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Re: Area enclosed by a tesseract (4th Dimensional Hypercube)

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Originally Posted by RyanCahoon View Post
I would agree this holds for Euclidean 4-space, but is this measure of hyper-volume valid for Minkowski space, since only three of the dimensions are Euclidean?
It's very common for people to confuse the properties a Euclidean Space and a Minkowski Space. Many properties carry over from a Euclidean Space, but some crucial ones do not. When studying Minkowski Space it's critical that the student takes the time to understand the differences and why they exist. The biggest one of course being the differences in the definition of the space's inner product.
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