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Six-Dimensional Space-Time Theory
eldavojohn writes "PhysOrg is covering an interesting year-old paper that proposes an alternative six-dimensional theory of space and time. George Sparling's proposition, based on Einstein's general relativity and Elie Cartan's triality, is a twistor space (which I've only read of in Roger Penrose's latest work). The gist is that space-time is modeled not by four dimensions but by six, and that the extra two dimensions are time-like. Sparling is hoping that tests from the Large Hadron Collider will help prove his theory. The paper is heavy but the PhysOrg article summarizes it nicely."
Time is four-dimensional, so there are 7 dimensions! So sayeth the TimeCube!
If ignorant of the almighty
Time Cube Creation Truth,
you deserve to be killed.
Killing you is not immoral -
but justified to save life on
Earth for future generations.
Academic taught singularity
within universe of opposites,
has lobotomized your mind.
You are Enslaved by Word -
no whip or shackle required.
You do not have the freedom
to discuss/debate Time Cube.
Academia destroys your mind
by suppressing opposite view.
God equals self masturbation
of mind - for opposites create.
You are educated singularities.
YOU DESERVE DEATH -
FOR SINGULARITY EVIL
in the Universe of Opposites.
No God Can Make Himself
as singularity is death, not life.
Planets nor human are entities
as they equal Zero Opposites.
You are educated singularity
stupid and evil, unfit for life
in the Universe of Opposites.
I bet you'll never guess which movie that came from (googling is cheating!)
My god, it's full of time!
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Sparling wrote:
In physics, the idea of a spinor stems from the finding that spectral lines of atoms seem to behave as if the angular momentum of the particles radiating photons was in half-integral units of the quantized spin (whose size is determined by Planck's constant). This was fully explained by Dirac's famous theory of the electron, which led him to successfully predict the existence of the positron.Or as Three 6 Mafia put it: "I'm ridin' spinors, I'm ridin' spinors, they don't stop..."
Now there are three ways we can have dupes.
(watch me get modded down for mentioning Dig)
I just want to set an upper limit before everyone goes crazy.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Einstein was a fraud in every sense of the word, and his supposed theory of general relativity (which he stole) has been proven wrong, time and time again. The question everyone should be asking themselves is: why is general relativity still being taught if it's 100% false? The answer is simple: the powers that be do NOT want the masses to understand the true nature of the universe because if we did understand it, limitation and impossibility wouldn't exist. It's funny how the Theory of General Relativity came out at the same time as Nikola Tesla's Dynamic Theory of Gravity - Tesla was, and is, the only true genius that ever walked the face of this earth, and it's such a shame that history has totally forgotten the man who could have saved us all.
Parent was modded 'flambait'?
I'm glad they're time-like dimentions! I'd hate to find out they're orthogonal directions, and suddenly have to worry about all my organs spilling out into the v and w dimensions. Or start filling a glass with water, only to discover I have to keep pouring until I had 1/8pi*r^4*height units of water. It'd just be inconvenient!
Speaking of which, anyone interested in some rather funny dimensional hijinks, you might want to check out Flatland the classic book, or one of the movies being made about the story.
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I only read those dimension articles on Wikipedia because of the pretty animated gifs.
Hmm 6 dimensions, 3 of space and 3 of time...
Definately sounds like Jacob Burrough's theory (from the book by R A Heinlein)
Great, not only do we have to figure out how to travel through time, but now we also have to figure out how to travel through uime and vime!
I read the article, but I really don't understand the consequences of the theory. What would it mean for there to be more than one time dimension?
I'll have to settle for completely off-the-cuff, wild speculation: Could that help explain human temporal perception (you can "feel" time slow down or time flies by when having fun)? Can our consciousness span more or less of these other dimensions of time at need? Would this help explain the apparent causality problem of neuromuscular control (humans seem able to send the neural command to catch the ball before our senses could have delivered the signal that it should be caught)?
Could the existence of extra time dimensions have implications regarding the existence of free will?
How does this relate to the "one-graviton level" for quantum collapse / observation (if at all)?
As you can see, I'm just an amateur toying with the Duplo blocks of popularized physics, but I still find the notion fascinating.
