4D Bowling

Ideas about how a world with more than three spatial dimensions would work - what laws of physics would be needed, how things would be built, how people would do things and so on.

4D Bowling

Postby PatrickPowers » Thu May 08, 2025 7:37 pm

What would a 4D bowling alley be like? I figure the pins would be arranged in a tetrahedron with three of the vertexes in the wx plane and the fourth closest to the bowler. Have a pin at each vertex and in the midpoint of each edge. With four vertexes and six edges that conveniently makes for the standard ten pins. The bowling alley is a triangular prism surrounded by a gutter. The standard layout is one foot between the center of each pin and its nearest neighbor, and 4.75" diameter for the pins. Doing the geometry I found out that this would not give the domino effect needed in bowling. The distance between pin centers has to be reduced. Eight inches would do it.
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