“Göbeklitepe,” pondered Ayşe, “something’s going on… it’s as if we are rediscovering rather than discovering for the first time.”

“Indeed, interesting,” responded T, “ponder upon the mathematical technique of analysing physical objects in more than three spatial dimensions. There is formal notation to describe objects beyond just points, lines, planes and volume; for example, notation to describe a tetrahedron in more than 3 physical dimensions. A Swiss mathematician, Ludwig Schläfli (15 January 1814 – 20 March 1895), gave us Schläfli Symbols…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Schl%C3%A4fli …

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lat7h/blog/posts/219.html

…. a mathematical notation system for dealing with higher dimensional objects in formal mathematical notation, allowing mathematicians to deal with hyper dimensional mathematics without which relativity and quantum mechanics would not exist.

T illustrated a basic example for Arther and Ayşe to contemplate: a cube has 3 squares around each vertex and is represented by Schläfli symbol (4,3}.

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