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In hyperspace, no one can hear you scream

@tibees
30.8K views3.3K likes1:15ENOct 27, 2026
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This point is me, and this point is you, and these are our five other friends, all scattered around. If you lit out a scream, the sound would travel away from you and cover a certain radius. Anyone inside of this radius would be able to hear your scream, but anyone too far away wouldn't be able to. In this flat square, there's a pretty good chance that someone will hear your scream, maybe even multiple people, that things only get scarier if we raise this situation up to higher dimensions. In a cube, you and me and our friends still float around randomly, but now there's simply more room to roam, and it's less likely that anyone will be close enough to hear your scream. Extend into even higher dimensions like this four-dimensional hypercube, and whilst the edge length stays the same, the hyper volume inside grows rapidly, and your scream, a fixed radius sphere, fills an ever smaller portion of that space. So try not to get lost in hyperspace, because in higher dimensional spaces, no one can hear your scream.