What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?
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Mathematician Maggie Miller at the University of Texas at Austin explains how knots behave unexpectedly in four-dimensional space—where knots can always come undone while ordinary surfaces like spheres can become knotted in ways that cannot be undone—and discusses the visual techniques she uses to picture 4D spaces.
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