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Surfing Through Hyperspace
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Surfing Through Hyperspace (1999) (edit title/settings)

Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons

by Clifford A. Pickover (Author) (edit contributors)

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Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be a mathematician or an astrophysicist to explore the... read more

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  • “Some mystics have suggested that spacetime is like a novel being "read" by the soul.”
  • “Miraculous powers do not necessarily signify any of the moral and spiritual qualities required for worship and adoration.”
  • “Even if by these means we could mount up to Mars or hold converse with the inhabitants of Jupiter or Saturn, we should be no nearer to the divine throne, except so far as these new experiences might develop in our modesty, respect for facts, a deeper reverence for order and harmony, and a mind more open to new observations and to fresh inferences from old truths.”
  • “You and I are still just tubes extending through a body bag filled with "sea water."”

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You have returned from Cherbourg and are relaxing in your office at the Washington Metropolitan Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation located on 1900 Half Street, Washington, D.C.

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Preface
Introduction
1. Degrees of Freedom
2. The Divinity of Higher Dimensions
3. Satan and Perpendicular Worlds
4. Hyperspheres and Tesseracts
5. Mirror Worlds
6. The Gods of Hyperspace
Concluding Remarks
Appendix A: Mind-Bending Four-Dimensional Puzzles
Appendix B: Higher Dimensions in Science Fiction
Appendix C: Banchoff Klein Bottle
Appendix D: Quarternions
Appendix E: Four-Dimensional Mazes
Appendix F: Smorgasbord for Computer Junkies
Appendix G: Evolution of Four-Dimensional Beings
Appendix H: Challenging Questions for Further Thought
Appendix I: Hyperspace Titles
Notes
Further Readings
About the Author
Addendum
Index

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  1. Clifford A. Pickover (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0195130065
Page Count: 272

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