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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Rubik's 4x4x4(x4) cube
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 14:38:53 EDT
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> I wonder how you'd BUILD it.  After all, mathematicians and physicists
> can't agree on what the fourth dimension is, let alone how one would
> create an object in 4-space.

Oh, boo, Jeff.  In the context of Rubik cubes the special-relativistic
time dimension (I assume that's what you refer to) has nothing to do
the the spatial dimensionality of the cube.  Sure, one can't construct
a 4-dimensional hypercube, but its properties can be and have been
studied nonetheless.