Back in 1980, Carl Sagan created his seminal Cosmos: A Personal Voyage series for PBS (I reviewed the DVD release here). It has stood the test of time, especially considering the discoveries that have been made in the intervening decades. In this clip from the series, Sagan looks at the 4th dimension and the Tesseract – a 3-dimensional shadow of a 4-dimensional hypercube:
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