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  • s  involving or relating to the fourth dimension or time

  • It's an expression the Tralfamadorians a race of four-dimensional aliens repeat whenever somebody or something dies.
  • Musing on the inexplicable nature of a tesseract (an unfolded four-dimensional cube), Alfredo thinks, "A hypercube is a thing you are not equipped to understand.
  • Now imagine this happening in the four-dimensional fabric of space and time.
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  • Goodbye Big Bang, Hello Black Hole? A New Theory Of The Universe’s Creation
    Could the famed “Big Bang” theory need a revision? A group of theoretical physicists suppose the birth of the universe could have happened after a four-dimensional star collapsed into a black hole and ejected debris. Before getting into their findings, let’s just preface this by saying nobody knows anything for sure. Humans obviously weren’t around at […]
    Sept. 18, 2013 - Universe Today
  • Study: Our 3D Universe Could Have Originated From a 4D Black Hole
    New submitter TaleSlinger sends this quote from Nature: "Afshordi's team realized that if the bulk universe contained its own four-dimensional (4D) stars, some of them could collapse, forming 4D black holes in the same way that massive stars in our Universe do: they explode as supernovae, violently ejecting their outer layers, while their inner layers collapse into a black hole. In our Universe ...
    Sept. 15, 2013 - Slashdot

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