The discipline of designing and constructing systems that purposefully incorporate or manipulate extra dimensions. This is engineering where your CAD software has more slider bars than you have spatial senses. It involves calculating stresses in hyper-volumes, designing components that have stability in 3D but function in 4D, and creating interfaces that allow 3D minds to control higher-dimensional constructs (often through heavy metaphor and AI mediation). It's building what you cannot fully visualize.
*Example: "The stargate project isn't about wormholes; it's N-Dimensional engineering. They're constructing a stable filament in a compactified 5th dimension, creating a shortcut through our 3D space. The chief engineer says the math is fine, but the construction drones keep disappearing into 'angles that shouldn't exist.'"
by Abzugal January 30, 2026
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