An interesting claim made in the paper, but not mentioned in the PhysOrg writeup, is that this theory provides a co-ordinate free definition of chaos in spacetime. That is, for usual definitions of a dynamical system being chaotic, there is a preferred time co-ordinate describing the evolution of the system. General relativity, on the other hand, is remarkable because there is no single preferred co-ordinate system; everything works independently of the particular choice of co-ordinates to work in. As far as I can glean from the paper (it is very very dense) they simply define a chaotic system with regard to properties of the Chi operator, and claim that this conforms to the more restricted usual definition. This is far from clear to me -- I'm struggling just to get my head around their definition of Chi, let alone any implications of it -- but it would certainly be very interesting if true.
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it remember me of the chaos magician
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I think I may have already realized this some time ago while on LSD
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OK - I'm just messing with you. I have no idea - but I looked through a textbook at a UC Berkeley bookstore years ago with that title, with the picture of the logarithmic spiral, and liked the idea.
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very interesting! i've always found the understanding of time and space (and in particular their relation to each other) interesting, being that i'm a trekkie and all...
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What's that?? *SIX* whole dimensions? Why, when I was starting out, we only had three dimensions, and we liked it that way. Length, width, and height were good enough for us, and they should be good enough for anyone. Why, we sometimes had to work in just *two* dimensions -- *and they were both length*! You didn't hear *us* complaining about relativity or quantum effects. If it can't be expressed in a Newtonian physics, it shouldn't be expressed at all, that's what we said. Pretty soon you'll be inventing time travel and creating causality paradoxes and tearing apart the entire space-time continuum, and *then* where will we be, I ask ya? You young scientists these days, why, you have no idea what proper respect is.
And get off my lawn!
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I thought that my judicious use of the non-existent words "uime" and "vime" would be the first clue that I wasn't very serious.
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Stupid - ignores the Cubic
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That's all well and good but I'm having trouble understanding how Dark Matter manages to fit into these two new "time related" dimensions...
Or to put it succinctly, time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana (thanks Noam).
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As usual, Rod predicted this:
"There is a sixth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area that might be called the Twilight Zone."
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I wonder if anyone came across this: Tenth Dimension
Consider this analogy: if you take a plate and hold it in one hand horizontally whilst twisting it under your arm backwards through 360 degrees, your arm ends up in the air after one rotation, and it needs another 360 degree rotation to get it back to the beginning," he said.
I think I saw that happen to a dude on UFC then he tapped out with his remaining arm.
God spoke to me.
Er, is Physorg in league with the Weekly World News, or is it just me?
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Is there a relatively simple explanation of why we think the space we experience is actually the result of 3 distinct "dimensions"?
Obviously from a practical point of view it is useful for use to measure things using a coordinate system with three sets of perpendicular axes but why do we think that is more than a useful logical construct? Why do we think it tells us that the very nature of the universe really stems from three distinct "dimensions"?
There doesn't seem to be any real distinction between up/down, left/right, and forward/backward. Couldn't they all be something that is part of one "space" dimension?
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Having just read http://www.timecube.com/ for a laugh and then reading the PhysOrg news item, all the references to "ultra-hyperbolic spaces" and rotations read a little too much like Gene Ray's rants to be comfortable. The only thing missing was the obligatory:
Your 4 dimensional space makes you EVIL! SIX dimensional ultra-hyperbole is absolute but ignored by stupid/evil educators.
Without wading through the papers (hey, this is /.) this sounds a lot like Dewey B. Larson's 3-D space/3-D time theories. Mind, I haven't read Larson's stuff since I was in high school (my senior year physics teacher was a fan of his theories.) Maybe he was on to something.
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Especially in the CS crowd. By dimension they don't actually mean that you can move through that space as you do through your familiar Euclidian space. They just mean that there are 4,6 or whatever independent variables describing the conditions of the system... Ever seen a 6 dimensional array? Whohoo.. So that baseball collection you were organizing is also "6-dimensional".
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
This sounds amazingly like the premise of a Heinlein novel, The Number of the Beast, which supposes that there are three dimensions of time as well as three dimensions of space, and that travel is possible on the two axes we normally do not recognize. This allows visiting realities that can be subtly or vastly different from our own, weighted by probability.
It's not a bad concept, but it does get rather silly when the selected locations include Barsoom, Oz, and the "Future History" realms of Lazarus Long. A bit like the plot in Frank Zappa's "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary", it attempts so much that none of it really comes off right. The main difference is that Zappa intended it that way (and backed it up with interesting, non-repeating music) and I don't think Heinlein did. He did intend it to be campy, but it's way beyond that.
