry.
The
Fourth Dimension
Of all the mathematically-based sites, The Fourth
Dimension is the most useful because of its links to other highly scientific
4-D based websites. Platonic solids, hypercubes, and tesseracts are among
the theoretical models both explained and discussed on this advanced site.
Highly interesting, but not for the mathematically faint-of-heart.
4-D Home Page
The 4-D home page offers its users two choices of
direction: "unfashionable" 4-D topics such as Atlantis or the
more useful choice of the place of 4-D in American architecture. Claiming
to contain over a thousand images of progressive American architecture,
the site is highly resourceful but lacks any true 4-D commentary on the
architects themselves. (Does however contain a single home by avowed Fourth
Dimensionalist Claude Bragdon).
Zach's Interdimensional
Stuff
Zach's Interdimensional Stuff is not as fringe as
it may sound; in fact, it offers neophyte peerers into the Fourth Dimension
a chance to see actual (albeit theoretical) models of what it may look like.
This site also offers a few links to not only supposedly incontrovertible
proof on why the Fourth Dimension exists, but also to downloadable images
such as a rotating hypercube (the mathematical model of the Fourth Dimension).
As a research tool, this site offers most in the way not of hard science
or artistic application, but of layman explanation (with pictures, no less).
