tesseract - dhh1128/scifi-terms GitHub Wiki
Definition
A shortcut that achieves faster-than-light travel by taking advantage of a fifth dimension.
Usage Examples
- "As Mrs. Whatsit explains in [the trailer to A Wrinkle in Time], 'The fifth dimension’s a tesseract. You add that to the other four dimensions and you can travel through space without having to go the long way around. In other words, to put into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.' A tesseract is an interstellar shortcut, more or less." [from refinery29.com, fair use]