Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons

Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons | Clifford A. Pickover | "If Satan Were To Fall From Upsilon To Delta Through Our 3-D Space, What Might We See?"

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	Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons Clifford A. Pickover Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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 all-but-unfathomable concepts of hyperspace and higher-dimensional geometry.
No subject in mathematics has intrigued both children and adults as much as the idea of a fourth dimension. Philosophers and parapsychologists have meditated on this mysterious space that no one can point to but may be all around us. Yet this extra dimension has a very real, practical value to mathematicians and physicists who use it every day in their calculations. In the tradition of Flatland, and with an infectious enthusiasm, Clifford Pickover tackles the problems inherent in our 3-D brains trying to visualize a 4-D world, muses on the religious implications of the existence of higher-dimensional consciousness, and urges all curious readers to venture into "the unexplored territory lying beyond the prison of the obvious." Pickover alternates sections that explain the science of hyperspace with sections that dramatize mind-expanding concepts through a fictional dialogue between two futuristic FBI agents who dabble in the fourth dimension as a matter of national security. This highly accessible and entertaining approach turns an intimidating subject into a scientific game open to all dreamers.
Surfing Through Hyperspace concludes with a number of puzzles, computer experiments and formulas for further exploration, inviting readers to extend their minds across this inexhaustibly intriguing scientific terrain.

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What would four dimensional beings look like?

Great science is about answering interesting questions and great science writing is about making those selfsame answers accessible to the public.

It is in this latter regard that Charles Pickover succeeds admirably in answering the question posed at the beginning this review.

Having the reader assume the role of David Duchovny like X files FBI agent, he leads the reader on an interesting and accessible investigation of the four dimension and its various properties.

Liberally illustrated with pictures and artistic renderings his book does a great job of explaining.

Oh, and what would four dimensional beings look like?

According to Pickover, amorphous hairy blobs floating in the air, changing shapes and locations but always disgusting as we no doubt would be to them because they could our insides.

For the rest of the story, read his book. It's easy to read and a lot of fun.

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"If Satan Were To Fall From Upsilon To Delta Through Our 3-D Space, What Might We See?"

'Surfing Through Hyperspace' by Clifford Pickover is an engaging presentation of highly theoretical concepts within the field of physics presented in the form of a cosmic dectective story. The premise: "Hyperbeings have kidnapped the president!"

Question: Just how do 3-dimensional humans go about tracking down 4-dimensional hyperbeings and would we even be able to recognize them if we found them?

Who could resist a book with such chapter titles as; The Divinity of Higher Dimensions, Satan and Perpendicular Worlds and The Gods of Hyperspace. Wonderfully inventive, theologically challenging and just plain enjoyable!

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Higher Dimensions Around and In Us

Clifford A. Pickover, "Surfing through Hyperspace," 239 pages, numerous illustrations

This book discusses higher-dimensional geometry, the fourth dimension, philosophy, religion, mathematics and string theory. The author begins by saying that he knows of no subject in mathematics that has intrigued both children and adults as much as the idea of a fourth dimension -- a spatial direction different from all the directions of our normal three-dimensional space. Philosophers and parapsychologists have meditated upon this dimension that no one can point to but may be all around us. Theologians have speculated that the afterlife, heaven, hell, angels, and our souls could reside in a fourth dimension -- that God and Satan could literally be lumps of hypermatter in a four-dimensional space inches away from our ordinary three-dimensional world. The book's table of contents gives a good indication of topics and people covered. I have given more information about the topic in parentheses.

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1. Degrees of Freedom (history of fourth dimension, string theory, hyper-time)

Chapter 2. The Divinity of Higher Dimensions (Flatland, 4-D creatures, God)

Chapter 3. Satan and Perpendicular Worlds (parallel universes, wormholes, 4-D chess)

Chapter 4. Hyperspheres and Tesseracts (Hinton Cubes, tesseracts, hyperspheres)

Chapter 5. Mirror Worlds (Zollner, aliens, Mobius words, Klein bottles)

Chapter 6. The Gods of Hyperspace (Hypothetical access to the 4th dimension)

Concluding Remarks
Appendix I. Mind-Bending Four-Dimensional Puzzles
Appendix II. Higher Dimensions in Science Fiction
Appendix III. Banchoff Klein Bottle
Appendix IV. Quaternions
Appendix V. Four-Dimensional Mazes
Appendix VI. Smorgasbord for Computer Junkies
Appendix VII. Evolution of Four-Dimensional Beings
Appendix VIII. Questions for Further Thought
Appendix IX. Hyperspace Titles

A fun story involving fictional FBI agents exploring the fourth dimension weaves the topics together. A mixture of humor and mathematics.

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This is a valuable tool!

This is the third of Clifford pickover's books that I've read. Sex Drugs Einstein and Elves is a good introduction to who Pickover is and to some of the subjects he writes about. The Paradox of God has some interesting things to say about the unprovable idea of the existence of an omniscient being. Surfing Through Hyperspace however, is an extremely valuable book in other ways. While the existence of higher dimensions has not yet been conclusively proven, it is among the current theories in the field of physics and seems very likely. It is not only physicists who should be interested in these ideas, but anyone who cares at all about the structure and order of the universe in which he lives. As far as I'm concerned, physics outranks religion and many other subjects in importance to the state of human knowledge, yet few people become interested in it. This book is a wonderful guide to exploring what beings and objects in a fourth spatial dimension might look and act like. Pondering the concepts discussed in this book could be a powerful and intriguing experience for anyone who is curious about higher dimensions. When talking to people who are becoming interested in such ideas, I usually recommend that they read Michio Kaku's Hyperspace. From now on, I will recommend that they look at Surfing Through Hyperspace as a companion volume. Kaku's explanations combined with Pickover's lessons on visualization of these concepts should make a very effective introductory course.

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