As the 3-D fad waned in 1960, producer Michael Todd Jr. tried to take the moviegoer into the fourth dimension.

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"We're proposing that the fourth dimension is time and that over time static objects will transform and adapt, " he told the BBC.

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Its characters cowpokes, anarchists, plutocrats, private eyes, coked-up undergraduates discourse learnedly on alchemy, electromagnetism, the existence of a fourth dimension and the theories of Nikola Tesla.

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You have a girlfriend named Alma, who has a long tender horse neck and a big Dominican ass that seems to exist in a fourth dimension beyond jeans.

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But describing any "event" requires specifying a time a fourth dimension.

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And it's also adds a fourth dimension, of time.

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Building on an idea floated earlier this year by theoretical physics guru and Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek of MIT, a team led by UC Berkeley researcher Tongcang Li has created a schematic for a crystal with a fourth dimension -- movement in time.

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