Charles Howard Hinton's Tesseract Essay

Damp, humid, especially inside of my shoes is extra soggy. Heavy rain made such a gloomy weather, dark grumpy clouds is still on there. The weather these days had changed so differently from decades ago. Southern California used to have nice weather, wasn’t so humid, and wasn’t cold, it has been hot in the summer yet inside of the shade was cool enough. Scientists claim it is because of climate change, ozone layer destruction, or global warming. After school, heading to the library like the other days. Since I’m Junior, I got many works to do, however, it isn’t easy to do those all works because my interest is so far away from school. Most of my interests are at the library.
I hope I could have some interesting conversations with my dad,
he is quite smart, unfortunately, because of his work, my dad is in Korea dealing with accountings in a company, thus I live with my mom and my little brother.
I was trying to go to the library right after school; my shoes are wet and also this summer, days were annoying me, so I just head to my home. After I changed my clothes and shoes I made a few steps to the library.
“Hey Clark” I said, Clark Davidson, he is the closest friend to me, his house is near the library.
“Hey Kace, are you going to the library?” he said.
“Yeah” I answered.
“Hey I have to go, see you at school” Clark left with his bike.
I use to play with him during the summer vacation,but because he was so busy during the school year we couldn’t play much. He has quite good looking, he actually had a few girlfriends. The reason why I liked him is because I could have some actual conversation about some of my interests or some of complicated stuffs, and he is also pretty open minded. Fortunately I did not have that much homework today, always there wasn’t much homework on Monday. It was a quite nice day to read, so I pulled out a book from my backpack. I was reading this thick book written by physicist Kip Thorne, the title was Black Holes and Time Warps, I couldn’t read this a lot; I was just starting this book. I only red few sentences on introduction. Before this book I red Michio Kaku’s book, it was very interesting book, the book is mostly about higher dimensions, why it is necessary to find out, the history of it, and how does it works stuffs. Anyway, back to this book that I’m about to read is about the black holes and time warps as the title shows. I knew this physicist few years ago, and fortunately I found his book in the library. Three hours were fast as three minutes, library is closing at nine, but I had to go before seven for my brother, my mom usually came back around eight or nine. In front of my home, there is a little store, which I could see it from the window in my room. One of my weird hobby is to watch people passing by and visiting on that grocery store. I could see many different kinds of people passing by and few familiar people too. It is nice to see those kinda things to me.
The morning of tuesday isn’t bad as monday, but it isn’t also good as friday morning. My school classes, starting from history I have literal subjects on morning, and mathematical subjects on fourth and sixth period, which isn’t really morning at all. It is nice to have those literal subjects on morning, because, to me, it is better to deal with numbers on the late days, not morning.
As I finished the school, I directly went to home, but while I was walking I’ve met one of my class mate, Melvin Gregan, he is this little boy. Although I’m not tall, but I could tell that he is quite small, seems his height is about 5.6 or 7. I don’t really like him much; he is quite annoying, I don’t hate him being him, but I hate his attitude towards people. I couldn’t know what he exactly thinking, but I could tell that he looks people with some kind of attitude, he probably would think everything is funny, he doesn’t shows any respect to others. So I hate him quite a lot, but I couldn't ignore him either, I have to be nice to people for some reason. If I don’t act properly, people will judge me and chew my actions like gum, thus I hate it. Until I get in front of my house, Melvin, he made up some funny conversation, which is really time dumping conversation. He didn’t even talked about some particular subject, not even once. He just talked as stranger wandering the way. It was hard to make any comments on his talk, so I just smiled and replied some funny comments to what he said until I get to home.
I rushed through my home works, I hoped to finish it before 7 O’clock, but there was an essay home work and history research project, which is due till tomorrow. So, I couldn’t finish it before that time. I knew I had those long time consuming home works, but I wanted to see and check the store.
The store outside always have many customers, so there is many people walking by and visiting the store. But the interesting thing is that I sometimes see some weird situations, I saw a person or few people going inside the store but they’ve never came out. It was truly strange and it has been also somewhat interested in me. Few days later on the weekend, I’ve called Clark to come over, it was the right timing; Clark wasn’t busy at all on that weekend.
He came almost right away when I called him, it was 10 O’clock in the morning.
“Hey man, I brought few board games” Clark said
He liked board games rather than video or computer games, so almost every time he came to my house he brought board games and I liked it too.
“Ok, but let’s do it later, cause I have something to show you” I said
“Ok, well then what’s the issue?” Clark said
“Come here, do you see that grocery store?” I said
“What’s the matter with that little store?” he said “there’s nothing”.
“I was about to tell you, listen, I saw few people visiting there, who never came out.” I said
“I first thought that it would be my mistake that I couldn’t see few people coming out, but for the days and few weeks I saw people who never came out again for several times”.
“Are they all same people?” he said
“No, no they weren’t the same, they all looked different, different clothes, and different looks” I said
“Did you checked inside?” he said probably
“I did, of course I did, but it was just the same store as it is and the thing was that I couldn’t see a man who went inside, he just disappeared” I said
“What do you mean? Disappeared?” he said with wide spread eyes
“Exactly, I mean I didn’t saw the person disappearing, but he just disappeared, he just vaporized”. I said, I couldn’t explain with any more words.
“You aren’t lying don’t you?” he said with his own suspicious voice.
“Of course not, did you think that I was lying for this whole time?” I quite got mad
“No, no, actually I thought you were at first, but as you kept explaining what you’ve saw I noticed you might be serious” he said.
“You better be, because I was real for the whole period” I said.