I am willing to bet he is neither the first nor the last to propose this, but at least I can point out "prior art" where I see it.
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How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
six-dimensional porn!
*stabs out eyes*
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And stop Biff from using the Almanac! And then we can slide into Toonworld and drop it off!
What is it about Tesla that attracts the kooks?
I, for one, welcome our new six dimensional overlords...
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I've always believed there was more than the one dimension of time we experience. I never really could back it up, it just made sense that if space had more than one dimension time probably did as well.
It reminds me of 8 dimensional Extended Heim Theory:
/Joss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory
This theory is under test by ESA & NASA and Berkeley (M.Tajmar work).
In this six dimensional universe .. do they have a PIZZA HUT that delivers?
.. its 30 mins or its free .. add a bit of extra dimensional theory and my pizza should arrive in less than 30 mins .. and still be hot and fresh.
.. thats a universal theory worth waiting for . . . .
;)
I mean
NOW
May even tip
Now if only I can learn how to use those 2 extra time dimensions, I might get the extra month that I need to complete the project before it is due tomorrow.
Great news for project planners everywhere!
How do we redraw gantt charts to represent these extra dimensions ?
There are bijections between R^n and R^p. More
generally, if E is an infinite set E and E^2
have the same cardinal.
There are even continuous surjections from
R to R^p (Peano curve).
What does not exist is homeomorphisms between R^p and R^n,
there are no continuous bijections from R^p to R^n
with a continuous inverse (if p different from n). R^n and R^p
are not topologically equivalent.
Maybe it could be described that for each vector of space there is a concommitant time dimension which is intertwined with it, so it could also be described as three dimensions and each of those dimensions is split into its own space dimension and time dimension.
Wow, is the PS3 really so advanced? Now we know what that funky controller is for...
Hasn't anyone heard most physicists say that time is an illusion of motion?
Chuck Norris being the first two.
This was Robert Heinlein's throwaway theory of 3 space and 3 time dimensions in "The Number of the Beast". Just throwing it in before someone brings up some anime with the idea.
Can anybody explain this in terms we can understand, like rubber sheets and spinning balls?
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I vaguely recall reading a statement that more than one time-like dimension would mess up the concept of entropy in general and especially the second law of thermodynamics.
Never came around to actually reading the paper, but maybe someone else did?
Well, what about a slight point of view shift instead ?
Do you ever think of yourself "well, this object is 3m away on the x axis, 4m away of the y axis, and 5 m away on the z axis" ? Or do you just think to yourself "this object is about 7m away" ? And then, your other senses tell you what direction the object is ?
So why assume whatever it is we call "time" is actually time, when instead it could be just as well the "time-like total distance", and we just lack the sensory equipment to differentiate (or orientate ourselves) in the 3-dimensional time-like variable ?
Now, we are moving almost in the realm of supernatural here (won't say tinfoilhattery... yet), but what if all "extraordinary abilities" some people pretend they have MIGHT actually be real to a certain degree, and the only thing differentiating a "normal" person from "them" is that they can somehow perceive at least one or both of the other "time-like" dimensions... and even "manipulate" matter independently alongside each of them ? To somebody who lacks the proper senses, it can appear as something impossible, when in fact it's just something unperceivable ?
Well, it's just a far-fetched theory, but who knows ?
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I've been rather fascinated with Peter Carroll's hypothesis of 6-dimensional space-time for a while now. He has a few dozen articles up at specularium.org
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iirc he suggests that 3-dimensional space is curved in one of the extra time dimensions to form a finite, boundless 4-dimensional hypersphere, and 1-dimensional time is curved in the other extra time dimension to form a finite, boundless 2-dimensional circle.
