ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Hypersurface

Imagine a flat piece of paper, like a postcard. You can fold it in half to make a line, right? Now imagine you could fold it again and make a crease that's at a right angle to the first one. You've just made a corner!

Now imagine you could keep folding the paper infinitely. You could make really complex shapes that still exist on just two dimensions (length and width).

A hypersurface is like that, but instead of folding a piece of paper, we're talking about a mathematical object with many, many more dimensions. It's like a shape that can exist in many different directions and dimensions beyond our usual 3D world.

Scientists use hypersurfaces to study all kinds of things like the behavior of particles, the shape of space, and even the structure of the universe itself.