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On average, how many hit dice will it take to level a city and survive?

How many licks does it take to finish an entire Tootsie Pop, including the center?

How much of the earth's mass would have to be converted to cause fragments of it to travel at relativistic speeds?

Actually, there's already quite enough meteors and comets and UFOs zipping around out there. More interstellar traffic congestion is quite undesireable.

Sylkat

How many graduation parties will I actually go to?

Is it a crime if someone obliterates Charon?

I know it's impossible (for now) for us to visualize it, but I wonder how the fourth dimension looks like. (As in the fourth dimension of space, not the dimension of time.)

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My nephew Coke needs to eat! Obviously we're related.

Why impossible? Functionally 2-D electronics can and do model 3-D objects. Imagine what 3-D neural networks can do...

Hmm... You've got a point there.

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My nephew Coke needs to eat! Obviously we're related.

Vision would likely be restricted to, "slices," such that it would be possible to see the interior volumes and exterior volumes of objects by moving around.

Yes, I am aware of that. I just wonder what it's like to completely visualize a four-dimensional figure. All we can see of a four-dimensional figure (if one where to exist) is similar to the way a two-dimensional creature would see a sphere falling into their world as a circle that somehow appeared, grew, shrank, and disappeared.

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My nephew Coke needs to eat! Obviously we're related.

There was a book somewhere about seeing the effects of the fourth spatial dimension. One part involved a pet 4-rodent eating from a 3-container by moving upsilon or delta into the container and exiting in a similar way.

If you don't mind me asking, what exactly do you mean by "upsilon" and "delta"? I'm guessing it's the four-dimensional version of "up" and "down"? In the book I'm reading, they call it "ana" and "kata" though...

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Yes.

It would be so fun to move things in four dimensions! It would even be possible to reverse the chirality of anything with a simple rotation!

It certainly would.

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I wonder how it would feel to be translated a few meters along the w axis, rotated around the right axis, and translated back. Would it be possible to know of the reflection at all considering the fact that the everything (including the motor and sensory nerves and their configuration) was reflected.