Tesseracts and Madeleine L'Engle

Died in children's writer Madeleine L'Engle weekend in the 88th His most famous work, A Wrinkle in Time is the story of a girl in the vastness of the universe in an attempt to both his father and save the galaxy from evil "black thing ". The book, which he had with hilarious (and a Friend of children) treated terms such as religion, mathematics and theoretical evil years to finally find a publisher for his perceived madness. Then finally in print in 1962, has sold millions wrinklescopies and remains a popular destination for young teenagers to read today. L'Engle, a concept explored in the book was tessering, a method that people could travel great distances in a universe of space "folding" and time. Although not exactly in the way L'Engle describes this behavior, there Tesseracts, and serve as an important example and elegant multi-dimensional space. Tesseract is a real four-dimensional cube is best described as ... and a sort of confusion. So, in memory of L'Engle, we metwith the physicist David Morgan, took a break from his day to speak with the Tesseract BPP. Enter your measley three-dimensional brain to this work.