He makes some falsifiable predictions based on his theory (from http://specularium.org/index.php?option=com_conte
9. Predictions from the Hyperwarp 6D model
a) No more generations of particles can exist. (Subject only to falsification)
b) No Higgs particle exists. (Subject only to falsification)
c) As it seems that no known natural process except, perhaps, neutron star or black hole collisions could cause a sufficiently large quantity of matter to undergo a sufficient acceleration to produce graviton bosons in detectable quantities, we shall never easily detect gravity waves (subject only to falsification).
d) The principle of t-axis neutrality does permit the existence of a number of exotic bosons corresponding to configurations such as :
d-quark/positron, or d-antiquark/electron or any type of quark/antineutrino or antiquark/neutrino
Within Hyperwarp 6D theory a "leptoquark boson" does not really represent a fifth force of nature, anymore than weak (W-, W+, or Zo) bosons represent anything other than a special case of electromagnetism. See Leptoquarks and Neutron Stars paper.
e) Spacetime singularities larger than fundamental particles do not exist. The quantisation of particle properties in terms of spacetime curvature implies a quantisation of spacetime itself and the top quark represents the maximum possible curvature at any point.
f) Neutrinos can annihilate against neutrinos in head on collisions. Antineutrinos can likewise annihilate against antineutrinos. Such collisions could create photon pairs or pairs of neutrinos of other generations. This controversial proposition lies open to experimental confirmation. It may also contribute a solution to the solar neutrino problem.
Actually, if we were to ever understand the true nature of the universe it would immediately disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre. Some people say that this has already happened...
(Thank you Douglas Adams.)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Einstein he may not be, but the author of the Time Cube holds some great patents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Ray
Apparently some people, erm, scientists, forget that time as a dimension is just a metaphor meant to ease explanation of certain mathematical formulas, as found in special and general relativity.
This obsession with throwing in more and more dimension until it appears to make sense is not going to take us anywhere. String theory is already at 12 dimensions in some of its versions. There's talk about more time dimensions, "curled up" dimensions and other such nonsense.
The only fact there are such a multitude of "multidimensional" theories, each one assuming hundreds of untested things in the name of arriving at proper results on the bottom line, says, that most likely none of them hold ground in reality.
Not that you can blame them, science work when you can test and prove/disprove your theory, on quantum level, and trying to create a model for intangible things, this is infuriatingly difficult.
come on lets get real. theres a tad bit of silliness in it about einstein being a fraud, but you, as well as i, very well know that the other parts of that about tesla are damn true.
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First off, aren't the scientists going to feel pretty silly if it turns out they should have stayed closer to old Einstein all along. I'd pay good money to see Brian Greene stand up at a conference and say (in church lady voice) "String theory? Never Mind"
Secondly, this means, of course, that we're all going to need new watches. Extrapolating on our current design, the new clocks will be truly 3-dimensional, consisting of 6 wildly flailing hands poking out from a central point. We'll have the big hand, the little hand, the second hand, the other big hand, the other little hand, and the other second hand.
Kid are going to love that! "Johnny, what time is it?" "Looks like half past a quarter till 3PM after 7AM Teacher"
And when you ask a physicist what time it is, be prepared for a 10-minute response involving matrices and vectors. Actually, I gave up asking physcists what time it was long ago for this very reason. So maybe nothing much will change at all.
The dimensions may not be quite what you think. This paper sounds to me very like technology which is already being used in games engines and robotics applications, eg for lighting models and collision detection.
The idea is that there are various things that make rotations of objects much nicer to handle than translations. But if you add some extra dimensions, you can turn the translations into rotations. It's to do with conformal projection. Translations on a 2D plane are difficult to handle (at least in the framework of Clifford algebra), but if you map that plane onto the surface of a sphere in 3D, then you can identify the 2D translations with rotations on the surface of the 3D sphere. Similarly, you can exchange 3D translations for rotations in 4D, if you create a new dimension which allows you to have an origin for your rotations which is lifted outside "real" 3D space. It turns out to be nice to be able to do rotations about a point at infinity, too, which you can achieve by doing the same trick to go up to 5D. A consequence is that each no-D point in 3D gets represented by a 2D surface in the 5D, a line gets turned into a 3D hypersurface, etc.
The nice thing about rotations is that you can do them with spinors, and you can use spinors to rotate lines and planes directly without having to break them down into points. In the 5D system you can also use geometric algebra to compute directly whether and how different hypersurfaces meet, again without having to compute points and normals and things, which is good for collision detection.
It looks to me that this article is doing pretty much the same trick, turning 4D into 6D, that the geometric algebra people are using turning 3D into 5D.
Here's a paper from a group at Amsterdam university discussing some of this stuff, using it for a ray-tracing program. See also the previous two papers in the series, here. They've also just got a book out, "Geometric Algebra for Computer Science" (links to Amazon etc).
