stackyFACTSYou cannot visualize a tesseract because human perception is strictly locked in three spatial dimensions. It is the geometric equivalent of drawing a cube out of multiple regular squares, except it projects straight into an axis of reality we literally cannot fathom. Our brains just render it as a weird, shifting box.
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