higher dimensional spheres are so weird to think about
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their "volume" as a fraction of that of the hypercube gets smaller and smaller to the point that in 24 dimensions, the best possible way to pack hyperspheres together (which was proven to be the best possible in 2017) fills only 0.19% of space with hyperspheres and all the rest is empty
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