“Ok ok calm down, I believe you, really, I believe what you’ve said” he said “so then what are you gonna do with that?”.
“Actually I was thinking about … we should check there once more” I said
“I was thinking about that too, so then how can we?” he said
“Hmmm… it would be hard to… yeah, that’s right how about cameras?” I said
“Cameras?” he said
“Yeah Cameras, you know what I have my own and the old one from dad, so two cameras, it would be enough” I said.
“That could work, I got your idea, then let’s place the old one here and yours inside the store” he said.
We’ve got that idea to catch what’s happening inside, so we’ve started right away, there was no reason to hesitate. Building some kind of case to camouflage my camera inside the store and also few big batteries connected with, so it could keep capturing what’s happening. And placed the old camera toward the store on my window. “So when are we going to check those?” he said
“It would need some time so maybe few days or a week?” I said
“Oh, I’m not that busy on next weekend too, so let’s check it on next weekend” Clark said
“Ok, I’ll call you” I said
And then we started to do some board games that he brought, it took a lot of times to finish one game. At the time that we were playing the third game Clark asked me about the a story called And He Built a Crooked House. I was quite interested because of the word “Crooked”.
“ what's about it?” I said
“Do you wanna listen?” he said
“Sure, I do” I said
“There were an architecture, Quintus Teal, who wanted to build a true Tesseract, hypercube shape houses. And one time he built a house with few connected squares, and he sold it to his friend, Homer Bailey. However, before the general public could see the house, it collapsed by sudden earthquake. When Mr.Bailey went to check the house if it’s OK or no, he noticed that the house became a square, just one square rather than connected many squares. When Mr.Bailey went inside of the house it first seems so normal with only one squared place. However he saw other things rather than outside with the windows in the house. Inside of the house he could see other rooms with the window, with the door that used to connect the other rooms, he could go to the other rooms. When he saw the house from outside, he only could see a square, which couldn’t have any more than one room. Mr. Bailey and Mr.Teal thought it was caused by the earthquake. The earthquake led the house to go through different dimensions, higher dimensions.”
“Interesting” I said
“Isn’t it?” Clark said
“I might knew why you’d told me that story, aren’t you being suspicious about that store? Just like Teal’s house?” I said
“Yeah, that’s right” Clark said
“It sounds so fictional, five dimensions? Kidding me, how could we see higher dimensions?” I said
“We couldn’t see the exact five dimensions, but we could see it to the shape of four dimensions” Clark said
“I know it, but it just doesn’t make sense” I said
“Doesn’t makes sense for what?” he said
“I mean can you believe that crooked house in the real world? It’s just like a movie or story” I said
It was truly strange to me, anyone couldn’t believe those chimerical things easily. Except for Clark; he likes those mystic stories and movies and he also searches for those kinda mystic things. He thinks that Bigfoot is a real existing creature. Few hours later with the end of the controversy, he left my house. When my mom came back to the house from her work, she saw the camera. She asked me about the camera, but I just answered that it is just nothing. I was so busy on that day; I had a lot of homework. I wanted to read a book which I bought yesterday, it was a fiction by H.G. Wells, named The Time Machine. It was the book that I wanted to read since last year; every time when I tried to buy it, I was always interrupted by something. I couldn’t really remember what was interrupting me, but I was interrupted.
After I finished my homework, it was about 10 O’clock, I could finish it earlier, however I always do some other stuff while I’m doing homework. Finally I held the book, suddenly I remembered this author H.G. Wells, who was also the author of The Invisible Man, he seemed quite a great fan of different dimensions. One of the reasons that I wanted to read this book The Time Machine was because it was about time and different dimensions, and the other reason was that this novel was a masterpiece over a century.
I usually read different books at the same time, I don’t mean that I’m multitasking, I read other books while I’m not finished with the other. It is natural to me and also good to me, but always there is someone who says “I don’t think you should do that, you couldn’t concentrate on one book” when I tell them how I read many books at the same time. Then I tell them that “it isn’t bad to read like that, because I could have wider point of view when I read many books at the same time”. And it really is; I could see both scientifically, psychologically, or socially when I read those genres.
Few days after while I was doing my homework, I was disrupted by a phone call. It was Clark, he probably called was because of the camera. And it was correct.
“Hey, how’s the recording?” he said
“It is fine, it’s working fine” I said
“I mean the camera in the store” he said
“That one is also fine, I checked it yesterday” I said “Hey just wait till the weekend, we supposed to check on the weekend”
“I know that, I was just wondering if it’s fine or not, you know if it’s broken or something we wouldn’t find out what’s happening” he said
“Don’t worry about it, I’ll take care of it, just call me on the weekend” I said After the phone call I finished up my homework and started to read again.
And then I started to think about a Tesseract. The Tesseract which also called hypercube, I first heard it from some book, I couldn’t really remember the title, but it was about different dimensions. And one thing that I clearly remember is that name Tesseract is given by Charles Howard Hinton. The Tesseract, I imagined eight squares, the Tesseract it was also shown on Salvador Dali’s Crucifixion, which painting with Jesus on hypercube cross. And I thought that Clark’s words about the crooked house and those could be right, then I’ve thought that if he is right, the store should be more than five dimensions, which also mean that the store could be six, seven or more dimensions. When I got to school, I was kept thinking about it, and I also tried to ask this thing, about the dimensions to my physics teacher. I expected that he would know and he might clarify some facts and concept. So as school finished, I went to physics classroom right after sixth period, which was math class. I was first walked fast towards the class, I was in this great confident. However, as I got closer and closer to the class, I was quite getting nervous, I was struggling, having conflict in my mind. I always did
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