four-dimensional space theme
We are shown, or at least made to contemplate, a world in which we have willful access to four spatial dimensions rather than the three we are accustomed to.
9 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| rbt1985e6x03 | choice | A couple giving birth used a novel technology to transport their baby out of the mother's womb. Due to an unfortunate malfunction, the baby ended up garbled in a higher dimensional space. It ended up appearing as a blue pyramid in our usual three dimensions. |
| tz1959e3x26 | choice | Openings appeared through which people could enter and move in a fourth dimension somehow. |
| movie: Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) | major | A main novelty of the film is that the seven strangers were trapped inside a vast four-dimensional cube, or hypercube. |
| shortstory: The Appendix and the Spectacles (1928) | major | Bookstrom removed the businessman Cladgett's appendix without cutting him open by using a surgery machine that allowed him to access the fourth dimension. |
| shortstory: The Captured Cross-section (1929) | major | The story follows Jiles Heagley as he searches for his fiancée Sheila in a four-dimensional world. This world he experiences in terms of three-dimensional cross sections. Also, it was populated by flesh-and-blood four-dimensional people. |
| shortstory: The Four-dimensional Roller Press (1927) | major | Young genius William James Sidelburg invented that could compress or expands objects by manipulating them in their fourth dimension. He used it to expand a steel cylinder, the monkey Jocko, and finally himself. |
| futurama6x15 | minor | The Planet Express crew got swallowed up into a zone of 4D space. |
| movie: Flatland (2007) | minor | After visiting the three-dimensional Spaceland, A Square hypothesized the existence of an even grander four-dimensional world, and didn't stop there. |
| novel: The Time Machine (1895) | minor | The Time Traveler briefly recapitulated Simon Newcomb's attempt to construct a mathematical theory of 4D space. |