There's also a company called Geomerics based in Cambridge in England that has used the technology to develop a new lighting engine, which it has just released for the Unreal platform.
Can I charge 3 times as much ?
Looks like he just worked around the time to get popular. It was found by me first :)
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"c) As it seems that no known natural process except, perhaps, neutron star or black hole collisions could cause a sufficiently large quantity of matter to undergo a sufficient acceleration to produce graviton bosons in detectable quantities, we shall never easily detect gravity waves (subject only to falsification)."
Gravitational waves, rather. Gravity waves are an atmospheric phenomenon!
But what I really wanted to ask: what do you mean by 'easily detect'? Is he suggesting that the LISA mission (http://lisa.nasa.gov, a large interferometer in space) is doomed to failure? Or is he saying that any gravitational waves emitted by a lower energy system (say, the Earth orbiting the Sun) are to minuscule to detect?
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Imagine upto 10th Dimension.
URL: http://www.tenthdimension.com/
It has a very good video to make one understand the dimensions upto 10th dimension.
All of that may have various degrees of truth to it, but you're being quite unfair by not mentioning that another key factor was that the things Tesla actually accomplished and demonstrated, many of which have found their way into our current common base of technology, were quite spectacular in terms of utility, innovation, and being leading edge for the time.
Many researchers, academic and independent, spend their entire lives trying to come up with just one useful idea. Tesla produced them regularly and dependably.
I often wonder what Tesla would have come up with if he was living and working in our current technological / scientific environment. In my view, the man seemed to think so far "out of the box" that you couldn't even find the box from where he was.
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string theory proposes 11 dimensions, and while im not quite clear on how they all work, the extra dimensions have been presented on the science channel as a kind of "backstage" or "mechanical room" on which the universe is maintained, and that gaining an understanding of the properties of each dimension could lead to the holy grail "grand unification" equation.
(for those not familiar, the grand unification equation is an extension of the equations/theorems which allow us to convert between electromagnetic and kinetic forces, and would allow us to translate between all 4 major forces by adding gravity and the force which holds atomic nuclei together)
because of how new string theory is, i dont think there are enough findings to distinguish weather this new hypothesis might be a subset of string theory, though i could be wrong.
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6 Dimentions, that means I'll have to rebuild this TARDIS from scratch!
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With a force system based on particles dispersing in a straight space line, a three-dimensional system gives you a square-law relationship for force.
If you have 2 dimensions you have a linear law and you don't get orbits (or clumping). Higher than three space dimensions and you cannot have a stable orbit.
Three gives a square law and that allows stable orbits.
Sounds kinky.
I have a truly marvellous proof that this proposition...
s^n = x^n + y^n + z^n - t^n - u^n - v^n
... is impossible. Alas this margin is too narrow to contain it.
...but what exactly do we gain out of it?
I'm not asking for some practical application. I know, a lot of people today ask for a practical application as soon as someone wants to do research and doesn't accept that someone has to lay the basics down first, that someone had to do the research for coherent light so we can now enjoy DVDs, but what insight does this give us?
I do have to admit that I didn't read that paper (calling that a paper is like calling the NY phonebook a leaflet...). I do have plans for the rest of my life. Does it actually add anything "useful" to our knowledge about the universe? Does it offer a new angle of approach for other fields of research? Does it open some door, does it give us any insight?
I mean, it's wonderful when people ponder the universe and how it works, but this seems to me like an example for research gone bananas. Research for the sake of research is all right, like I said, someone has to lay down the foundation, but what could be built on that foundation?
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Ignignokt: You and your third dimension.
Frylock: What about it?
Ignignokt: Oh nothing, it's cute. We have five.
Err: Th-thousand.
Ignignokt: Yes, five thousand.
Err: Don't question it!
This made me remember the plot for the LucasArts adventure game "The Dig".
(Warning: spoiler follows.)
The aliens there had discovered much time ago the two extra time dimensions, and a way to transition from space-time to 3-time (I don't remember whether this is the in-game name for the concept, but you get the idea). That worked, they discovered that in 3-time they are practically immortal, and as a result the whole alien species transitioned, losing the ability to come back, since there was no one left in space-time to activate the portal. After some centuries in 3-time, however, the aliens perceived it was a mistake, due to their livings losing all meaning since in 3-time nothing changes, ever. In the end, the humans discover this history, reopen the portal, and allow the aliens to come back into standard space-time.
