Journey to the 248th dimension
Map of weird mathematical entity may point way for string theory.
A map of one of the strangest and most complex entities in mathematics should be a powerful new tool for both mathematicians and physicists pursuing a unified theory of space, time and matter.
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This contributes to the superb advance of string theory and hopefully to the ultimate theory of our universe. Thanks for the patience and extraordinary effort of this individuals. I am still very much interested in string theory and supersymmetry and I will definetely follow up.
Posted by: Marlyn | March 20, 2007 09:56 PM
Sir: This is very appealing in terms of a contrast between the visually perceivable and the mystiques of hidden unknowns, deeper meanings .-hidden symmetry and connections in terms of motions, of mathematical operations.. One might easily envision how one might think to apply it to a real world of motions and life.
However, and still with a great respect for those drawn to puzzles and the unknown, I wish to quote something from Einstein that I think is applicable:
"Geometry predicates nothing about relations of real things, but only geometry together with the purport of physical laws can do so... The idea of the measuring rod and the idea of the clock contained with it in the theory of relativity do not find their exact correspondence in the real world. It is also clear that the solid body and the clock do not in the conceptual edifice of physics play the part of irreducible elements, but that of composite structures, which may not play any independent part in theoretical physics."
One might think, and I appreciate the great deal of “sweat and struggle” involved in this approach”, to be able to find new relation among things from what already is postulated and translated to be of the natural world, to piece together, as must endeavor so from any approach, motion, biological evolution from the inert, to establish a unity. An artist can always state that his accomplishment is a product of his life experiences, “struggle and sweat”, in that one must not become too engaged in the pursuit of an actual truth from mathematical orientations in his testing and play that he might become too obsessed with unlieing numbers than the oddities and processes that govern the world. One can be deceived from the corners and interactions and apparent connections of a 'mathematical kaleidoscope' in that it resembles alone and with empirical comparison, those(non-linear = not obvious with the line of sight) facts of the world for which at the outset we had no connecting thoughts to ourselves.
I am taking this opportunity to relate my view as I hold it of very high priority that technology based on the economic, in its approaches to the environment is not unable to effectively change the “temperature” of it, to fit its’ own cognitive perceptions and rationally assembled premonitions, associated with empirical test, to a lifting bootstraps level with a resulting blinded view i.e. “the temperature is what I thought it was and measures the same”, but is not an unbiased sample-voted to rule, ruled to vote from an economically biased and compulsive, linearly presented numbers racket looking over the shoulders of a self supported official number racket club.
I do not intend this description as excessively sarcastic or ridiculing, but it is a matter of the life and breath of every individual on this earth in that he knows that a contrivance can aid him up a hill, but he would not vote to change the actual level or accept the say so of anyone; a question, also, of a real level, its potential vulnerability to description, not arise to his contemplations.
In establishing theory of life and matter, in the beating of life into mathematics, in birth, neither the baby nor the obstetrician often recall the events, yet either on later witness or memory can make statements about it emerging from, or emerging to no more than the same and supplying in reality no bearing on scientific advancement, the mystiques of life, but only on bearing babies; insights this way should not be interpreted-renamed as something else. Comical, perverse and a little pathetic, is the inclination to bear 'scientific experiments' in terms of cloning living things. If one reflects with a strong common sense, these two different acts are mutually exclusive. In analogy, the energy from matter in the bombing of Japan during World War II might had supplied enough energy to light all of the lights of the earth for a time, and if one were to construe that light-electrical energy is an apriori need for continuation-it is very expensive if not self defeating in light of the absense of an initial understanding of nature and a potential ability to cause ourselves harm resulting from abuse by means of exploitation.
Posted by: Marvin Kirsh | March 25, 2007 08:04 AM
It is perfectly possible that the geometry of a torus could be transformed into one of a cylinder at the energies and extreme conditions in a blackhole so that the one end of the cylinder is at the centre of one blackhole with the other end being at the centre of another blackhole.There is thus a possibility of material transfer across blackholes.
moreover time itself may appear as cyclic rather than linear under the influence of energetic transformations .Topology of time needs to be revisited at such energies and transformations under its influence
Posted by: sureshkumar.s | June 5, 2007 05:12 AM