🧄Why a Cube's Diagonal Angle Never Changes

The calculation for the angle between two space diagonals of a cube, spanned by vectors e1,e2\ell e_1, \ell e_2, and e3\ell e_3, relies on defining two representative diagonals, such as d1=(1,1,1)d_1=\ell(1,1,1) and d2=(1,1,1)d_2=\ell(-1,1,1), and using the inner product formula. By computing the dot product d1d_1. d2=2d_2=\ell^2 and noting that the magnitude of each diagonal is d=3\|d\|=\ell \sqrt{3}, the relationship d1d_1. d2=d1d2cos(θ)d_2=\left\|d_1\right\|\left\|d_2\right\| \cos (\theta) immediately yields the equation 2=32cos(θ)\ell^2=3 \ell^2 \cos (\theta). The key takeaway is that the side length \ell cancels out, proving that the angle between any two space diagonals is the constant value θ=arccos(1/3)\theta=\arccos (1 / 3) (approximately 70.5370.53^{\circ} ), which is independent of the cube's size and represents a fundamental geometric constant often seen as the tetrahedral angle.

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