FUN WITH CUBES

You know them, you love them, you can't live without them. All Republican brains are shaped like cubes, except for Libertarian ones, which are shaped liked dice.

The cube has 6 faces, each made up of a square. A square by itself is not a cube, but it is the 2-dimensional world's analog of a cube. It is the closest thing to a cube the 2-dimensional people can muster.

The tesseract is the 4-dimensional world's cube. Well, actually, the cube is our analog of a tesseract. It's the best we can do. Our cube is made up of squares, but a tesseract is made up of cubes. Our cube, with its 6 square faces make up the tesseract, which has 8 faces, each one a cube.

Now try to visualize it…..Hard, ain't it? It's easier if you relax and get rid of the square walls of your mind. Also, reefer.

This is a picture of a shadow of a tesseract. The red face (which is a cube) is the nearest one, believe it or not. It is not a tesseract, nor even is it a shadow of one. Keep in mind that the tesseract is a 4-dimensional object and as such would cast a 3-dimensional shadow. In fact, all tesseracts are casting shadows at this very moment. They're called cubes.

Don't feel bad. A 2-dimensional person can't even imagine a cube. All it can grasp is the square, because that's the only part of the cube that juts into its reality. You are just like the 2-dimensional person, only one notch up.

Everything you see is just part of the story.