The Fourth Dimension by Charles Howard Hinton audiobook.

Genre: science

First published in the late Victorian era, Charles Howard Hinton's The Fourth Dimension is an ambitious attempt to make a new kind of space feel thinkable. Writing for readers who may not have advanced mathematics, Hinton starts with a simple but unsettling question: if we live comfortably in three dimensions, what would it mean for a fourth spatial direction to exist alongside length, breadth, and height? Through vivid thought experiments, he compares our situation to that of an imagined two-dimensional world, where inhabitants can reason about their plane yet struggle to grasp an 'up' they cannot experience. Step by step, Hinton guides the listener toward the strange logic of higher space: how solid objects might appear as shifting cross-sections, how a hypercube (later called a tesseract) can be approached through analogy, and how perception itself limits what we take to be real. Along the way, the book blends geometry with a distinctly philosophical aim, urging a disciplined re-training of imagination and a loosening of everyday assumptions about viewpoint, self, and certainty. The result is part popular science lecture, part mental workout, and part meditation on what lies just beyond the edges of ordinary experience.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:15) Chapter 02

(00:34:21) Chapter 03

(00:50:01) Chapter 04

(01:11:24) Chapter 05

(01:30:24) Chapter 06

(01:41:46) Chapter 07

(02:01:02) Chapter 08

(02:15:58) Chapter 09

(02:33:02) Chapter 10

(02:50:01) Chapter 11

(03:08:17) Chapter 12

(03:22:19) Chapter 13

(03:36:09) Chapter 14

(03:52:43) Chapter 15

(04:07:42) Chapter 16

(04:25:41) Chapter 17

(04:38:20) Chapter 18

(04:48:52) Chapter 19

(05:05:26) Chapter 20

(05:23:07) Chapter 21

(05:58:36) Chapter 22

(06:25:18) Chapter 23

(06:47:33) Chapter 24

(07:14:48) Chapter 25

(07:45:33) Chapter 26

(07:58:31) Chapter 27

(08:19:17) Chapter 28

(08:46:22) Chapter 29

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