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Some people asked me what the 5th dimension entailed and how Cooper was able to talk to himself in the tesseract. I'll explain the dimensionality below:

The zeroth dimension is a point .

The 1st dimension is a line __________

The 2nd dimension is a plane. Imagine a piece of paper

The 3rd dimension is a cube.

The 4th dimension is time. We perceive the 4th dimension in cross sections or frames. Imagine a movie reel. On the reel there are single images that project a movie when played together. The 4th dimension sees the entire movie all at once.

Now consider this, a line can connect two points. A plane can connect a line, a cube connects planes. The 4th dimension sees the cubes from all iterations of time. Or if the cube was a flower instead, it would see it from seed to flowering all at once. I dont really know what the 5th dimension entails but those beings can traverse time and space. Since a higher order being can move around in a lower dimension. (A line, a 1D object, connects points, which are in the zeroth dimension)

So this means that Cooper, as a 5D being in the can traverse time and space like was shown in the Tesseract scene. So essentially 5D beings "always exist" in time and have no birth or death.

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