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  2. Fourth dimension in literature - Wikipedia

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    Aside from Hyperspace as a plot device for faster than light space travel, there are only a few examples of film or television productions that have explored the possible consequences of human access to a fourth dimension. In the 1959 science fiction film 4D Man a scientist accessed the fourth dimension and gained the ability to move through ...

  3. Four-dimensional space - Wikipedia

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    Four-dimensional space (4D) is the mathematical extension of the concept of three-dimensional space (3D). Three-dimensional space is the simplest possible abstraction of the observation that one needs only three numbers, called dimensions, to describe the sizes or locations of objects in the everyday world.

  4. Parallel universes in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps the most common use of the concept of a parallel universe in science fiction is the concept of hyperspace. Used in science fiction, the concept of "hyperspace" often refers to a parallel universe that can be used as a faster-than-light shortcut for interstellar travel. Rationales for this form of hyperspace vary from work to work, but ...

  5. List of scale model sizes - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft, science fiction, space non fiction, figures, vehicles, and watercraft. Now the most prolific [11] small scale (i.e. less than 1:35) for plastic injection armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) models, and also plastic model figurines and scale model vehicles and aircraft by companies such as Airfix. 1:65: 4.689 mm Ships, die-cast cars ...

  6. Flatland - Wikipedia

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    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", [1] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.

  7. Category:Fictional dimensions - Wikipedia

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  8. Multiple time dimensions - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction author H. Beam Piper, in his Paratime series of short stories and novel that multiple timelines exist as "worlds of alternate probability on the lateral dimension of time." [17] In Dragon Ball Z, hyperbolic time chambers - in which one year inside is equal to one day outside - are used to accelerate martial arts training.

  9. List of fictional aircraft - Wikipedia

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    The real aircraft used to portray the MiG-28 was a Northrop F-5. [18] Full-scale MiG-31 Firefox model used in the film Firefox parked at Van Nuys Airport, California in May 1982. MiG-31 Firefox: a fictional aircraft that appeared in Craig Thomas's novels Firefox and Firefox Down, as well as the 1982 film by the same name starring Clint Eastwood.