Citations:tesseract

Noun: "(science fiction) any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe"

 * 1962, Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-38613-7, chapter 5:
 * Well, 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.
 * 1986, May 22, Frank Close, "One of My Days is Missing", New Scientist, page 59:
 * It must be a psychological shock to experience such a tessaract in time. But there are more down-to-Earth examples of time travel that can be disorientating, as I have just discovered.
 * 1991 (2001), Jack L. Chalker, 90 Trillion Fausts, ISBN 0671578308, page 86:
 * I think he suspected that they were all the same. That the crystals were some kind of dimensional switch box. Tesseracts, Manya called them.
 * 1998, Paul J. Nahin, Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction, page 142:
 * More technical is the discussion in "Doorway of Vanishing Men" (McGovern), in which a clerk transforms the main entrance to a department store into a time machine by building a tesseract.
 * 2005, Helen E Davis, Silent Runners, iUniverse, page 86
 * But because it is possible for us to slip between the layers of this fabric, to cut through the Tesseract between the layers, we may travel between distant points much more quickly then light which takes a roundabout way. ... Tesseract, or T-space, is most easily entered or exited through the T-points, where gravity wells stress and stretch the infinite fabric.
 * 2007, Glenn Greenberg, Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: The Art of the Comeback, page 134
 * "Tell me, David, have you ever heard of a tesseract?" "Sure. According to the theory, it would be a solid, three-dimensional object on the outside, with limitless, interdimensional space on the inside. But we don't know any that actually exist."
 * 2008, L. E. Simmons, The Lady of Gold: SnapDragon Adventures 1, lulu.com page 41
 * In addition to the recently enacted 'no tesseract hopping rule', I must stress the important fact that no one is allowed to cross into an unregistered dimension without consent from either myself or Ms. Miranda.
 * 2010, James Axler, Distortion Offensive, page 40
 * They live in the shadows, making the tangles their home. The tangles of your hair turn back on themselves, creating non-space, like a tesseract. ... A tesseract was a dimensional anomaly, a place that appeared bigger on the inside then it did from without.
 * 2011, Dawn Metcalf, Luminous, page 84
 * Trusting that her feet knew the way, Consuela stepped sideways through the Flow's tesseract doors and onto the soft carpeting of her own floor.

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 * 1989, Alex Comfort, Tetrarch, page 394
 * The Losian language has three numbers - singular, plural and tasurat (tessaract), the last of these peculiar to Losian. The use of the tessaract is confined to: (1) things or persons in fours; (2) nouns denominating religious, transcendental or ...
 * 2009, A. A. Attanasio, The Last Legends of Earth, page 114:
 * Yet Genitrix continued to churn out adult humans with memories of their former lives gleaned from the tesseract field and imprinted in their brains.
 * 2010, A. A. Attanasio, Centuries, page 339
 * This is the tesseract range,” said Karla, beckoning him into bituminous distance.
 * 2012, D. Jukić, H. Buljan, Four-dimensional photonic lattices and discrete tesseract solitons arXiv
 * We study discrete diffraction in the linear regime, and predict the existence of four-dimensional (4D) tesseract solitons in nonlinear 4D periodic photonic lattices.