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If you ask me, Peter Carroll seems to have borrowed much from Dr. Gene Ray's "Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube".
I suggest you read Slashdot
Ah yes...extra time-like dimensions. If only they would have explained it that way in English class!
There's a hard sci-fi novel out there called Twister that talks about having 6 dimensions, although the author takes liberty by allowing the main character to travel into a "shadow dimension" that he's able to open using a device he invented (by accident IIRC).
Just looked it up on amazon.com, it's by John Cramer: http://www.amazon.com/Twister-John-Cramer/dp/04505 51172/ref=sr_1_11/103-3660020-3447003?ie=UTF8&s=bo oks&qid=1176908792&sr=1-11
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Personally, I don't think anyone's theories on the nature of the Universe are "complete and correct." At least not yet. Tesla was, and is, the only true genius that ever walked the face of this earth, and it's such a shame that history has totally forgotten the man who could have saved us all. Saying "he's the greatest" is not the best way to claim the correctness of a man's scientific achievements. For what it's worth, Nikola Tesla is far from forgotten, with over a million hits on Google.
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I remember a PBS show about showing how Magnetism an Electricity have the same properties, given a 11+ dimensional universe; The mathematicians involved choked on demonstrating how the same approach could be applied to Gravity. It looks like as "Time" proceeds, Mathematics is collecting more tools to refine our understanding of the universe.
Just look at my nickname - I've thought there were 6 all along!
*ducks from rotten tomatoes*
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massless
Cause someone ripped off her husband's Number of the Beast .
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Now there are three ways we can have dupes.
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Fuck the weasels! I use all my mod points to cancel out 'underrated' with 'overrated' and vice-versa.
To be sure, George Sparling himself apparently didn't claim anything of the sort, Slashdot was just putting words in his mouth, as usual.
Delta is the 4th letter in the Greek alphabet, much like the letter D is the 4th letter of our alphabet.
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Wha?! Numerology?! 6 is twice (2) as much as three (3) ...
23!?!?!
And now you find yet another fnord application of the law of fives.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
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And all I need to do is attach actuators to a gyroscope and start pushing it around.
Or how about two smallish black holes contained within strong magnets. I guess those could be considered quite sophisticated gyros, eh?2^3 * 31 * 647
Seem to remember too many years ago, a young children's book - Hope for the Flowers - that described exactly such a mental state.
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I'll read TFA tomorrow-up. Or maybe tomorrow-right or tomorrow-out. With three time dimensions I'm sure I'll get around to it in at least one of them. But this is really going to play havoc with verb tenses.
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
Can we start calling the spatial dimensions space, tpace and utace? :-)
Dimensions 5 and 6 are Time Velocity and Time Acceleration respectively. Thus explaining what happens when time seems to pass faster when you zone out staring at dust motes floating in a sunbeam ie. time slows abruptly. By the same token, it also explains how time accelerates towards the end of an exam.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
You are correct. I was not. Somebody give this guy some mod points.
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.
I was wondering if maybe you had recently been dumped by a tri-Delt recently and decided to label them as the beast in revenge! ;)
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Quoting from the article:
"The key difference between spinors and non-spinors is their behavior under rotations: typically, non-spinorial (integer-spin) particles return to their initial value under a 360-degree (or 2-radian) rotation; however, the spinorial (half-integer-spin) fermions actually change sign under a 360-degree rotation, requiring a full 720-degree rotation to get back to their initial values. This is completely foreign to our naive idea of how rotations work, and yet it is a basic part of reality.
"Consider this analogy: if you take a plate and hold it in one hand horizontally whilst twisting it under your arm backwards through 360 degrees, your arm ends up in the air after one rotation, and it needs another 360 degree rotation to get it back to the beginning," he said.
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This leaves me thinking that the half-spin fermions are actually rotated using a 'mobius-strip' model.
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I read a blurb in a science mag awhile ago. A mathematician turned entomologist was studying bees, and in their dance motions found patterns similar to six-dimensional mathematics which she had done a thesis on or something. She surmised that the bees' dances could be understood as conveying 6 dimensional data.
Interesting...
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