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    This document explains the concept of the fourth dimension by describing how moving lower dimensional objects (points, lines, surfaces) through space generates higher dimensional objects (lines, surfaces, solids). It argues that if a three-dimensional solid were moved through a new dimension, it would generate a four-dimensional figure possessing the three dimensions of the solid plus a fourth dimension. The document uses figures to illustrate how a point moving through space forms a line, a line moving forms a surface, and a surface moving forms a solid.

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    This document explains the concept of the fourth dimension by describing how moving lower dimensional objects (points, lines, surfaces) through space generates higher dimensional objects (lines, surfaces, solids). It argues that if a three-dimensional solid were moved through a new dimension, it would generate a four-dimensional figure possessing the three dimensions of the solid plus a fourth dimension. The document uses figures to illustrate how a point moving through space forms a line, a line moving forms a surface, and a surface moving forms a solid.

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    This document explains the concept of the fourth dimension by describing how moving lower dimensional objects (points, lines, surfaces) through space generates higher dimensional objects (lines, surfaces, solids). It argues that if a three-dimensional solid were moved through a new dimension, it would generate a four-dimensional figure possessing the three dimensions of the solid plus a fourth dimension. The document uses figures to illustrate how a point moving through space forms a line, a line moving forms a surface, and a surface moving forms a solid.

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    THE FOURTH DIMENSION SIMPLY EXPLAINED

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    Figures 1 and 2
    Two separate figures illustrating prinicples relevant to this section of the essay. Fig. 1 is a moving point, P, through space generates a line which has one dimension -- length. Fig. 2 is a moving line, A B, generates a surface having two dimensions -- length and breadth.

    -- length. Now, let us move the line thus made through space. It generates a surface (Fig. 2), and we notice that our surface possesses the one dimension of the line and also a second dimension -- breadth. From a line possessing one dimension we have generated a surface with two dimensions. Now, if we move our surface through space it will generate a solid (Fig. 3). This possesses the length and breadth of the surface and, in addition to these, a third dimension -thickness. From a point, then, we have generated a line with one
    Page 221 dimension; from a line we have generated a surface with two dimensions, and from a surface with two dimensions we have generated a solid with three dimensions. We have generated each of these in turn from a form possessing one less dimension by motion through a new dimension. Reasoning from this we conclude that if we could move our solid through a new dimension a figure would be generated which possessed not only the length, breadth, and thickness of the solid, but, in addition to these, still another

    Figures 3 and 4
    Two separate figures illustrating prinicples relevant to this section of the essay. Fig. 3: Moving surface, A B C D, generates a solid which has three dimensions -- length, breadth, and thickness. Fig. 4:To determine point P on a line we measure from zero to the point, obtaining one number.

    dimension. Such a figure would possess four dimensions, and the existence of such a figure would require the existence of a fourth dimension. It is by reasoning of this kind that the idea of a fourth dimension has been developed. Now, let us take a line and see why the term one-dimensional is applied to it. On a line, the position of a point and, therefore, the point itself, is determined when its distance from an arbitrarily chosen point on the line, the zero point, is known. We find this distance by measuring, in terms of the unit of length, from zero to the point P (Fig. 4), in just the same
    Page 222 manner as we measure temperatures on a thermometer scale, the zero point of which has been arbitrarily fixed. One number, then, determines the position of our point. Now, a line may be considered as consisting of an infinite

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