Endlessly Expanding Diminuitions

Dimension needs a definition,

And definitions need boundaries—

As soon as you think of dimension,

Thoughts move in myriad directions,

Which must mean traversing dimensions,

Finding boundaries to push around.

Let’s say you can begin with a point—

Could be one or zero dimensions—

You can, from a one-dimensional

Point, find your way to a tesseract.

You just had to begin with a point,

Didn’t you? Corpus Hypercubus.

No matter how many dimensions

You mean by n, by n you must mean

An idea with a definition,

Boundaries, its own n dimensions.

N degrees of freedom, meanwhile n

Coordinates for each location,

But not in Cantor’s intuition.

Then, invariance of dimension

Grew in dimension. Definitions

Grew more necessary, numerous,

Expanding in every direction.

You can break it or intersect it,

But you’ll fit never the problem back

Into n minus one dimensions.

N dimensions keep kinds of prisons

Pinning slaves to dimensions in them.

A prison has many dimensions

And every one of them a prison.