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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 21 points 4 months ago

No, being rotated in the 4th dimension and plopped back down into the third dimension would be horrible and it wouldn't surprise me if it killed you. For one, it would absolutely feel like a Lovecraftian nightmare. Your right arm is now your left. Your heart is in a different side of your chest. The "you" you see in the mirror will be the "you" you've seen in photographs. But look into chirality in chemistry. Your body would suddenly have tons of molecules that are a mirror image of what they should be and work with the mirror images of molecules they used to. Everything already in you would get flipped, but you might be on a ticking clock if you aren't able to get the chiral opposites of necessary amino acids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)