Fourth Dimension

Flatlanders cannot visualize a cube, but they can conceptualize a three-dimensional cube by unraveling it. To a Flatlander, a cube, when unfolded, resembles a cross, consisting of six squares. Similarly, we cannot visualize a four-dimensional Hypercube, but if we unfold it we have a series of cubes arranged in a cross like tesseract. Although the cubes of a tesseract appear immobile, a four-dimensional person can "wrap up" the cubes into a Hypercube.

In Christus Hypercubus, Salvador Dali depicted Christ as being crucified on a tesseract, an unraveled hypercube. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Chester Dale, Collection, 1955. © 1993. Ars, New York/Demart Pro Arte, Geneva)

Cubism was heavily influenced by the fourth dimension. For example, it tried to view reality through the eyes of a fourth-dimensional person. Such a being, looking at a human face, would see all angles simultaneously. Hence, both eyes would be seen at once by a fourth-dimensional being, as in Picasso's painting Portrait of Dora Maar. (Giraudon/Art Resource. ® 1993. Ars, New York/ Spadem, Paris)

The shadow of a hyper-cube is a cube within a cube. If the hypercube is rotated in four dimensions, the cubes execute motions that appear impossible to our three-dimensional brains.

Source : Michio Kaku's Parallel Worlds