Put your 4D glasses on; Objects in Lineland and Flatland
Attempting to visualize objects in the fourth spatial dimension by extending on parallels drawn from comparing objects in 2D space to their 3D equivalents.
In Edwin Abbott's Flatland, a creature living in the 2D world would be completely mind-boggled to see a sphere (from the 3D world) pass through town. Think of a sphere "falling through" a 2D plane/ table/ sheet, etc. When the sphere first comes into contact with this world, it's a dimensionless point. As it continues to fall thought, it is seen as a circle of increasing size (up to its center), then decreasing size just before being a point again and then finally disappearing. Similarly, a four-dimensional spatial cube passing through our world would start a point, then a cube that increases in size, then a point again just before disappearing.
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