Basic Trope: There are spatial dimensions beyond length, width, and height.
- Straight: Aside from length, width, and height, there also exists a fourth spatial dimension.
- Exaggerated: There seems to be an unending amount of spatial dimensions.
- Downplayed: The fourth dimension isn't proven to actually exist, instead remaining theoretical.
- Justified: A two-dimensional being on, say, a paper would still be in the third dimension, just they wouldn't be aware of it nor access it; we could deduce something similar for ourselves.
- Inverted: There only exists width and height; length does not exist.
- Subverted:
- Those who had observed the supposed fourth dimension weren't actually observing the fourth dimension, but rather they just assumed they were.
- The mentions of the fourth dimension were vague, and it turns out the people talking about it were actually referring to time as the fourth dimension.
- Double Subverted:
- When a few people garner the adequate knowledge, however, they find it really does exist.
- Time in the work still acts like space, enough to be treated as a spatial dimension in itself.
- Parodied: Because four-dimensional beings are incomprehensible to our three-dimensional cast, they appear as silly three dimensional things, like tacos that poop ice cream.
- Averted:
- There are only three dimensions. No more, no less.
- Dimensions are never brought up.
- Defied: People somehow attempt to get rid of the fourth dimension.
- Zig-Zagged: The fourth dimension is particularly enigmatic, and consensus keeps on going between whether it exists or not.
- Enforced: "We need our book's premise to be more... existential. How about a fourth spatial dimension?"
- Lampshaded: "A fourth spatial dimension? That's gonna be confusing."
- Discussed: "It's time we finally get past the third dimension!"
- Conversed: "This is confusing. Kind of like that time we visited the fourth dimension."
- Exploited: Someone uses the fourth dimension to store whatever they might have for use later on.
- Deconstructed: Physics and the like get extremely complicated, thus making complex life highly improbable.
- Reconstructed: That doesn't mean organisms native to the fourth dimension can't thrive.
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