4D USB connector?

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4D USB connector?

Postby duocylindersarehot » Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:14 pm

If you look head-on at any old USB connector, you'll see that it's basically a rectangle, just extended into the third dimension... a rectangular prism.
So... what exactly would any sort of 4D plug look like? Would it be like a cube extended along the w-axis that just looks like a normal cube until you rotate it? Or would plugs possibly be tetrahedrons from head-on, until you saw that they were actually tetrahedronprisms? And how would it connect to something to transfer information like a 3D USB device? Wait, are there even electrons and atoms in the fourth dimension?!? What about quarks?!? Leptons?!?!? Gluons?!?!?!?!??!?!?!? WHAT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF A BYTE IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION‽‽‽‽‽ :o_o:
Uhhh.... well, let's just keep it simple for now... :sweatdrop:
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Re: 4D USB connector?

Postby Mercurial, the Spectre » Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:17 am

If you want atoms in 4D, good luck since it has been discussed earlier in the forum, and if you try to generalize 3D equations to 4D, you will expect differences in the fundamental principles of matter. I don't know if electricity could be adapted in 4D, however.

A 4D USB, ignoring the above result, would be a connection of two tesseroids (basically a 4D rectangular cuboid) of different sizes. In fact any kind of polyhedral prism will work. The byte is independent of dimension since it depends on hardware, but since in 4D a two-fold increase in length means a 16-fold increase in hypervolume, the byte would probably be based on 16 bits instead of 8 bits. The meaning of a kilobyte would be equal to 10000 bytes due to the same reason as above.

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