Kewl, Terry. Also worth noticing in this provocative animation is the added insight that it provides for understanding four-dimensional space (all of the 8 "extra" dimensions are "unfolded" into what we call "4-space" but this is different from space-time).
The animation adds "time" and can be interpreted as the progressive "unfolding" of 3-space into 4-space. Presumably this would require 8 loops (the 'octave of reality'?) and presumably the unfolding is ongoing but we never notice it in the same way that we never notice that cinema is really individual frames moved repidly. The tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. Which is to say the square is 2D - so the cube is adding an extra dimension to it, just as the fourth dimension is added to the cube by the tesseract; but this cannot be fully visualized, as you realize by watching since the unfolding is linear. And also, in what is more than analogy, just as the surface of the cube consists of 6 square faces, the hypersurface of the tesseract consists of 8 cubical cells. These 8 can each be a complete 3-space dimension, just like ours. Does this limit "parallel universes" to eight? The other pregnant question is: where are they exactly, since there are only six "faces" (i.e. interfaces) of our 3-space to work with and the apparent six additions are not cubical. In the animation there is preferred vector of the "unfolding" which we can analogized to being "powered" by "time" itself = which in this verbalization is NOT a separate dimension (like Einstein's confused notion of 'spacetime') but instead is the 'dynamic' which powers all of dimensionality. This time vector may be the critical factor of why the full 8 are never accessible to our 3-space. And strangely, the eight are actually not "separate" at all, but are overlapping. I wonder which of the 8 "other" dimensions, to which we are linked or overlapped at all times - is the Dirac epo field? - or if that construct encompasses them all in some strange way? It would be interesting to imagine that 'parallel universes' operate this way: "so close but so far away". Jones
