What is the name of a four-dimensional representational object in our three dimensional world? - I read the name somewhere a while ago but can't remember it for the life of me and it's bugging me like trying to remember the name of a forgotten song..... If someone can give me the answer I'll send you a banana.
I feel like jumping up and down and saying I know this one... But somehow it escapes me at the moment.
Bastard. You almost got me fired for laughing out loud at that one. The word is hypersurface, btw, but you're all probably thinking of tesseract., which is a 4D cube. On the subject of tesseracts, anyone who hasn't read it should find a copy of Heinlein's short story "There Was A Crooked House".
I believe the word (mathematical, by the way) is: hyperquartenon. However, you've got it backwards. There's no such thing as a 'representational object' having 4 dimensions. The specific nomenclature for 4 dimensions derives simply from applying the fourth dimension (time) to our ordinary 3-d regular platonic shapes.
