
SCIENTIFIC ROMANCES.
What is the Fourth Dimension? - CHAPTER I.
The Persian King.
INTRODUCTION.
A Plane World.
A Picture of Our Universe. - CHAPTER I.
Casting Out the Self.
Footnotes
Transcriber’s Notes
The opening chapters invite you into a spirited dialogue between the certainty of everyday physics and the daring curiosity that fuels discovery. Using clear, almost conversational language, the author sketches how our habits of thought are shaped by the theories we accept, then gently nudges you toward the idea that a hidden “fourth dimension” might lie beyond the three directions we navigate in space. The tone feels like a friendly lecture, encouraging you to pause and wonder about the limits we impose on reality.
Through vivid analogies—a room’s corners, the transition of gases into liquids—the work demonstrates how questioning long‑held assumptions can reveal whole new realms. It shows that by daring to imagine a state of existence beyond solid, liquid and gas, we can begin to picture powers that far exceed our current grasp. As a listener, you’ll be guided to contemplate not just what we know, but how the act of knowing itself shapes the world we experience.
Language
en
Duration
~6 hours (371K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2015-06-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1853–1907
Best known for his mind-bending writings on the fourth dimension, this Victorian mathematician mixed science, philosophy, and early speculative fiction in a way that still feels surprisingly modern. His work helped popularize ideas like the tesseract and invited readers to imagine space in entirely new ways.
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