stackyFACTSMathematicians casually discuss fourth and fifth dimensions as if they are simply extra rooms in an entirely normal house. Meanwhile, the human mind immediately crashes attempting to picture a hypercube, violently rejecting anything that cannot explicitly be built with basic cardboard boxes.
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