Take again the orange face, that determined by the red and yellow axes;
from it goes a brown cube in the blue direction, for red and yellow
and blue are supposed to make brown. This brown cube is shown in three
sections in the faces _b__{1}, _b__{2}, _b__{3}. In _b__{4} is the
opposite orange face of the brown cube, the face called orange _b_,
for it is distant in the blue direction from the orange face. As the
tesseract passes transverse to our space, we have then in this region
an instantly vanishing orange square, followed by a lasting brown
square, and finally an orange face which vanishes instantly.
Now, as any three axes will be in our space, let us send the white
axis out into the unknown, the fourth dimension, and take the blue
axis into our known space dimension. Since the white and blue axes are
perpendicular to each other, if the white axis goes out into the fourth
dimension in the positive sense, the blue axis will come into the
direction the white axis occupied, in the negative sense.
[Illustration: Fig. 108.]
Hence, not to complicate matters by having to think of two senses in
the unknown direction, let us send the white line into the positive
sense of the fourth dimension, and take the blue one as running in the
negative sense of that direction which the white line has left; let the
blue line, that is, run to the left. We have now the row of figures
in fig. 108. The dotted cube shows where we had a cube when the white
line ran in our space—now it has turned out of our space, and another
solid boundary, another cubic face of the tesseract comes into our
space. This cube has red and yellow axes as before; but now, instead
of a white axis running to the right, there is a blue axis running to
the left. Here we can distinguish the regions by colours in a perfectly
systematic way. The red line traces out a purple square in the
transference along the blue axis by which this cube is generated from
the orange face. This purple square made by the motion of the red line
is the same purple face that we saw before as a series of lines in the
sections _b__{1}, _b__{2}, _b__{3}. Here, since both red and blue axes
are in our space, we have no need of duration to represent the area
they determine. In the motion of the tesseract across space this purple
face would instantly disappear.
From the orange face, which is common to the initial cubes in fig. 107
and fig. 108, there goes in the blue direction a cube coloured brown.
This brown cube is now all in our space, because each of its three axes
run in space directions, up, away, to the left. It is the same brown
cube which appeared as the successive faces on the sections _b__{1},
_b__{2}, _b__{3}. Having all its three axes in our space, it is given
in extension; no part of it needs to be represented as a succession.
The tesseract is now in a new position with regard to our space, and
when it moves across our space the brown cube instantly disappears.
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