The shape of the Tesseract -- known as a hypercube -- is a real concept. It's basically a cube within a cube, a three-dimensional cube with a fourth dimension added to it. Cranford used a fancy molecular dynamics program to see if he could figure out the molecular construct of such a cube, and then calculated the cube's material strength to find out how powerful Thanos would have to be to crush it. It's obviously way more complicated than that, but the point is that Cranford managed to create a stable carbon arrangement which he called hypercubyne.

Cranford determined that a force of 42,000 tons would be required to squash the hypercubyne/Tesseract into crumbs. That roughly translates to the combined grip strength of 750,000 average U.S. men. He then calculated the proportional relationship between grip strength and lifting capacity, and concluded that Thanos can lift 120 million pounds. That's a little heavier than the Titanic.
These findings raise some alarming questions. How did Thanos not knock the Avengers' heads off in combat? This guy has the grip strength of all the men in Philadelphia combined. How did he not break everyone's necks, even by accident? And how does he masturbate? Is his dick stronger than Texas? Literally, all the rest of our questions are about this, and we have so, so many ...
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