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Liv:have you guys noticed that the tesseract is becoming the theme in ALL of these science movies? how its plays a role in consciousness? trying to make a connection in the importance of it?
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no-mans-land
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Tigersoap said:
Yeah, another one is "Cube 2 - Hypercube" (a bad horror movie from 2002). Or the "tesseract" from the SciFi Series "Andromeda" (2000 until 2005). Appart from that, I am not aware that others used such an object for a movie.
Also featured prominently in the marvel movies:
http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Tesseract
And the movie "Cube 2: Hypercube"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285492/
But in a non-fiction world, this is a hypercube:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercube
It's just a multi-dimensional version of a cube. Not sure that there is a consciousness connection here, but the concept of how a 4-dimensional (and above) cube may appear is cool. We just can't visualize the 4th dimension of space so to us it's like drawing a cube on a flat piece of paper - without the context of the 3rd dimension, a drawing of a cube is just 2 squares connected by lines. A drawing of a hypercube looks like 2 cubes connected by lines, and we can't see it "properly" as it would really appear in 4-dimensional space.
I suppose a 4th density entity would see it correctly, and that's the only connection to "consciousness" I can think of.
Liv, just out of curiosity, why do you preface your posts with "Liv:"?
http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Tesseract
And the movie "Cube 2: Hypercube"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285492/
But in a non-fiction world, this is a hypercube:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercube
It's just a multi-dimensional version of a cube. Not sure that there is a consciousness connection here, but the concept of how a 4-dimensional (and above) cube may appear is cool. We just can't visualize the 4th dimension of space so to us it's like drawing a cube on a flat piece of paper - without the context of the 3rd dimension, a drawing of a cube is just 2 squares connected by lines. A drawing of a hypercube looks like 2 cubes connected by lines, and we can't see it "properly" as it would really appear in 4-dimensional space.
I suppose a 4th density entity would see it correctly, and that's the only connection to "consciousness" I can think of.
Liv, just out of curiosity, why do you preface your posts with "Liv:"?
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LIV
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@sao.. in college they made us respond on the blackboard in that manner and i guess its a hard habit to break .. sorry .. plus i dont know how you guys quote each other..i dont think my cell phone gives me all of the available features like a pc would ..
Ah ok! Well to quote you type [ quote=PersonBeingQuoted ] the quote goes here [ /quote ]LIV said:
just don't use spaces between inside the [ and ] for it to work. Also there's a quote button next to each post that does it for you as well.
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Dagobah Resident
I think the reason for the popularity of the tesseract is relatively simple:
1) It is a cool sounding word with lots of sibilance and consonants - it sounds hard, sharp, edgy.
2) It is a difficult to understand mathematical construct, so whenever someone wants to throw out a "profound" idea, something that is difficult to understand seems profound.
3) It is impossible to visualize, so for the CGI modelers, it is an ideal playground because they can pretty much come up with anything and have it make sense, or at least just look cool.
Frankly I doubt there is much more to it than that.
1) It is a cool sounding word with lots of sibilance and consonants - it sounds hard, sharp, edgy.
2) It is a difficult to understand mathematical construct, so whenever someone wants to throw out a "profound" idea, something that is difficult to understand seems profound.
3) It is impossible to visualize, so for the CGI modelers, it is an ideal playground because they can pretty much come up with anything and have it make sense, or at least just look cool.
Frankly I doubt there is much more to it than that.
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