Is there is any other way than abstract mathematics to visualize higher dimensions. Physicists working in high energy physics live in higher dimensions (pun intended), with their sophisticated mathematical tools they easily work there way out in higher dimensions. Take for a simple example of a n-sphere SN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-sphere.
- 0-sphere S0 is a pair of points c−r,c+r, and is the boundary of a line segment (the 1-ball B1).
- 1-sphere S1 is a circle of radius r centered at c, and is the boundary of a disk (the 2-ball B2).
- 2-sphere S2 is an ordinary 2-dimensional sphere in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, and is the boundary of an ordinary ball (the 3-ball B3).
- 3-sphere S3 is a sphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space.
The problem is how hard I think it is impossible for me to visualize a 3-sphere.
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