Monday, August 6, 2007

The mysterious tesseract.

Mrs Which then replied to me, "Yes, he is behind that Thing, so that we can't see him." Upon hearing that, I burst into tears as it reminded me of all the sadness since my father disappeared. Mrs Whatsit told me there was hope that father would come back. I hope he will eventually. Before we tessered again, I said that I did not understand the word tesser.

Though Mrs Whatsit tried to explain to me, I was confused. Maybe I am a moron, like what Mr Jenkins suggested. Charles then tried to explain to me about a tesseract. First, he said that the first dimension is a line and to get the second dimension (a square), you have to square the line. To produce a cube (three dimensional), you have to square the square. And so on...

Charles also mentioned the fact that the fifth dimension is a tesseract, and also that a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points in a tesseract.

For a brief moment, I got it finally. I guessed explanations between siblings are better than explanations between strangers, though I was unsure if Calvin understood it better than me.

We were ready to go then. There was a gust of wind and I saw Mrs Who's face disappear first, then her glasses. It reminded me of the Cheshire Cat, but it did not look like Mrs Who in any way. All of a sudden, I felt the same feeling that I did when we tessered on Earth. We were actually transfered into a two dimensional world, and I did not like it very much. Then we were tessered again, this time into another three dimensional place. Mrs Whatsit siad that it was just a mistake to tesser us into a two - dimensional world. She led us to see the Happy Medium. She also told us that she was 2379152497 years, 8 months, and 3days, according to our calendar.

The Happy Medium showed us a ball, which contained a picture of the Earth, but covered by the Thing I saw on Uriel. Because of this, Mrs Whatsit explained, Earth is a very troubled planet. I learnt that the Earth's once great scientists, were all fighting it. Even the Happy Medium hates it so much that tears streaked down her cheeks, and she ordered us to watch a great ball.

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