Cube 2: Hypercube Page #4

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It's a tesseract.

Christ, she's losing it.

Isn't it beautiful?

Isn't what beautiful, Mrs. Paley?

Holy sh*t.

If you look at it from just the right angle...

What did you call it again, Mrs. Paley?

It's a tesseract, sweetheart.

Tesseract?

Tesseract.

It's-- It's a tesseract.

How do you know it's a tesser... act,

or whatever you call it?

Is the second act beginning already?

We should be getting back to our seats.

Excuse me.

Yeah.

Is she for real?

A tesseract,

Holy Christ, of course.

A tesseract.

Jerry, you okay?

Yeah, yeah. I can't believe

I didn't see it before.

It's been staring at us

in the face the whole time.

Maybe you could share

with the rest of the class.

Oh. Of course.

A tesseract...

it's another name for...

... a hypercube.

A what?

A hypercube-- a four-dimensional cube.

Four dimensions?

All the elements are there.

Rooms repeating.

Rooms folding in on themselves.

Teleportation.

It could all very well add up.

Look. Here. See?

Let's call one dimension, length,

and represent that with a simple line.

Now, two dimensions are length and width,

which can be represented by a single square.

Now if we extend that square,

one more dimension...

we get...

a cube,

which has three dimensions.

Length, width, and depth.

Come on, we've all passed the eighth grade.

Hush.

Here's the really funky part.

If you take this cube,

and extend it one more dimension,

we get...

A tesseract.

I thought time was considered

to be the fourth dimension.

Sure. That's one idea.

But what if you have

a fourth spatial dimension?

- There's no such thing.

- Why don't you shut up?

Okay. Okay.

Let's just say that we are in this hyper--

- Cube.

- Cube. Whatever.

Does this diagram show us how to get out?

Well, uh... no.

A hypercube isn't supposed to be real.

It's just a theoretical construct.

Oh. Well that makes me feel better.

Is there a theory on how

we might get out of this...

theoretical construct?

I don't know.

Don't worry, dear.

It's just a matter of time.

That's so much clearer.

Thank you.

Great.

Anyway...

here's my theory for what it's worth:

we are all...

unwilling participants...

in a game show,

and are being videotaped as we speak.

Although I don't condone forcible

abduction of innocent people,

we can take comfort in the fact

that once the show airs,

we'll be able to parlay this

into lucrative sponsorship deals.

Okay, Max.

And what's the object of this game show?

Hmm... I don't know.

To get out alive?

I think we should make a map.

I don't think a map is really going to help us.

Look at that.

That wasn't there a minute ago.

Did you write that?

No. I left my wings at home.

I just marked this room as 10 before it.

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