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From: jeffh@brl-sem.ARPA (the Shadow)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Rubik's 4x4x4(x4) cube
Message-ID: <393@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 08:33:57 EDT
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Reply-To: jeffh@brl-sem (VLD/VMB) (the Shadow)
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>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.

All right, I stand (or, more accurately, sit) corrected.  I'd still like
to see somebody build one.  Who knows?  Maybe it is possible to design a
special-relativistic cube which travels backwards through time and falls
*up* when you drop it. :-)

	"Meddle not in the affairs of wizards ...
		... they get soggy and clog the drains"

			the Shadow
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