The Fourth Dimension According to Charles Hinton

Surely at some time of your life, you have heard about traveling to the fourth dimension. The are many books—famous books—and many movies—famous movies—around this topic. This means that the topic is of interest to everybody, and not only for a selected group of mathematicians and physicists.

When people are confronted with the subject of higher dimensions, or when asked if they believe in it or not, their answer will vary depending on if their background is more religious than scientific or vice versa.

The fact is that for many people "the fourth dimension" is a place—similar and different to our surrounding three-dimensional world around us. Visualizing it as "place" enable us to enter or exit from it like when going to some kind of theme park. Going to such a place will enlighten and will empower us in such a way that from that experience on to forever we'll be talking about the experience like sacred events that should not be shared with anybody except those "chosen" to experience a trip like ours in the future.

For the privileged beings of this hyperworld, we are seen somewhat as toys that can be manipulated at their will.

In the literature arena of the books, Charles Hinton (1853 - 1907), a British mathematician, occupies the place of one of the initiators among the public the fourth dimension subject. He studied the topic in a reasonable systematic approach, recurring to simple examples and explaining his ideas in nonmathematical terms.

Selected Papers of Charles Hinton
about the fourth dimension
The Selected Papers of Charles Hinton about the fourth dimension is a good compilation of many of his works in a simple nonmathematical language.