The Tesseractus or Hypercube, and hologram
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Nov
Why should space be limited to three independent directions ?, with this speculation Charle H. Hilton (1888) transgresses the idea of absolute time.
After a discussion of Kant’s ideas of absolute time, he penetrates into the deeper discussion of idealism which is the separation of object and subject.
The first postulate of this book is that the medium is no longer what separates, but what unites us to the object, builds further on a consequence: “The next step after having formed this power of contraction in a wider space is to investigate the nature, and see what phenomena are to be explained by the four-dimensional relationship, “which he will develop in his book until he gets to the hologram’s foresight:” And so with arrangements of superior space. We can not “put them in fact,” but we can say how they would look and be at the touch of various sides, “which may be seen as the foresight of a great hologram, but with the possibility of being touched.
Just as the Cube actually has 6 faces, a fourth dimension would not only be 6 cubes, but 7 cubes, thus forming the fourth dimension, it is from this that one can think of the hologram that is spatially and with the possibility of touch (haptics) it becomes a hypercube of spatial volumetric images.
Christus Hypercubus by Salvador Dali is this fourth dimension view, that placing it in a hologram and showing its reconstruction in 3D cubes constituted a stage of the current work, still not having the connection with the environment of the Multimodal Art Gallery and the possibilities of be tactile (the haptics).
Salvador Dali’s painting can be thought of as an image in the fourth dimension, or the hologram depicting in Salvador Dali’s Christus Hypercubus.
Quantum physics is connected to this idea because Heisenberg was one of the first to announce this break with the idea of absolute space, thus creating a dimension superior to three-dimensional space.
Hilton, C. H. (1888). A New Era of Thought, Londres: S. Sonnenschein & Co.
