[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban-beginners Digest V5 #63

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 4/30/2006 4:23:13 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> On 4/29/06, c k <letsclimbhigher@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Maybe I have my dimensions screwed up, but I thought that they went like:
> >
> > 1 - point
> > 2 - line
> > 3 - plane
> > 4 - cube
> > 5 - time
>
> A point has no dimensions, a line has one, a plane two, a cube three.
> Time can be considered as a fourth dimension in space-time, along with
> the three spatial dimensions (height, width and depth).


But time should not be included in this kind of list.  It is not a spatial dimension.  
The appropriate term for item 5 instead of time would be "tesseract", i.e., a four-dimensional hypercube.

stevo