16 Christmas Gifts For The Science Nerd In Your Life

13. 4D Hyper Cube

Shout out to all the maths nerds out there. A hypercube desk ornament is a fantastic way to remind you of the abstract and incomprehensible nature of reality. The hypercube is a 3D projection of a 4D cube, produced using a 3D printer. Think of it as a sort of three-dimensional shadow. In order for an object to be truly four-dimensional, it would need to have a dimension other that up, down, forward, back, left or right. To go even deeper, you can see how this can be further reduced to a 2D projection of a 3D object by looking at the shadow it casts. Grab your physics bending, pan-dimensional cube here.
 
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