For ages the minds of mathematicians and philosophers have been tempted by this fascinating problem of the "fourth dimension.
It would suffice to destroy certain of these connections, that is to say of the associations of ideas to give a different table of distribution, and that might be enough for space to acquire a fourth dimension.
If I wish to imagine a fourth dimension, I shall suppose another series of muscular sensations, making part of a fourth class.
Why has it been said that every attempt to give a fourth dimension to space always carries this one back to one of the other three?
It has come to be customary, for some foolish reason, to speak of these phenomena as illustrations of the 'fourth dimension.
This is only another of the innumerable possible variations upon the penetrability of matter, and would come under the head in common nomenclature of that stupidly used term 'fourth dimension.
And in any case, however great may be the number of different explanations, no one has adopted or suggested the theory of a Fourth Dimension.
If I am wrong, I yield, and will no longer demand a Fourth Dimension; but, if I am right, my Lord will listen to reason.
If I am wrong, I yield, and will no longer demand a fourth Dimension; but, if I am right, my Lord will listen to reason.
For by postulating a fourth dimension either we have created a new world whose dimensions are four in number or we have explicitly admitted that the three dimensions have a fourth.
Similarly, if a three-dimensioned man took three right angles and placed them so that all the angles formed were right angles, he would discover a fourth dimension.
It's known to exist, because it makes a mercury amalgam, but nobody has been able to isolate it because nobody has been able to give it a fourth dimension--duration in time.
The mirror in the dimensoscope was not pointing in a fourth dimension.
Now that he has acquired a fourth dimension, the time has come for a new measurement of his excellences as an author.
To explain hypergeometry proper we must first set forth what a fourth dimension of space means, and show how natural the way is by which it may be approached.
As we go beyond the limits set by Euclid in adding a fourth dimension to space, this last branch as well as the other is often designated non-Euclidian.
I am not sending a third-dimensional thing to a fourth dimension.
You propose to warp a third-dimensional being into a fourth dimension.
This third dimension we now exist on evolved, millions of eons ago, from a fourth dimension.
A question was on the tip of the newspaperman's tongue, but before it could be asked the old man was speaking again, asking a question: "Can you imagine a fourth dimension?
Before he left St. Petersburg to settle in Balak as its Kapellmeister he had studied at the University under the famous Lobatchewsky, and absorbed from him not a few of the radical theories containing the problematic fourth dimension.
And Luga, was she lost to him in that no-man's land of a fourth dimension?
And I confess at the start that I labor under the superlative difficulty of not being able to form any conception of a fourth dimension, and for this incapacity my only consolation is, that in this respect I am not alone.
Which enables us to define a constant measure of curvature of a three-dimensional space without reference to a fourth dimension 20 23.
After this preliminary discussion of Sphereland, Lotze proceeds to the question of a fourth dimension, and thence to spherical and pseudo-spherical space.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fourth dimension" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
