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Scientifictionist, v. 1, issue 1, September 1945
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it would have. But the machine! Having the ability to move an object from its spatial position, it then goes back to the time and place the object was, and brings it forward to the present, thus robbing the past. Or it can move an object back to its old position, and take the object brought previously from the past back into the past, thus robbing the present.. It is thus the handiest of all copying machines and its copies are perfect, for they are the article itself. Daniel A. Alexander tells us, in TWISTED DIMENSIONS (April 42 TWS), of the fourth dimension, as not being a fourth plane at right angles to our three dimensions, but as a ratio of space to time. What does he mean? You tell me -- but it sounds good, doesn't it? And due to the additional dimension, water runs uphill! Both three- and five-dimensional creatures were able to enter the fourth dimension by means of thin spots on the dimensional walls if they hit the right vibrational frequency, but a 3-D being is unable to perceive his fourth dimensionsal extension thus obtained, or the fourth dimension of anything in that plane. DOORWAY OF VANISHIGH MEN by Wm. P. McGivern (Fantastic Adventures July 41) presnts the idea of altering a revolving door into a tesseract. When the door turns, it bends the three dimensions and time so that the time dimension can be entered. Entering time, they return to the instant before they entered the time dimension and reenter time again, unknowingly continuing this until the tesseract is altered back into three dimensions. The universe is suggested as being the curved three-dimensional surface of a four-dimensional sphere in Miles J. Breuer's THE FITZGERALD CONTRACTION (Startling Stories Jan. 42). This story contains many unusual ideas, most of which are on other subjects and therefore will not be discussed in this article. Kaligor of Mu who built himself a body of basic warped space-time interwoven like tough cloth so he could never die (THE THREE ETERNALS by Eando Binder--TWS Dec. 39) is described as dreaming up an entire six-dimensional universe when he was imprisoned in a block of metal for twenty thousand years. That ought to make a really interesting story but is a mere incident in Binder's yarn. Is there any author capable of writing a story of such a universe and including satisfactory explanation? I wouldn't be surprised if A.E. van Vogt could. Nelson Bond, in CARTWRIGHT'S CAMERA (Nov. 1940 Unknown) suggests the idea of a camera accidently knocked out of alignment dimensionally so that it photographs events before they happen. The idea of the fourth dimension is rather plainly worked out in Benson Herbert's THE WORTH WITHOUT (Sept. 40 Startling). Space, as far as this tale is concerned, is composed of an infinite number of three-dimensional unverses right next to each other in the fourth dimension in the same way that the two dimensional leaves in a book are next to each other in the third dimension, which the book is closed. The story's characters do not have to invent the means of invading the fourth dimension, but rather find an archeological thinket that has solved the problem. The trinket is a bright purple flexible bar, a yard long and a couple inched wide, fitted to slide through a small transparent sphere containing a yellow fluid. After it has gone about four inches beyond the sphere, it bends into the fourth dimension and then back into another three dimensional world. The characters in the story fixed the gadget up to project various distance through the fourth dimension but naturall, most of their trials discovered spatial vacuum. After a week they found a sun, but eventually they found a world that they could manage to enter. Its gravity pull was at a 30 [degree symbol] angle to earhs and it had a chlorine atmosphere. A rope ladder was pushed through the fourth dimension to this new world, and the earth beings were thus able to investigate. BEYOND THE BOILING ZONE by Ross Rocklynne (Winter 44 Startling) presents some unusual theories: While Vulcan is close to the sun, it is within the rage --(page 5)--
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it would have. But the machine! Having the ability to move an object from its spatial position, it then goes back to the time and place the object was, and brings it forward to the present, thus robbing the past. Or it can move an object back to its old position, and take the object brought previously from the past back into the past, thus robbing the present.. It is thus the handiest of all copying machines and its copies are perfect, for they are the article itself. Daniel A. Alexander tells us, in TWISTED DIMENSIONS (April 42 TWS), of the fourth dimension, as not being a fourth plane at right angles to our three dimensions, but as a ratio of space to time. What does he mean? You tell me -- but it sounds good, doesn't it? And due to the additional dimension, water runs uphill! Both three- and five-dimensional creatures were able to enter the fourth dimension by means of thin spots on the dimensional walls if they hit the right vibrational frequency, but a 3-D being is unable to perceive his fourth dimensionsal extension thus obtained, or the fourth dimension of anything in that plane. DOORWAY OF VANISHIGH MEN by Wm. P. McGivern (Fantastic Adventures July 41) presnts the idea of altering a revolving door into a tesseract. When the door turns, it bends the three dimensions and time so that the time dimension can be entered. Entering time, they return to the instant before they entered the time dimension and reenter time again, unknowingly continuing this until the tesseract is altered back into three dimensions. The universe is suggested as being the curved three-dimensional surface of a four-dimensional sphere in Miles J. Breuer's THE FITZGERALD CONTRACTION (Startling Stories Jan. 42). This story contains many unusual ideas, most of which are on other subjects and therefore will not be discussed in this article. Kaligor of Mu who built himself a body of basic warped space-time interwoven like tough cloth so he could never die (THE THREE ETERNALS by Eando Binder--TWS Dec. 39) is described as dreaming up an entire six-dimensional universe when he was imprisoned in a block of metal for twenty thousand years. That ought to make a really interesting story but is a mere incident in Binder's yarn. Is there any author capable of writing a story of such a universe and including satisfactory explanation? I wouldn't be surprised if A.E. van Vogt could. Nelson Bond, in CARTWRIGHT'S CAMERA (Nov. 1940 Unknown) suggests the idea of a camera accidently knocked out of alignment dimensionally so that it photographs events before they happen. The idea of the fourth dimension is rather plainly worked out in Benson Herbert's THE WORTH WITHOUT (Sept. 40 Startling). Space, as far as this tale is concerned, is composed of an infinite number of three-dimensional unverses right next to each other in the fourth dimension in the same way that the two dimensional leaves in a book are next to each other in the third dimension, which the book is closed. The story's characters do not have to invent the means of invading the fourth dimension, but rather find an archeological thinket that has solved the problem. The trinket is a bright purple flexible bar, a yard long and a couple inched wide, fitted to slide through a small transparent sphere containing a yellow fluid. After it has gone about four inches beyond the sphere, it bends into the fourth dimension and then back into another three dimensional world. The characters in the story fixed the gadget up to project various distance through the fourth dimension but naturall, most of their trials discovered spatial vacuum. After a week they found a sun, but eventually they found a world that they could manage to enter. Its gravity pull was at a 30 [degree symbol] angle to earhs and it had a chlorine atmosphere. A rope ladder was pushed through the fourth dimension to this new world, and the earth beings were thus able to investigate. BEYOND THE BOILING ZONE by Ross Rocklynne (Winter 44 Startling) presents some unusual theories: While Vulcan is close to the sun, it is within the rage --(page 5)--
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